Why talk about cultural diversity in schools by Teacher Academy

integrations

2017-02-20 14:57:58 UTC

Francesco, Italy

2017-02-20 15:45:43 UTC

I'm an Italian teacher in secondary school. In those years I've had many newly arrived in my classroom. I think it's important to give them the same opportunities to learn and applicate the knowledges.

Inclusion and Integration the Key-words - Marcella - Italy

minnie14 — 2017-02-20 16:01:30 UTC

I think t school mission is to integrate pupils from other countries and cultures .Teachers must allow these students to live fully integrated in our classroom ,give them the opportunity to learn in the most suitable way. Teachers training is important to realize the teaching- learning process. Our classes are multilinguistic and multiethnic . I want to learn about cultural diversity and what is the best for my students

Marina: differencies are precious and special!

2017-02-20 16:08:00 UTC

It's important to learn about cultural diversity because recently in our classes there are some students with different backgrounds which are important for their lives and their growth: we are teachers and we have to give them a right weight. I agree with Alicia when she remembers to us that in school we are building society of tomorrow and a civil society surely could profit or benefit from diversity!

ALINA POPA-ROMANIA

popalina21 — 2017-02-20 16:20:35 UTC

When we know about diversity we can ephatise easier with different kind of students and this will help in out horison on teaching and undersatnding and approaching methods.

Maria Intrieri, Roma-ItalyVorrei imparare a trasmettere sicurezza e senso di accoglienza anche a quei ragazzi che non capendo ancora nulla della mia lingua, si presentano smarriti e spesso demotivati ad integrarsi in modo adeguato. Vorrei imparare a trasmettere loro l’importanza della collaborazione tra diverse culture con l’obiettivo di rafforzare le nostre capacità di azione nel mondo. Vorrei riuscire a trovare il modo giusto per far capire che non sempre il cambiamento nella nostra vita è qualcosa di traumatico. Vorrei imparare a trasmettere serenità e fiducia.

mri5 — 2017-02-20 17:10:20 UTC

FRANCESCA: THE DIFFERENCES ARE THE FORCE THAT RULED THE WORLD

2017-02-20 17:11:18 UTC

I am convinced that teach the inclusion and cultural differences to children of kindergarten can be an opportunity to grow conscious and responsible adults.
I would like to convey to my students respect for others and the curiosity to learn from other cultures. at the same time I would like to teach migrants to become responsible citizens.
the differences should be the strength of the society and not element of scorn and derision.

Maria: today there are more and more student from different culture, so we need to learn what to do for their integration.

2017-02-20 17:14:39 UTC

Dora, Greece

ntanouth — 2017-02-20 17:23:28 UTC

Working in a school with a diverse student body can help prepare our students for citizenship in a multicultural democracy.

Francesca - Italy

francescapulvirenti1 — 2017-02-20 17:29:56 UTC

I think diversity may be an enrichment for the whole group They must think that diversity brings a colorful variety in a multicultural group. But at he same time each person is like me, equal to me even if he/she has a different language or culture

Claudia Italy.

2017-02-20 17:30:05 UTC

HI, I'm a primary teacher school. today we leave in a multicultural society and in my school there are many chiledren who come from distant countries. so it's very important to learn the idea of inclusion and
new laboratory or progect for inclusion.

Chiara P. - Italy

possa_ — 2017-02-20 17:33:54 UTC

We must talk about cultural diversity in schools because this is the reality of the future and of globalization. We must not forget the diversity in general.
I think that we are never quite ready to talk about these things at school, we are children of generations in which the different did, and does, fear.

Nicolina La Femina- Italy

2017-02-20 18:05:21 UTC

Hello! I'm Nicolina. I'm from Italy. I live in Pagani (SA). I'm married and I have two sons Carmine and Marco. I teach Italian, Maths, Science, History, Gerography and English in a Primary School. My school is in Florence. In my classes there are some students from Romania and Bulgaria.

Μarianthi Arvanitidou greece

1canislupus22 — 2017-02-20 18:13:40 UTC

Attending a school with a diverse student body can help prepare your child for citizenship in a multicultural democracy.

Cinzia DM-Italy

2017-02-20 18:23:54 UTC

Interculture is our future, we are facing more and more immigrations, we and our children have to know how to live and work with the new people arriving to our country. We have to profit from it and don't waste the chance to know other cultures and spread ours.

Getting prepared for a globalization

mrscarmela — 2017-02-20 18:46:00 UTC

The world has changed and international integration is something we have to deal with almost everyday. It is urgent to get prepared and make the best of the multicultural society we live in. School is the place where young citizens can learn to face this new, changing world; education and teachers are the tools that will help them in this process. It is important, therefore, for teachers to acquire the best intercultural competence.

Working for peace

anna_simonini — 2017-02-20 19:25:10 UTC

If we really want to change the world we live in, we must start from the very young generations: if they think that differences are a gain in the society, in their group, in their class, there's a hope for our future. Anna Laura

Angela, Italy

malgibra — 2017-02-20 19:59:27 UTC

I think that the future is an interracial and intercultural society so we have to work in this direction.

Anna, Italy

anna_quattro — 2017-02-20 20:13:32 UTC

The variety and diversity of cultures constitutes a big asset that can and should be used and enjoyed as a means of understanding one another and of acknowledging our rights as world's citizens.

Antonio Hans

dilegami — 2017-02-20 20:28:24 UTC

Because the new globalized world puts us in front of a multicultural and multilingual

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece

2017-02-20 20:32:56 UTC

The cultural diversity is a consequesce of globalisation. Learning interacting with cultural diverse people is a social skill which is indispensable nowadays. The school is a place where this social skill should be taught among others.
In my opinion cultural diversity has do not only with people from other countries of origin but also with people from the same country of origin, even from the same region....

Mara, Italy

2017-02-20 20:39:32 UTC

Ciao, I'm Mara and I'm an English teacher at secondary schools. I'm working at the moment in Capri island and I'm teaching Italian to a student coming from Sri Lanka. I'm also attending a post graduate degree to teach Italian to foreigners. I wish to work with the migrants expected to arrive in Italy and to help them in feeling at home and integrated in our country!

Elena, Italy

2017-02-20 20:46:27 UTC

Hy, I'm an italian teacher in a secondary school and I'm interested in integration because I have foreign students in my classroom

alessandra, italy

2017-02-20 20:48:43 UTC

i'm interested i integration at school

Ana, Portugal

acfilipe36 — 2017-02-20 21:19:00 UTC

Hello, I´m a primary teacher school and in the past I taught classes in schools with a diversity of cultures. I´m taking the course because is a topic that interests me a lot.
I hope to learn a lot from your experiences and sharing.

Clara, Italy

2017-02-20 21:54:46 UTC

Hi everybody, I'm a teacher for special needs in lower secondary school. I have been teaching for 10 years in the neighborhood of Brescia, in the North of Italy.

Angela Maria, Italy

2017-02-20 22:57:55 UTC

In an increasingly interconnected world, today's young generation need to learn be able to engage in communication with people from a wide range of different cultures and traditions.The school is a place where this social skill should be taught among others

Maria Grazia Licandro, Italy

mglicandro — 2017-02-20 23:09:42 UTC

Alicia in the video it confirmed my idea, namely that diversity is a treasure. In fact, even if each of us is unique, we all need the same "attention", is about learning is about social relations. Just in the school you must instill the culture of diversity, because it is small it is more easily prepared acceptance of others, even in the most egocentric stages of growth. In the human being has an innate need to be with others and schools should educate students to develop appropriate social behaviors. None of the pupils can be neglected his educational needs and the school must customize the learning path according to those needs. This has a positive effect in the students and motivates them to collaborate and learn. Today, with the Internet and the multiplicity of tools available online and offline, everything becomes easier.

Juan Camón from Spain

TeacherJB — 2017-02-20 23:13:37 UTC

Hi everybody, TEFL for adults and newly arrived migrants in my country. With a migrant background myself, I treasure diversity as the most precious asset we've got in our classrooms. Schools should foster and enhance diversity, not the other way round. I am totally against standarizing learning outcomes, results, methodologies, etc. Intercultural projects are central to any educational endeavour.

Bento, Porto

2017-02-20 23:18:42 UTC

I agree with Alicia... the world is much more beautiful when you see in colours... if we only see black and white beauty disappears and only melancholy remains.

Mara, Italy

2017-02-21 06:41:06 UTC

I totally agree with Alicia and I definitely consider diversity the key for being a unique and special person. A multicultural classroom helps students to face daily different way of thinking and acting and to make them growing with the awareness of the ''diversity'' in every human being and in every situation.

Nalan,Turkey

eney — 2017-02-21 07:48:29 UTC

Agree with Alicia .Today our world is a globe maybe first time in its history.And within this globe we cannot lead a decent life by discriminating people.Therefore, we should keep in mind that everybody is an individual and has his-her own values, interests,differences that make them themselves.It is this diversity itself that makes us valuable and human.And only this point of view can make the world a more peaceful place.

IOANNA, GREECE Hi everyone! I am Ioanna and I am from Greece. I have been a Head Teacher since 2007 in 21st Primary School of Athens “Lela Karagianni”. The school is located in one of the most depressed areas of the city centre where the great majority of the residents are economical immigrants and refugees. In our school there are 218 students aged 6-12 years old coming from 22 countries.Since the late 90s and until recently the majority of our students come from families migrant workers mainly from Albania and the former Eastern bloc countries. The last two years because of the crisis in the "Greater Middle East" countries, the demography of our students has changed. Out of the 218 students 115 are children-second generation immigrants (55 from Albania, 20 from Romania 8 out of Africa and the rest from various countries of the former Eastern bloc) and 28 newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers (Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh). Our school’s initiative in educational programmes which promote intercultural education and contribute to the peaceful cohabitation within a multicultural social environment, are not enough to encounter the challenges created by the increased incoming of the newly arrived migrants who don’t speak the Greek language. Most of our classes are similar with Martina’ class from Parma, Italy. I am very glad for thisOur blog http://blogs.sch.gr/21dimath/Our website http://21dimath.weebly.com/

stafilakou67 — 2017-02-21 07:57:40 UTC

Cristina, Italy

2017-02-21 08:14:01 UTC

Our society is changed and is becoming more and more multicultural. I am a teacher in a secondary school and there are many children in our classes who come from distant countries. I think it’s very important that young people, who represent the future, learn that diversity may be an enrichment for everyone. So we have to promote integration, also with people from the same country.

Monica, Italy

2017-02-21 09:21:46 UTC

I agree with Alicia. School is the best educational field where native people and foreign ones can support each other . Besides their diversities can be a good enrichment for all. They can be openminded and can improve their foreign language skills as well as their knowledge about other cultures and traditions.

Maarit, Sweden

2017-02-21 09:40:10 UTC

I take this cource to reflect my own thinking. Needs in the camps are different from ours but people on the camps should get skills there too to prepare them to ordinary life.

Lyuba, Italy

lyuba_centrone91 — 2017-02-21 09:42:35 UTC

I think in the same way of Alicia. School has to be the place of the collaboration, of the discovery, of the debate. In a multicultural class students have the possibility to be engaged in very different topics, very different languages. They can discover different habits from each other and became more aware of their own.

Serdar,Turkey

2017-02-21 09:58:28 UTC

In other words , the first contacts with different people start at schools;so ,being tolerant to others can be learnt there.

Cindy, Belgium

slietjeboontje — 2017-02-21 10:00:01 UTC

In our school, we have 56 different nationalities. Working in this diverse community stimulates us every day to think beyond existing structures. It pushes all of us to do more than the classical teaching and this can be a real challenge sometimes

Tania, Italy.

vitale_tania — 2017-02-21 10:01:35 UTC

I think that looking at our class as a group of individuals is the best approach. Inclusion first of all means and requires knowledge of differences and individualities.

Alessia; Italy

ales_sia — 2017-02-21 10:08:37 UTC

i'm taking this course because I hope to improve my teaching skills.
School is the place where the society of tomorrow is built, so it is very important to teach children how to cooperate with everybody...

Francesco Coppola, Italy

fscocoppola — 2017-02-21 11:20:59 UTC

The cultural diversity is a treasure of experiences and life. The classroom is the ideal place to learn diversity because the students need to know the complexity of the world, they have to know the diversity of behaviors and ethics and they must to learn to respect and accept it.

Nora Calzolaio

2017-02-21 11:37:07 UTC

gabriella Italy

2017-02-21 12:11:36 UTC

what it's said can help us to developp teaching abilitiies and devioces.

Maria Giovannaitaly

2017-02-21 12:20:40 UTC

i'm a italian language teacher in a immigrants school, My student Came From Africa, Pakistan, est Europa

Rosa, Italy

rosa_mazza — 2017-02-21 12:26:10 UTC

I totally agree with Alicia; our society is becoming more and more multicultural and school is a mirror of society, so it's the ideal place to start learning about diversity and to appreciate diversity as a means of cultural enrichment. Personally I'm taking the course to learn new strategies and to share my ideas with people coming from different contexts.

Maria Giovannaitaly

2017-02-21 12:26:25 UTC

i'm a italian language teacher in a immigrants school, My student Came From Africa, Pakistan, est Europa

Andreea-Sweden

2017-02-21 12:28:02 UTC

I take this course because I am interested to discover new ways to deal with cultural diversity in schools. Malmö City from Sweden, there I work, has some schools only with students with a foreign background there the integration process is quite slow because the teachers face many challenges. In the same class can be students from Serbia, Somalia and Afghanistan, for example, which do not share the same traditions, values and ideas so these students can start to fight very easy. Therefore, I think that what Alicia said is totally right. Our students have to learn to live with each other, to acknowledge and respect that are different cultures and religions in this already diverse world.

Georgiana Crivat , Romania

2017-02-21 12:54:09 UTC

I 'm an English teacher and I know it is important to learn about cultural diversity in our classrooms, for many reasons. At any rate, English language learning is foreign culture learning, and, in one form or another, culture has, even implicitly, been taught in the foreign language classrooms.English language learning is comprised of several components, including grammatical competence, communicative competence, language proficiency, as well as a change in attitudes towards one‘s own or another culture. So, I consider Alicia was right, because first of all, our students have to learn to know each other and to live with each other.

Annibale Italy

formeverlab — 2017-02-21 13:09:33 UTC

As youth worker in international level for me is normal to work with young people from different sultures

VAIA EVANGELOUDI

2017-02-21 13:35:44 UTC

I AM TAKING THIS COURSE BECAUSE THERE WILL BE REFUGEE CHILDREN WHO WILL BE COMING TO OUR SCHOOLS DUE TO GREECE BEING THE FIRST PLACE WHERE THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES COME AND THEY CANNOT GO.
THEREFORE A NEW REALITY IS ARISING FOR THE TEACHERS HERE.

Francesco, Italy

2017-02-21 13:57:07 UTC

Hi, I'm Francesco and I'm a primary school teacher. I agree with everybody. I take this course because it's very important learning about cultural diversity in schools. In my classroom there are immigrant students came from Maroc and Romania. So, I think cultural diversity is a type of enrichment for all of us.

Željka, Croatia

2017-02-21 14:09:43 UTC

I think it's important to see the world in different colors. Cultural diversity has increased and will become more and more important in schools. The school is a place where social skills can be taught.

Imma. I agree with Alicia. I think it's very important to learn something about cultural diversity in the students. For this reason I want to emprove my knowledge about this subject.

2017-02-21 14:11:34 UTC

Lucia, Italy

2017-02-21 14:12:23 UTC

Cultural diversity is something we have to deal with everyday. It's very important to know how to manage it in our classrooms and I'm taking the course to discuss about it and to learn something new to face the diversity of every children.

Linda, Finland

lindacarlosruiz — 2017-02-21 14:31:23 UTC

I'm taking this course to learn more about increasing the intercultural competence in my students. I'm very eager to learn from teacher colleagues in other countries what the practice is like in other countries, because I know there are countries with a lot more immigrants than Finland. I think it's very important to teach intercultural competence and respect for other cultures and values in school. For many children the school is the only place they can learn skills like that.

Giusy, Sicilu

2017-02-21 14:33:37 UTC

I'm interested in this course because cultural diversity in school is normal and very common. That's why we don't have to look at the cultural diversity like a lack of something, but like a richness.

Kalliopi, Greece

2017-02-21 15:02:11 UTC

Sometimes I find it so difficult to be in the same room with my beloved ones! You can guess the reasons. I think we all feel the same way from time to time. I try everyday to overcome the small obstacles like lack of understanding, misunderstandings, negative feelings and so on with a lot of patience and personal development through reading, asking for help and advice by the experts. This is the way I feel about cultural diversity. A small step everyday towards accepting differences, breaking stereotypes, being more resilient to all the "stormy" weather coming toward us. Acceptance and understanding are inevitable for survival!

Maria, Greece

mampla78 — 2017-02-21 15:40:30 UTC

Too many different students, too many different cultural backgrounds, but all have the same needs. The challenger for teachers is to smooth the transition of every student to new school reality, make them feel special, respect & accept each other and collaborate with others.

Marco Italy

2017-02-21 15:59:27 UTC

I think that the cultural diversity is wide in our society than i need some instrumets to used in my classroom.

Cristina Italy

cristina_floriddia — 2017-02-21 16:00:18 UTC

I am taking the course because I want improve my behaviour.
I think that we must be ready for the future

Tiziana,Italy

tiziana_aq — 2017-02-21 16:00:55 UTC

I think all teachers should have an intercultural competence as we live in a global world

Hi everybody,

simcardamone — 2017-02-21 16:21:42 UTC

my name is Simona and I am an English teacher in a vocational school in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. I am looking forward to getting new ideas and tools to be able to manage better the intercultural classes I have in my school.
Year after year the number of immigrants is increasing and it is appropriate to get the right competences to face our new world made of different cultures, different religions and languages but with the same feelings, emotions and hopes.

I think today all teachers should have competence about cultural diversity

2017-02-21 16:25:54 UTC

Tina Magnone,Italy

Marie-Christine, France

2017-02-21 16:40:09 UTC

Our society, our pupils have changed: they come from all countries, from all origins. Teaching must change and the teachers are not trained to teach multicultural class students. I am looking forward to getting new ideas and tools to be able to manage better these new classes I

Merja, Finland

2017-02-21 16:45:37 UTC

Our school has on ongoing Erasmus+ -course about racism, tolerance and cultural diversity. Last year, asylum seekers came to our community and some of the children attended the school. That was a new situation for all of us, and we soon realized that we need information and guidance not only in cultural issues, but also in educational aspects. This course is one way to learn about these things.
The world is changing; it is easy to get close to others all around the world - both in person and virtual. Therefore, it is extremely important to learn about other cultures. It is important to know about the differences, but in my opinion, it is even more important to know about the similarities. That way we can avoid predjudice and racism.

Natalia, Greece

natdrak — 2017-02-21 17:30:27 UTC

Claudia, Milan, Italy

2017-02-21 17:38:20 UTC

According to me there's a beauty in the diversity and it becomes each one richer and ables to develop new intercultural and social competences.

Livia Micaela Centonze, Italy

liviacentonze_lc — 2017-02-21 17:38:45 UTC

I'm taking this course because I think that a primary goal of education is to help all students becoming respectful of the multitudes of cultures and people that they interact with. I'd like to share ideas and activities with my colleagues.

Valentina - Italy

valebell80 — 2017-02-21 17:49:36 UTC

In my job experience I tought to gipsy children or to foreign women in a prison. So I think that with this job and with our creativity and professionalism we could help inmates, migrants, gipsy to improve their Italian and this will help them to (re) enter in the society

Nunziata, Italy

zampinonunziata66 — 2017-02-21 18:25:07 UTC

credo che la scuola sia uno dei luoghi, se non il luogo, per costruire una società multietnica, multiculturale, solidale e tollerante. Credo che la diversità sia una ricchezza e non un limite e l'integrazione, che no deve essere assimilazione, è l'unico modo per combattere la marginalità.

Daniele - Italy

danvir — 2017-02-21 18:31:20 UTC

School must be the place where every child should feel accepted. Especially in this period of crisis, schools are asked to educate the future citizens to the values of democracy, such as respect, tolerance and integrations. We should offer a place where students can know each other to understand that diversity is richness

Nora, Italy

noraroxane — 2017-02-21 18:36:34 UTC

I'm taking this course because I think that the children are the future of the word, so it is necessary that they know about the cultural diversity and similarity, if we want create men and women respectful. This is our possibility to fight against the racism and the hate.

Katia - Italia

2017-02-21 19:28:27 UTC

I believe that diversity is a great opportunity but even a difficulty to face everyday in our school, so I hope to receive ideas and competences to teach to "all" my students better then possible and make them happy and peaceful people, women and men able to love every kind of humanity.

Katia - Italy

2017-02-21 19:32:55 UTC

I believe diversity is a great opportunity, but even a difficulty to face in our class, I'm taking this course to reach my knowledge and competences and use it in my classes.

Sara - Italy

sara_ferraiuolo — 2017-02-21 19:34:14 UTC

The world is more than ever a multicultural enviroment, we need to learn how to deal with diversity and we need to learn how to teach this reality to kids in order to have them grow as real worldwide citizens. This is the main reason I am taking this course

Stavroula - Greece

2017-02-21 19:50:47 UTC

Hello everybody!! My name is Stavroula. I live in Athens, Greece, and I am a primary school teacher (3rd grade). My school is located near the center of Athens and we have students from many different countries, mainly economic migrants. I am very glad to participate in this course. It would be a great opportunity to share opinions, best practices and views with other colleagues from different countries who teach in multicultural learning environments. You are welcome to visit our school website for more information about our school http://blogs.sch.gr/21dimath/Our http://21dimath.weebly.com/

Aurora - Italy

aurorpagano — 2017-02-21 20:21:38 UTC

Hello! I think today all teachers should have competence about cultural diversity because our pupils have changed, they come from all countries, from all origins but all have the same needs and it is appropriate to get the right competences to face our new world made of different cultures.

Rosa, Italy

2017-02-21 20:26:04 UTC

These days we're dealing with a changing society and consequently with diversity in class. I think, as teachers, we have a moral duty to be prepared to face multiculturalism in order to offer the same opportunities to all students and make them feel comfortable and accepted.

Laura - Italy

2017-02-21 20:46:50 UTC

Talk about cultural diversity in schools is very important, there are many students from all over the world with different stories, with different cultures, they are very valuable to us. I believe that they are teaching us a lot to broaden our horizons. Teach students to accept cultural diversity in the classroom is to train tomorrow's citizens without any prejudice

LauraB, Italy

proffybarbieri — 2017-02-21 21:19:10 UTC

My students are 16/19 years old, I think that talking about cultural diversity, in classes with student with diverse cultural backgrounds, can help them in finding "their" personal unique place in the world surrounding them, in which they have a mix of family traditions and new ways of life....

Grace-Italy

2017-02-21 21:29:10 UTC

I would like to learn about different cultures becouse I think differnt cultures can be a resource for all

Paola Arduini, Italy

2017-02-21 21:45:05 UTC

In our history in Italy we already had to cope with intercultural classes, when internal migrations during the 60's produced classes mixed with children just arrived in northern big cities from small villages in the south. Schools had to cope with these challenges of integration and cooperation. Now we have to integrate children coming from every corner of the planet and and the school is the natural place where cultures can mix and, sharing ideas, building a new common knowledge

Anna - Italy.

2017-02-21 22:02:16 UTC

Hi! I'm Anna. I'm a teacher at primary school in Legnano. I teach to children from 6 to 11 years old. In my classroom there are children from : Cina, Bangladesh, Marocco, Albania, France, Santo Domingo....
It's a melting pot classroom. I try to do the best that I can every day.

Giovanni Venditti, Italy

2017-02-21 22:09:07 UTC

STYLESFrom Krashen to Bloom, from Labov to Peirce...my Learning and Teaching strategies have blended in order to find a strong but efficient structure to learn and comprehend how to learn so that my pupils can resto on a Teacher who realizes the so-called lifelong learning. Emotion, order and abduction sustain the Communicative Approach I frequently use in my classes. I need to enrich my strategies with aids and competences aiming at overwhelming barriers and favouring integration of foreigners.

Sabrina Pallara, Italy

sabrina_pallara — 2017-02-22 07:51:42 UTC

Hallo! I am Sabrina and i teach Italian, Geography and History at the Middle School in Italy, near Bergamo. I have a multicultural class, with seven students from different parts of world, specially from north Africa, but also from South America. I would like to propose more interesting activities and enrich my competences to involve my students in lessons and activities that could enrich them too.

Ioanna, Greece

ichalkia10 — 2017-02-22 08:05:18 UTC

Our school’s initiative in educational programmes within the school location and our innovative activities ,which promote intercultural education and contribute to the peaceful cohabitation within a multicultural social environment, are not enough to encounter the challenges created by the increased incoming of the newly arrived migrants who don’t speak the Greek language. These challenges are mainly related to the gradual absorption of their families in the social and economical background and their contact with the European values and cultures since most of the migrants’ final destination is another European country.

Cristina Petre, Italy

cristinapetre007 — 2017-02-22 09:17:54 UTC

Hello everybody, I'm a Romanian citizen living in Italy and I'm working like educator in an Italian public school. I know by myself what integration means and the importance of being integrated. The cultural diversity is a reality all over the world and the school could help a lot. Now we are here ready to learn and understand more about it.

Valentina Confido, Italy (Module 1.1)

valentinaconfido — 2017-02-22 09:50:28 UTC

Why address cultural diversity? Because it simply enriches our "own" diversity. I try to blend my teaching strategies so as to involve students, alll of them, especially those who come from other countries and do not speak English or Italian. I totally agree with Alicia: these are times in which this issue must be addressed with proper means, and "integration" too often remains only an empty word..

2017-02-22 10:06:42 UTC

Zvonimira, Croatia

2017-02-22 10:44:04 UTC

We, as participants in this course provide cultural diversity. As teachers we see cultural diversity in school and so enrich our experience. We need to accept diversity, break stereotypes and develop empathy. We live in a world where teachers should have intercultural competence

Alessandra B., Italy

beralessa_ab — 2017-02-22 11:59:48 UTC

Each kids are different, each person is different. School is the place where to learn cultural diversity, this is a big opportunity for the pupils. This contest is multicultural and I love it!

Luisa D, Italy

2017-02-22 12:27:00 UTC

Hi everybody, I'm Italian, however my parents were born in Greece, so I know myself what cultural diversity means. I teach in a secondary school with students coming from different countries, I even have a class where the minority of my students are Italian! Multicultural enviroment is our reality and could be a great opportunity of cultural enrichment for us all!

Stanislava Petrova, Bulgaria

sto_ati — 2017-02-22 12:47:59 UTC

Every child is different! The world is color and the children are colors! This is rich value. I think that in modern world we all are cultural mixed.

Alessandra Gallina - Italy (module 1.1)

scrocchia67 — 2017-02-22 14:01:56 UTC

Even if today some people still think of building up (new) walls to protect ourselves from others, we cannot prevent the huge migration of human beings from being stopped. Maybe it's our destiny to live, grow, study, work and die together... Such a society, necessarily represents the affirmation of cultural diversity and schools are the right places to experience this change.

Serena Antonaci - Italy (module 1.1)

dolcefollia79 — 2017-02-22 14:13:13 UTC

Hello! I'm Serena. I'm an Italian teacher. I believe that the Italian school is set up as a real "laboratory" of encounter between cultures and it is important to accept and promote the integration of these people. We have to live, study and work togheter.

Linda Carlos Ruiz, Finland

lindacarlosruiz — 2017-02-22 14:19:42 UTC

I agree with Alessandra Gallina from Italy. We can't continue building up walls. And I don't know why we would want to do that. Everybody has an equal right to live without fear of bombs and everybody has a right to education and health care. We have to accept that we can't continue building walls, we have to try to make the best of this situation that we have now. That can only be done respecting other cultures and respecting every individual no matter where they come from. The schools have an immense responsibility in tackling this situation. We have to teach open mindedness and respect.

Loredana Pirotti, Italy

2017-02-22 14:38:47 UTC

Hi, I'm an italian teacher. I believe communication is the most important skill to build equality.

Pietro- Italy

pierolauro — 2017-02-22 14:56:18 UTC

I am a French teacher in a high cooking school, I love my job and I love interacting with my students who come from different parts of the world especially China, Albania, and Eastern countries, I always encourage inclusiveness among my students; self-respect and acceptance of the other are of the utmost importance when it comes to building a peaceful society promoting diversity as a valuable contribution to the whole world.

Lorenza Cairo - Italy hi, toghether , I'm a teacher in secondary school. in our school there is a great number of foreign students, so I'm perfetioning in teaching. I'm fond of technology resources that I find in the web. good work everyone!

lorenzacairo — 2017-02-22 14:56:41 UTC

Olga, Italy

inquestafase — 2017-02-22 15:22:49 UTC

We need to empathize with students, respect them and believe that eache one has something special we can build upon.

Silena P. - Italy

p_silena — 2017-02-22 17:02:05 UTC

I've decided to take this course because I've always found difficult to personalize the activities and the teaching methods. A large variety of needs can't be satisfied without a structured experience in classes where the cultural diversity is the main issue and the biggest opportunity to live, too. Teachers should know what to do and how to do, in order to be part of a project.

Lucia, Italy

2017-02-22 17:09:39 UTC

I enrolled in this course because I want to study issues of multiculturalism. I firmly believe in values such as tolerance, respect, empathy, solidarity among all members of the "human race". However, even I experience the difficulty of transmitting these values to my students. Also, I hope to discover new resources (books, teaching materials, links, sites etc.) To increase my methodological expertise in multicultural classes.

Rossana Cattaneo, Milan

2017-02-22 17:22:41 UTC

I agree with Alicia's views (video) about multiculturalism as a necessary stage of our own lives and as an enrichment of our experiences. We face cultural diversity every day: we necessary need to learn how to to face it and to transmit the awareness of this enrichment to young people.

Paola Piolanti from Reggio Emilia

2017-02-22 17:30:49 UTC

I agree with Alicia, and we must not hide that is very difficult to teach in class with student of different cultures; but they are our future, so we can not escape

Claudia, Italy

claudiatirendi — 2017-02-22 18:04:26 UTC

I decided to join this course because I am very interested in intercultural competence and I find that developing intercultural competence is one way of developing empathy which is a most needed "ability " these days: the ability to walk in someone else's shoes and feel what they feel.
I teach EFL in secondary school and I love my job. Always willing to learn.

Valbona ,Albania

valbona_mata2 — 2017-02-22 18:25:31 UTC

Hello
I am Valbona from Albania
I am a teacher at a primary school and I teachon the third class.My school is an a smoll litlle tawn but very old on the middle Albania.My school is old and the tecnologyis missing.I am very entuziastic to be part of your coors and I hoping to learn a lot of knowleege from it. I don"t have experience on the theme because the students are from here and not from other places.My problem is that students are on differet levels of econony and sociaty

Rossella, Italy

2017-02-22 18:41:08 UTC

I decided to join the course to develope my intercultural competence

Elena, Italy

2017-02-22 18:42:44 UTC

I'm interested in intercultural course for the ever increasing presence of foreign children in classes.

Anna Naddeo

2017-02-22 18:45:30 UTC

I wish to increase my knowledge
Currently I do not have foreign students but learning is always good

Seppe Hermans

sendtoseppe — 2017-02-22 19:30:20 UTC

Diversity and cultural diversity is nothing new in my classroom, but I hope to get fresh insides and be able to improve my practices.

Silvana,Italy

2017-02-22 19:41:43 UTC

I'm taking this course because there are some foreign students in my classes and I would like to help all my pupils become respectful of the different cultures.

Fabiana, Italy

fabiana2 — 2017-02-22 20:56:44 UTC

In my class there aren't different people (I'm sorry for this). But I, always, talk about other people.
All people are different! All people are specials :)!
During CLIL lesson I show my pupils different language and different culture. When we discuss about traditions (for example Christmas) we talk of the world's traditions. We, always, watch video or listen song from around the world :)

Carol (Italy)

carol_f — 2017-02-22 21:11:31 UTC

I'm a teacher and I live in the south of Italy. Sometimes in our classes there are foreign students. In these cases the consciousness of cultural diversity helps students to develop the intercultural competence which is really important to welcome the foreign student in the best way.

Irene (Italy)

2017-02-22 21:14:44 UTC

Teach foreign students is difficult but I think that diversity is an opportunity for all to learn. I'm agree with Fabiana: all people are special and different. In my classes there aren't foreign students but some years ago i worked with foreign people.

Giorgia, Romania

giorgiagroza — 2017-02-22 21:18:11 UTC

The idea of working in a cultural diversity is very interesting, even if in our region there are not many migrants or students with other nationality, but there are minorities as germans, hungarians or roma people.

CHRISTOS GREECE

christos_chachoudis — 2017-02-22 21:23:35 UTC

THE IDEA OF WORKING IN A CULTURAL DIVERSITY PROJECT IS VERY INTERESTING AND VERY PROMISING FOR OUR STUDENTS ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE HAVE SO MANY MIGRANTS IN MY COUNTRY ALTHOUGH WE HAVE NO MIGRANTS IN THE SCHOOL I WORK. BUT IT COULD BE VERY USEFULL TO EDUCATE OUR STUDENTS TO ACCEPT AND WORK AND COLLABORATE WITH OTHER - DIFFERENT STUDENTS

Sonia, Spain

2017-02-23 08:08:25 UTC

having foreign students in class and other with special needs make teacher develop new strategies of teaching-learning applied to those students. It is necessary having those students in class so that education enriches and also to cover these needs

Patrizia, Italy

2017-02-23 11:11:01 UTC

The idea of working in a cultural diversity is very interesting. In Italy the are many migrants but there aren't migrants like students in the school where I work. Anyway I think that this project can be very usefulll to educate our students.

Gabriella Salerno, Italy

2017-02-23 11:41:37 UTC

Diversity is very important in all contexts. The school is the most important place to learn the multiculturality and the respect of diversity because students are all the same, without difference of origins.

Multiculturality in school is very important for build the society of tomorrow.

Laura F. Italy

2017-02-23 14:45:59 UTC

It is important to be able to create a good collaboration atmosphere in the class, where the diversity has to be seen as a very important resource. I'm taking part in these course to learn how to motivate to collaboration and mutual help. Sometimes languages difficulties are to be overcome and i think that this project can be usefull to learn new communication- strategy

Maura, Italy

mauraccia — 2017-02-23 14:50:28 UTC

Very often, when talking to people outside school either in a face to face interaction or on a social network, I get the idea that they really don't have a clue of what real life is. They use "you" (or, worse "they" utterances...), generalizing judgements based on assumption created by the Media. In a classroom, pupils have an unique possibility to come to terms to a completely different point of view... I often tell my students about the man who was speaking with another - SouthAmerican one - without getting the point of the conversation. The misunderstanding was all about points of view: while for one the past was behind the back, for the other was in front because, to be honest, the only things that you know, because you can see them, are the things that you have already experienced... The misterious, scary, unknown ones, are the future, which you can't see yet (and no human being has eyes on his back... No matter what's his country...). Or what the Incas thought of the Conquistadores who destroyed life just for money, whereas them killed men as their most important and sacred things to offer to Gods... Apart from the point that, in the classroom, every single pupil is different, and we should value every difference as a resource (even though, honestly, it's sometimes very hard and not always rewarding...) I think the hypothetical regular Italian pupil has an opportunity to learn unvaluable skills to spend in the global market (and life) of the foreseeable future in an early stage of the life, when it's easier, being the brain more flexible. I hope that being open-minded won't become a vantage robots can have over humans... We, as teachers, are supposed to find ways to improve these cooperative skills, possibly in an engaging context, so that they won't be wasted. I for one often think that I'm not capable of facing this challenge and I'll be crushed by the overload of responsabilities, getting heavier every day but, if there is a method to succeed, I guess is the one chosen by this course: to exchange ideas with colleagues that, not differently from our students, all have different resources and experiences to share.

Maria Marioara, Romania

lenuta_chis — 2017-02-23 16:31:17 UTC

In my school are not immigrant children. But as a member of the European Union it is likely that this situation will change. I want to be prepared for such a situation. I would like to know more about that differ from teachers around the world.

Sara Viotti, Italy

sara_viotti — 2017-02-23 17:24:31 UTC

I'm attending this course because I'm interested on EU education policies, specially about the refugees topic. In my opinion, our future is multicultural and we need to open our arms, hearts an brains to people coming to our lands. Only we, the teachers, can create a future of peace. In my lessons, I find specially easy to make my students know each others because they all are learning a language, Spanish, that a few of them speak as their mother tongue.

Annarita Scioli, Italy

2017-02-23 17:58:47 UTC

I teach in a CPIA (Provincial Center for the Education of Adults). In the last five or six years our students ave been mostly migrants coming from many different Countries: Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Albania, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and many others. Therefore the issue of cultural diversity is of outmost importance in our school, together with the demands and needs of adult students who dropped out of school very early in their lives. I consider teaching in a CPIA as an oppurtunity of personal and cultural growth and as an oppurtunity to expand my views and knoledge of the world.

Anna P. - Italy

anna_piccinato — 2017-02-23 18:00:05 UTC

In classes of my Institute there are many foreign students, both first and second generation, who come from different countries of the world, but especially from Eastern Europe. So Multiculturalism is a very important topic at our school. I think that such a complex environment to be lived and handled it well requires, especially from teachers, specific skills.

Rosa, Italy

2017-02-23 18:05:46 UTC

I've learnt connection is the best value of our society. Unfortunately most young people find this concept very difficult to understand and isolation is a real enemy they generally are enthralled by. Talking about diversity in classrooms may help them understand the enrichment of diversity. I hope to learn the best strategies to share this message with them

Clara, Italy

2017-02-23 18:35:09 UTC

I’m taking the course because the geographical area I teach in is one of the most chosen by migrants, especially from certain area of the world. Everyday we cope with diversity in general and, in my opinion, students needs to be guided in their way to becoming part of the human society as individuals, but at the same time as individuals taking part in groups. Society is made up by diversity. Sometimes, especially in lower secondary school, students aren’t able to catch spontaneously the richness hidden in cultural diversity. I would have real competences in dealing with cultural diversity, especially when I have many different cultures in the same class.

Maria Luisa, Italy

luisa_cedrone — 2017-02-23 19:05:33 UTC

I teach in a Primary School and every year children from different countries arrive in my school. So I decide to join this course and improve my competences .

Kyriakopoulos George

gkyriakopoul197 — 2017-02-23 19:38:54 UTC

The reason I'm taking this course is because i fell all the more inadequate with the needs of my students. Achieving collaboration and self-esteem in the classroom is of the umost importance at the end of the day. I honestly love the idea of uniqueness of the individuals - every child is one although we seem to forget it sometimes. We need to bear in mind that coexistence begins at school, collaboration and tolerance are tought through
achieving mutual goals.Migrant students can bring in new ideas and teach life lessons to our students.

Stefania, Italy

2017-02-23 21:15:44 UTC

I think like Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. An intercultural teacher must be open minded and accept all the aspects of the migrant students' cultural backgrounds respecting every kind of diversity.
I think it's important also to make the opportunity to integrate students.

Konstantina, Greece

2017-02-23 21:37:57 UTC

Hello! I’m Konstantina. I live in Athens, Greece and I’m a primary school teacher (1^stgrade). Our school is near the center of city and we have students from 17 different countries. In my class there are 21 students from Greece, Albania, Romania, Moldavia, Syria, Bangladesh, Nigeria and we are a happy team!! During the year we often have newly arrived migrants coming at our school.

I’m really interested in this course because it’s an opportunity to communicate with other colleagues and share with them opinions and practices about multicultural classrooms.

I agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav ‘s opinion. I strongly believe in sharing as a synonymous of mutual respect. School must be an harbinger of society and must be a place, THE PLACE, where everybody can be himself and increase his self-esteem. Psychologic studies show that humans find, know, explore and valorize themself only between the relationship with their “caregiver”, peer and the enviroment too. Only between social life, women and men can discover who they are. Everybody is unique, even twins are unique too. Our culture, our background is what differentiates us. Each of us is the result of our family story and our citizen story. But if someone watches and compares the histories of peoples discovers that they are very similar. So, actually, what differentiates us is what joint us. School must teach its. Dialogue and cooperation are the most important instruments that can realize it. Through the use of thecnologies too, physical and ideological distances will reduced.

condomittir — 2017-02-23 22:30:13 UTC

Rosaria Filippo - Italy- Diversity is part of man's nature.Demonstrate that diversity is a source of wealth is not easy. The difficulties encountered require to put in place strategies and differentiated solutions to resolve. The school must promote the development of the potential of each one starting from the characteristics, needs, the needs and requirements of each individual as well as organize targeted and differentiated.Family, school and territory must work together ... but most of the time is just utopia.As a teacher I feel the inadequacy of the tools available to me compared to the ambitious objectives set out by current standards. I feel left alone to face the problems, no signs, no special training and no support of routes and appropriate teaching materials.For my part there is a great willingness and openness to foreign students but encounter many difficulties in the daily management of the work in the classroom and with family relationships.Very often foreign children studying in Italy tend to hide the suffering and difficulties related to the fact of having to disguise to be similar to others. They will in fact frequently asked to adapt quickly and find their own place within the rules and daily routines.I feel helpless in front of this. As a special education teacher I warn my failure. Interact with curricular colleagues often hard already when I rise in defense of the student with disabilities that I follow .. let alone a student of class which, according to them, would not have direct responsibility.This is my favorite book ... the one with which I started talking to my kids for diversity: "Elmer: different and equal." Elmer is an elephant, a fantastic character who realizes he's the only multi-color in a world of gray elephants.Every child is "rich", the bearer of potential, originality, history and memory, is active child, builder of its own relationships and knowledge, needs a path that meets the needs of the children themselves. (National Guidelines 2004)To grow you need to meet someone else; someone to deal with, someone who will listen and listen, able to be at the same time limit and resource thus stimulating a serious dialogue, respectful, constructive.The relational dimension is so fundamental.

rosaria_filippo — 2017-02-23 22:44:42 UTC

Elena Chiş, Romania

lenuta_chis — 2017-02-24 06:05:24 UTC

Today in my school are not immigrant children. Now Romania is an EU member. This makes it possible that in the future children in my school to come emigrants. I want to be prepared for such a situation. I would like to know more about the integration of immigrants, I can use the experience of other teachers who have faced this problem.

laura brazzabeni - italy

2017-02-24 07:45:20 UTC

my school is full of migrants and foreign students being a vocational school where you can learn a job and train it in 3-4 years.
in classes with migrants you have diversity, but also a lot of multiculture. a problem: to create self-esteem

Silvia galkina- Italy

2017-02-24 09:40:09 UTC

Nella mia scuola primaria ci sono bambini provenienti da paesi e culture diverse e l integrazione sta alla base dell educazione scolastica,per la crescita del bambino

Irene, Italy

2017-02-24 09:56:07 UTC

Today there are many foreign students in Italian schools and we have to work in multicultural classes. I think this is very exciting but also it's not very easy...It's very important for teachers to learn and use everyday strategies to make the learning easier and interesting for student from all over the world

Yuri, Italy

yurisab — 2017-02-24 10:56:00 UTC

My name's Yuri and I teach in a primary school near Padua, in the north east of Italy. I teach to students from six to ten. My school is in a little town and it's not very big. As I work in a school owned by the local parish there are only a w foreign students, but we do all our efforts so that they could feel integrated in the school and in the context they live in.

Eleni, Switzerland

eleni_mousena — 2017-02-24 11:32:08 UTC

I'm taking this course because I'd like to learn more ways and strategies to help foreign students integrate in a new school and society. As an adult who has just moved to another country, I already face lots of obstacles and challenges. I wonder how difficult it might be for a little kid to adapt and be equal to the rest of the students in the class. I completely agree with Alicia that a multicultural classroom is a "microcosmos" of real society. That's why kids should learn how to deal with diversity and different cultures, customs and mentalities from the very beginning.

Stefania, Italy

ste_lenzi_75 — 2017-02-24 11:55:12 UTC

Alicia remembers us that students, just being humans, are different from each oter. Indeed, when meet a new class, it isn't important to me where they are from but who they are. It's true that the two aspects are very connected, but it's sad referring to a student with his provenience istead of his name. Nevertheless, as a teacher, I must always remember that personal stories influence learning ability as well as the cultural environment in wich a student grows up.

Claudia, Italy

claudiatirendi — 2017-02-24 12:46:24 UTC

Most of my students are Italian, but some of them come from foreign countries. I have been an exchange student myself and I know what it means to try and fit in in a new culture without letting go of your own cultural background. I try and keep myself curious about different cultures and ask my students to share their experiences in foreign lands as well as to reflect on their own values and beliefs and discourage stereotypes (when they lead to prejudice). I decided to join this course because I want to do all these things in a more professional way, not just because it comes natural to me. I want to learn new ways to promote intercultural competence in the classroom.

Sanja, Croatia

kristapro1950 — 2017-02-24 12:51:40 UTC

Hello, everybody. I'm from Split, Croatia. I used to work as a journalist and anthropologist. Now, I'm a teacher of Croatian language and literature. My students are from eleven to fourteen.
I'm taking the course because I'm convinced that cultural diversity is our, European future. We have to know more about each other, learn more about each other because we are all special and precious. Respect for others is necessary for maintaining a peace. School children are the best ambasador of love, respect and peace.
I have a student from Venezuela. She poorly speaks Croatian and don't speak English so we are struggling sometimes, but we are teaching each other.
Exploring her cultural heritage is so interesting and other kids are thrilled.
I want to improve my teaching skills because we are expecting some immigrants soon. Very often they are very frustrated after so many tragic events. They need understanding and comfort. My family is multicultural, i' ve been in the war and i know how difficult can be...

Emanuela, Italy

2017-02-24 15:04:18 UTC

I think it’s important talk about cultural diversity in schools, for erasing stereotypes and prejudices that are part of our culture.

I hope to increase my knoledge and competences.

2017-02-24 15:14:59 UTC

Carmen, Italy

2017-02-24 15:15:48 UTC

Carmen, Italy

2017-02-24 15:15:58 UTC

Hi, my name is Carmen and I teach in the secondary school, near Florence. I teach French to students from 11 to 13 years. In my school there are the students from China. I think that the teachers have not competences to welcome these students because the foreign language is different and also their culture. For this reason, I feel this course is important and I hope to learn a lot of knowledge about.

Muriel, Belgium

murielgoffin — 2017-02-24 16:03:09 UTC

In this century when travelling and moving around is easier than every before, cultural diversity is everywhere all the time. Cultural diversity is part of current societies and we cannot ignore it.

Cultural diversity is in my opinion an essential part of education as it is part of developing the open-mindedness of our pupils and being open-minded and developing curiosity is a keystone in learning. As teachers, it is important for us to perceive cultural diversity as a tool to enhance the learning experience and not as an obstacle we have to overcome. In order to do this, we have to reflect on diversity to understand it better and share our good practice to use all its learning potential.

Tommaso, Italy

2017-02-24 16:14:30 UTC

Hello! my name's Tommaso and I'm from a little town near Florence. I teach phisycal education at the secondary school and I help students with difficulties in other subjects. I think that the integration and the rispect of other cultures are the most important values of our contemporary society.

Vanesa, Croatia

2017-02-24 16:17:59 UTC

I think that cultural diversity is very important in school as well in our lives.

Monica Boccoli, Italy

mobocco — 2017-02-24 16:28:14 UTC

I'm a primary school teacher. I teach in Cremona. I think the group working is very important in classroom, it can overthrow the differences

Federica, Italy

sarassofederica — 2017-02-24 16:30:33 UTC

Hi everyone! My name is Federica. I'm an Italian Primary school teacher. I teach Italian language, English, History, Technology and Music for 13 years. I have worked in public schools with students who came from different countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Senegal, China, ..) and with students with special needs too. I work in Turin (It is in Piedmont, in the north west of Italy). My students are aged between 5 and 10 years. Cultural diversity is really something that interests me for professional reasons.

Adriana, South of Italy

2017-02-24 16:56:57 UTC

Hello to everyone!!! I'm so proud of being a student of this course! I'm an English teacher in a secondary school and a PhD in Foreing language literatures. At the moment I teach in a first class of an institute of technology in the field of supporting students with difficulties. This is my 8 year of teaching. Since 2016 I work in Apulia in classes where there aren't students coming from other countries. But when I taught in Bergamo, I worked with students from Albania, Morocco, Moldavia, Russia, China,... aged between 11 and 14. I really love being a part of something bigger and different! Diversity is the key of knowledge and a way of helping us understanding the changes of our society.

ROBERTA, SARDINIA-ITALY

2017-02-24 17:05:57 UTC

HELLO EVERYBODY!
I'M ROBERTA. I LIVE IN SARDINIA (ITALY).
I TEACH IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL TO STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. THIS PERIOD I'M TEACHING ENGLISH IN A KINDERGARTEN. I TAUGHT ENGLISH FOR MANY YEARS IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND ONE YEAR IN PRISON TOO..
I STUDIED LANGUAGES AT THE UNIVERSITY CAUSE I LOVE THE IDEA TO COMMUNICATE AND TO SHARE THOUGHTS ABOUT EVERYTHING WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
I THINK THAT DIVERSITY (PHYSICAL, RELIGIOUS, NATIONALITY, LANGUAGES, POLITICS::) COULD BE A TREASURE FOR PEOPLE!

Cristina Antal - Romania

2017-02-24 17:59:58 UTC

The kindergarten I work in is in a multi cultural region of the country so I think is a good step for me and my children to learn about cultural diversity in the school.

Marco Schoeber, Germany

2017-02-24 18:59:57 UTC

Ever since I was introduced to the concept of intercultural (communicative) competence this topic fascinated me. I think the ability to adapt to new situations and to interact with others is an essential skill that is not just restricted to the classroom but also to our lives. Sharing opinions with other people as well as getting to know new facets of the world surrounding is very interesting. Therefore, I'm looking forward to acquiring new skills/picking on other brains when it comes to finding orientation in my ever-changing classroom. In the long run, we can't deny that our world will become more complex and diverse (which I think to be a good thing), yet I don't want to waste the opportunity to learn from others and professionalise my teaching with regard to interculturality/diversity.

It's important to talk about cultural diversity because it represents future and we need to prepare our students to that.

2017-02-24 19:22:36 UTC

Sara - Italy

sarabemporad — 2017-02-24 20:41:17 UTC

Why am I taking the course? I represent the "function" that follows all the items linked to Multicultural Cuestions in the school where I teach. That's the first reason why I'm particularly interested in this course.
In my school 1/3 of the whole students aren't Italian. I think this should be a "resource" for a school, not a "problem to solve" especially looking at the future. In this sense, I hope I'll make the difference in the school where I teach and in the City where I live too.

Rosanna, Italy

2017-02-24 20:48:50 UTC

I think Like A licia. A teacher must be open minded and accept the cultural background of their students and he must rispect ever diversity. We must create the opportunity of meeting to build the society of tomorrow.

Patrizia, Ital

Patseba — 2017-02-24 21:04:02 UTC

In view of the large number of immigrants, schools are becoming culturally and ethnically diverse. Therefore it is in the school that you have to talk about cultural diversity.
It is impossible to speak about being global without the ability to deal with different cultures.

Moschoula, Hellas

mcdouris — 2017-02-25 08:14:26 UTC

I believe cultural diversity is an asset we have misused as civilizations for a long time. It is openmindness and diversity that has helped humanity evolve and we should embrace this, in order to become a better society, especially in todays globalized world.

Emanuela, Italy

2017-02-25 10:06:11 UTC

Hi, I am a secondary math teacher. My school is a "Multicultural School". We have students that arrive from all over the world.
I'm interested in
Multicultural themes and I appreciate to learn as much as I can about teaching and learning in a Multicultural Society.

lara76fontana — 2017-02-25 10:31:59 UTC

Lara Fontana
I'm attending this course because i work near rome and here it is very common to find lots of foreign students per class. Many of them are adopted and in these cases the problems of social integration are various and not always solveble by the school, that needs help from psychologists and sanitary state system. Attending this course may improve my competences in treating with this particular situations and give me more instruments and strategies to make easier their learning paths.

María, Spain

isasama10 — 2017-02-25 12:23:25 UTC

Spain southern coast is a multicultural area. More than 90 nationalities coexist peacefully in Almería. Daily life is diverse and so is school. Teaching here means learning about diversity every day. What this course means to me is having the opportunity to make the most of this diversity in my classroom so my students can learn more and become more tolerant, responsible and happier citizens in the future.

Eleonora, Italy

eleonora_alicata — 2017-02-25 13:38:14 UTC

I'm attending this course because I have a boy in my class v,where I teach history and geografy, that comes from Egypt. HE arrived in Italy by boat. This is my first experience with migrants in school and I really want to learn strategies in order to help this guy. My colleagues and I are trying to integrate him in the class, but sometimes it is very hard, because he still can't understand our language and he preferes learning alone ,helped by the teacher. I hope to find the way to help him.

Stavroula - Greece

stavroulakod — 2017-02-25 14:19:00 UTC

I participate in this course because I am very interested in finding more ways of promoting multicultural education in our class. It is very important, in such a multicultural society, to learn about cultural diversity, explore ways the educational system can help new immigrants adjust and help them to acquire the necessary skills in order to be competent in class. Also, it would be a great opportunity to meet colleagues, share experiences and teaching strategies for effective learning.

Sara, Italia

stracq_sara — 2017-02-25 14:24:14 UTC

I think it's important to learn about teaching methods on cultural diversity in the classroom to value it and appreciate it.

Astrid, Italy

astriddandrea — 2017-02-25 14:27:35 UTC

Hello everybody, I have been teaching for 14 years in all grades and since 2007 I teach English language and culture in the high school. As a matter of fact, I'am attending this course because I think the core of my teaching is social, behavioural and cultural differences. Moreover, on a daily basis I have to deal with an increasing number of foreign students. Thus, I want to keep me up to date and share ideas with colleagues facing diverse realities.

Carolina D'Angelo, Italy

2017-02-25 17:55:55 UTC

In my opinion is important to learn about cultural diversity because above all nowadays our classrooms are mixed culturally and ethnically. It is important to establish ground rules for the class, to create an environment where people respect the opinions of others and are open to multiple perspectives on any issue. Our students of today will be the adults of tomorrow.

Stefania, Italy

stefaniaferrari — 2017-02-25 18:09:22 UTC

I think that cultural diversity is cultural enrichment. I have no experience about that in school life, but in everyday life I learn something new when I compare my thought with someone with a different culture.

GIUSEPPINA ROMEO

2017-02-25 18:31:21 UTC

Hi! I'm Giuseppina and I teach in an italian nursery school in a nice city on the Mediterraneo sea, Mazara del Vallo. My school, the III "Circolo Didattico B.Bonsignore" includes two types of schools: Primary and Pre-primary. It is structured on 6 complexes spread The school population is about 700 students from 3 to 11.In recent years, the increase of students coming from the Maghreb and from non-European countries has been significant and has favoured an educative offered based on multicultural values. I think it’s important talk about cultural diversity in schools, for erasing stereotypes and prejudices that are part of our culture.

Antonella, Italy

2017-02-25 18:34:08 UTC

I'm taking the course because I'm facing a new teaching reality, that is teaching Italian to foreign students (many of them between 16 and 20 years old) coming from different parts of Africa and India, so it's very important to learn new didactic techniques in order to promote multicaultural activities in my group.

Helga, Croatia

hkraljik — 2017-02-25 18:53:28 UTC

I believe that communication plays the key role in introducing cultural diversity into our classrooms.

Marina,Italy

marinademma — 2017-02-25 18:58:16 UTC

Hi everybody, I think that it will be really nice work on this theme because it could be a point of a new begin. At school we pass many hours teaching all kind of subjects but it is not so easy that the children know each other. When I was a kid I did my primary school in America and I remember how nice was for us kids celebrate our traditions all toghether and it is really hard if I think that it passed 30 years from the last time I did that even if it is more that 20 years that I live my life between the walls of a school, a school that research innovation but so hard to applicate it!!!

Dubravka Crnic, Croatia

dubravka_crnic — 2017-02-25 19:05:15 UTC

I think it's very important to talk about cultural diversity because schools are often places where our students learn the most and they build their attitudes towards cultures and learn to respect diversity.

Elvira Esposito, Italy

2017-02-25 21:36:11 UTC

I think that taking this course will enrich me professionally. I also believe that over the years certainly I happen to teach in classes with pupils from other countries and so I hope to be ready to face the difficult task of a teacher, in full respect for cultural diversity.

Irene, Milo (CT) Italy

ireneprastani — 2017-02-25 21:38:21 UTC

Cultural diversity in school is a reality and to teach is to face reality. The reality may be difficult but it is also rich in beauty and variety and at school teachers experience the beauty of this varity discovering its most exciting and surprising aspects. I think that the social changes invest first the schools and teachers must be prepared to meet them, leading the society in the right direction. Cultural differences are an important opportunity for the moral and cultural growth of any society and therefore must be valued. That's why teachers must have adequate tools to valorize that resource.

Tania, Trofarello (TO), Italy

tanjarull — 2017-02-26 00:15:28 UTC

I think cultural diversity has always been peculiar, mostly in my country. Cultural diversity has always been a richness in countries history. So nowadays. I'm enthusiastic about what we can learn one from each other.

Niki - Greece

nikialexakou — 2017-02-26 01:17:18 UTC

I am taking this course in order to be prepared and able to help my future newly arrived students to feel welcome and adjust to their new home as well as to teach the local ones to cherish and benefit from the diversity in their environment, in their class and in their adult life.
Being in contact with other cultures gives us other points of view, other ways to see the world around us, new ideas.
The classroom is the ideal place for people to understand that cultural diversity is just another kind of diversity, another way in which someone can be different and still be someone we can have fun with, share the same worries, have similar problems and can depend on them to get help and support.

Sevasti Milona, Greece

sev_asti — 2017-02-26 08:40:20 UTC

I participate in this seminar, because my country has experience of migration so now is a place of mass arrival of immigrants more than any other year. I accept the diversity in the classroom and want to equip ourselves in order to be able to help all my students whether or Greeks or are immigrants. That we accept the diversity of classroom does not mean that we accept the mistakes and the indifference of political authorities. However, we must be prepared to do our duty and to accept with love any child soul.

Francesca, Italy

2017-02-26 10:13:17 UTC

I am taking this course because I am interested in cultural diversity. Our future classroom will be more and more diverse and this will be not a problem to deal with but a great enrichment for teacherscas well as for students. As Alica said school is the place where the society is built. Cultural diversity is not a simple theme so I would like to improve my knowledge about it and lesrn and share newvstrategies to help students to live and collaborate together.

EMANUELA B. ITALY

manubar2016 — 2017-02-26 10:40:17 UTC

I'm interested in cultural diversity. In the future classrooms will be more intercultural so I want to improve my competences about it to help students integration in a new country

Salva, Spain

salprosm1 — 2017-02-26 11:45:00 UTC

The area where I live, the south of Spain, is a place with a large population of immigrants from Morocco and some of the eastern provinces. It is a rural and quiet area but is not accustomed to know and open to new cultures. At my school, we only serve cultural minorities in specific activities such as the day of the Peace, but we do not take them into account at all times. I believe that with this course I will learn to become more aware of the subject and to learn to have it present in my classes.

Victoria, Brussels, Belgium

2017-02-26 12:04:46 UTC

I am taking this course because my adult students are merely new comers. Their children are in Brussels schools. I am teaching Dutch Foreign Language. It is important to learn about cultural diversity in all our classrooms because it is our reality in Brussels. I strongly believe in the value that cultural diversity has to offer. I followed another course to better understand the immigration policy in Europe. Now I would like to get more insight in tools that facilitate communication and understanding in our multicultural class rooms. Issues of peace can be addressed via education.

Nina E. , Finland

nina_enkkela — 2017-02-26 14:35:48 UTC

I´m taking this course mainly to develop students´ intercultural competence. We have only a few multilingual or immigrant students in my school

Yakup, Turkey

2017-02-26 15:06:38 UTC

I am taking this couse because ı need to know culturel diversity . Approximate 3 million people came to my country from neighbour countries. I must knoe their culture. I must know how to act. So in this couse ı hope ı will know such new ideas and approaches.

VITTORIA,NAPLES-ITALY

vdaquila63 — 2017-02-26 16:07:34 UTC

Our future classroom will be more and more diverse and this will be not a problem to deal with but a great enrichment for teacherscas well as for students. I'm interested in cultural diversity. In the future classrooms will be more intercultural so I want to improve my competences about it to help students integration in a new country.

Ida,Italy

2017-02-26 16:31:47 UTC

I am taking this course because culturel diversity is riches.

miriam scafati, Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2017-02-26 17:26:54 UTC

I am taking this course because I want to improve my competences to help students integration.

Daniela Scalia, Sicily

2017-02-26 17:43:38 UTC

I'm having this course because it's important to be able to talk to everyone, above all in this particular moment

Giuliana ItalyLearning about cultural diversity and building bridges between cultures allow our pupils to become open-minded, responsible and global cizitens. As teachers, we have to contribute as much as possible to both sharing and reflecting on our and other cultures in our classrooms. The multicultural society we live in definetely requires us to be intercultural competents. As a result, taking this course may help me to get and improve my tools so as to acquire the best intercultural competence.

2017-02-26 17:55:58 UTC

Diversity as a chance

2017-02-26 18:09:42 UTC

I love to work in an environment with so rich in different cultural backgrounds. Everyday, I can learn from my students. So why regard diversity as a problem?

Vani (Fot. Vas.), Athens, Greece. At schools, every child and adult is different. This is also the case when all are from the same country. So cultural diversity, in a wider sense, applies to all contexts; where it can be understood to denote the diversity of each individual's personality. When we start talking and working on cultural diversity with our learners, we can help them become more tolerant to each other and to human beings outside the school context. This can lead to collaboration, effective learning, progress, democracy, and peace.

vanikuloheri — 2017-02-26 19:25:07 UTC

Rita

2017-02-26 21:27:29 UTC

I'm having this course because our society is multicultural. Nowadays we have to teach , first of all respect to pupils: respect for themselves, for their mates, for adults ,for disableds, respect for differences...but above all we have to teach them love.
I hope that this course will help me to teach kids to appreciate our society so full of colours and different opinions, ideas, religions.And above all i hope that this course help me to find different ways to do this.

Chiara, Italy Talking about cultural diversity in school is a good way to open our mind and look at the world around how really is.

2017-02-26 23:23:22 UTC

Elisa, Soverato

m_riccio — 2017-02-27 08:43:52 UTC

Hello, I’m Elisa. I am a secondary school technician in a science and chemistry lab. My school is located in Soverato, (Calabria, Southern Italy). We have a lot of students from Marocco, Tunisia, India, China, Russia, Ukraine and Romania. I'm very interested about this course and I hope to learn more about foreign children integration.

Konstantina, Greece

2017-02-27 09:20:24 UTC

I take this course as nowadays at almost all classrooms and schools there are students not only from different countries, but also with different backgrounds and different needs. So, it is important for me as a teacher to learn about cultural diversity in order to learn more things and help them.

VITTORIA,NAPLES-ITALY Our future classroom will be more and more diverse and this will be not a problem to deal with but a great enrichment for teacherscas well as for students. I'm interested in cultural diversity. In the future classrooms will be more intercultural so I want to improve my competences about it to help students integration in a new country.

vdaquila63 — 2017-02-27 10:44:14 UTC

Laura Lupo, Italy

2017-02-27 10:50:57 UTC

I've taken this course cause I think we, as teachers, have to be able to make our students understand the importance of cultural diversity and also to make them free from prejudice and other despicable things which are present yet in our society.

Paola, Italy

2017-02-27 11:37:20 UTC

I teach in high school, and I'm very interested in learning, studying and discussing on this subject not only because I have several students from diverse background, but also because I feel that in our times learning more about cultural diversity it's fundamental as citizens and teachers in the first place. And school is the institution where every student meet cultural diversity for the first time, and that experience will be the imprinting for the future behavior and feeling towards cultural diversity.

luisa, italy

ossolengoluisa — 2017-02-27 12:18:27 UTC

the key-word is "to personalize" the teaching.
differences are beautiful and all teachers would personalize their teachings, most of all a support teacher, like me.

Chiara, Italy

chiara_agnelli1 — 2017-02-27 14:40:30 UTC

I strongly believe in the importance of cultural diversity in schools, mainly for two reasons.
First, as human beings we are obviously connected one to another; learning how to deal with diversity and appreciate the treasure this brings to us it's necessary if we want to grow as empathic, responsible and sociable human beings.
On the other hand, Europe is facing a very challenging era: thousands of people from different countries are coming to our continent looking for a better future, better opportunities, peace and respect. Learning how to welcome them, how to share our values and learn theirs, learning how to co-exist in peace and harmony is a duty we cannot further ignore.
For generations, my country was a land of "emigration": Italians left Italy and went abroad to escape famine, illness and war. Now Italy has become a land of "immigration": people from Asia, Africa and South America are escaping the same problems we had in the past and are coming to Italy seeking for a better future. I have the impression we are not ready, we are not trained enough to guarantee these people and ourselves a serene co-existence. But we have to learn. It's a responsibility we cannot deny. And I believe education is always the most powerful weapon against prejudice, ignorance and discrimination.

Luciana ,Italy

2017-02-27 14:45:09 UTC

I 'm taking this course because I want to develop my intercultural competences as a teacher who ,day by day, works in classes with learners from diverse backgrounds.
I want to work hard to let the differences among my students be a treasure instead of a huge problem.

Fanny, Italy

fannyamato — 2017-02-27 17:31:33 UTC

As a teacher for children with special needs, I really know how important is "the difference" in a given class. It's a great treasure, and as teachers, we have to let the students cherish the differences. A class is a little piece of society, with the same characteristics, in a smaller "size"! The ideal place to meet people, and to learn how wonderful and important is to recognize,accept and finally love the differences among people.

Lavinia Cosma, Romania

2017-02-27 17:54:10 UTC

Hello! I am an English teacher in Romania and I teach deaf students. Their disability makes them different for the nowadays society and their educational needs are special. I want to develop my intercultural competences as a teacher in order to help my students to understand that they have equal rights and obligations. Furthermore, I want to change the wrong opinion that most of people have that deaf students are different.

Gina, ITALY

2017-02-27 17:55:01 UTC

Hi, I'm a teacher in Primaria School, I teach English too. I' m interested in this course because of the importance of the intercultural esperiences.

Zoi, Greece 1.1 Why address cultural diversity in schools?

zetakoli — 2017-02-27 18:44:35 UTC

As a Kindergarten teacher I feel that cultural diversity is one of the most important issues that a young child need to deal with through the every day school life. The interaction among the different cultures when it idevelops in the educational frame could support the future adults' social coexistance. As a teacher I feel responsible for the cultivation of tolerance and support of the cultural diversity in the educational system and the society.

BURCU YÖRÜK

burcu_yoruk_00 — 2017-02-27 19:20:03 UTC

TURKEY

Hello there,
The city I live in is a place where the Syrian refugees are intense. I'm a high school teacher, and now we have five students. It is thought that this number will increase in the coming years.
So I think that this course has made a lot of contribution to my professional development.
managing

Claudia Renda Italy

claudiarenda — 2017-02-27 19:22:13 UTC

Hi collegues!
In my opinion the word is chanching quickly, so it's very important in all

Claudia Renda Italy

claudiarenda — 2017-02-27 19:30:09 UTC

I'm taking the course beacause I like improove my competence and divide experience with teachers from different country. My classroom are full of culture, sociale background. For example refugees,

Annamaria, Italy

2017-02-27 19:49:55 UTC

I totally agree with Alicia's point of view. In the art field multiculturality is a daily experience and I still fill that there's a lot to do.

Giorgio Figura, Italy

2017-02-27 20:53:38 UTC

I am a teacher of Catholic religion in primary school, insegmno in a school that is located in Rosolini a town in southern Sicily, close to the Mediterranean Sea. In my school there are many foreign students from different countries and therefore different cultures. For years we start hosting projects to promote the integration of these foreign students and create a welcoming and sharing climate.

Giovanna Dotato - Italy

2017-02-27 21:54:51 UTC

I am a teacher of Catholic religion in primary school, my school is located in a town of Sicily Rosolini .. In my school there are foreign students from different countries and therefore different cultures. For this reason we try to start hosting projects to promote the integration of these foreign students.

Jolanta, Poland

jolanta_stefanska — 2017-02-28 06:54:39 UTC

I take part in this cource to get to know the challenges that most of the European countries are coping with. There are - in comparison - few refugees in Poland and the migrants rather don't settle down. The students' attitude is created mostly by the media. So I would like to exchange experience with teachers who are working with children form different social and school background.

Francesca Leone

2017-02-28 08:15:44 UTC

Melahrini Papardeli Greece

mpapardeli — 2017-02-28 08:52:44 UTC

In our days there are so many pupils at our schools who come from different cultural backrounds.Theacher must be educated to know more about the way we have to act and help not only these children to be part of our class but also must know how to help the rest of pupils to accept these children who come from other countries.
So, I believe courses like this will give us a new view to our daily teaching procces.

Monica B., Italy

chitarramarconi — 2017-02-28 09:18:05 UTC

I have taught in other schools where there were many more migrant pupils than the school where I teach now. I think that immigration is a phenomenon that will increase and we have to learn to deal with this phenomenon in schools to teach our students to live through this phenomenon without fear and to consider diversity as richness

Michela, Italy

2017-02-28 11:40:07 UTC

We don't need immigrants to face cultural diversity, as a matter of fact in almost every school and in almost every class there are pupils who come from different cultural and social backgrounds. I agree entirely: the school has to be the first place in which people learn to get on with the diversity, othat's whty I need to learn continuously new strategies to help them live and work together

Tiziana - Ital

ioptiziana — 2017-02-28 11:43:35 UTC

I'm taking this course because I feel the need to adjust to and understand a rapidly changing world, where people will more and more "choose" (whether by will or by force...) the place to live, a place which was not their ancestors' country, but one they will have to cope with no matter what. I can only imagine how difficult and heart-rending this may be, and how easy it is for those who move (and for those who see them arriving) to retreat into well-known territory, into ingrained prejudices which split the world into "us" and "them". It is important to learn about cultural diversity in our classrooms because that is something we see around us everyday. We have to live with it and our students too, we can be enriched from it, but only if we learn how to use the right "keys" to interpret it.

Angela- Rome, Italy

2017-02-28 15:14:30 UTC

I'm interested in this course because in classes we always have students of different cultures and habits. This should be considered as an opportunity for sharing cultural diversities and I would like to know different ways of coping with this situation

Anna Capone, Italy

prof_annacapone — 2017-02-28 16:01:44 UTC

I enrolled this course to be more confident in the strategies to be adopted in a multicultural context. Welcoming people from other countries is the most thrilling challenge of our future, despite the overwhelming rising nationalism throughout the industrialised countries, starting from The United Kingdom, that has recently chosen to exit the EU, up to the USA, willing to stop Middle-eastern nationalities entering their country.

I hope this course will provide me with new tools to develop students’ intercultural competence.

Loredana, Rome Italy

loredana_mangano — 2017-02-28 16:31:05 UTC

I'm interested in cultural diversity school because we live in a global society. Our society is really multi ethnic, multi cultural and for me is necessary give pupils instruments for read this times and understand that cultural diversity is a richness opportunity for the men of the future. School is the best place for to learn all this, because in school you can learn to live with other people and because it's the setting most suitable for learning and for build future society. I believe that keyword is collaborating, work together for build an inctercultural tomorrow.

Ida,Ialy

2017-02-28 17:16:05 UTC

I taking this course because cultural diversity is riches.

Ilaria, Italy

2017-02-28 18:38:59 UTC

I taking this course because i want to learn new strategies, new way of relating with my student and also to help them to have a better relate with each other, because i think that cultural differences can enrich us.

Βασιλική Κρικώνη, Greece

vasikriko — 2017-02-28 18:56:43 UTC

Nowadays, more than ever, we face the fact that our pupils come not only from different countries, but also from diferrent social, economical and cultural environments.
Young people should realize that although we are different, each of us is precious and special and that diversity is a treasure, as Alicia said.
Through education, we can help to create the future citizens of a pluraristic society, able to accept, live, respect each other.

Sara Dionisi from ItalyI enrolled this course because I want to be more confident in the way of teaching foreign students, above all immigrant children. Living in a multicultural society it is necessary to deal with the phenomenon of immigration. We can not help but consider this an opportunity to teach our students tolerance, respect for others, to enlarge their cultural horizons recognizing, accepting and finally considering diversity a necessary factor to humanity

sara_dionisi — 2017-02-28 18:59:31 UTC

Daniela Distefano from Legnano,Italy

2017-02-28 19:09:37 UTC

I'm taking this course because I need to learn new way of relating with my pupils.
I teach Italian language and also English language.
I think we must go beyond the classic type of teach because we live in a multicultural society with a high percentage of foreigners.
It's important to think of diversity as an asset so to help all the students to work and to study together

Roberta La Rosa from Palermo, Sicily,Italy

rlrc — 2017-02-28 19:26:35 UTC

I'm following this course because i want to learn new strategies, new way of relating with my student.I want to help them to obtain better school results and because i think also that cultural diversity is riches.

Lucia Allari from Verona,

2017-02-28 21:22:29 UTC

I teach Spanish in a secundary school. I'm interested in this course because I've been working in the Last 4 years also as the vice-principal and this has meant that I get in touch with a lot of families, not only pupils. I've realized that "good will" is not enough, I have to learn more about cultural diversity in my school in order to give my pupils and their families the right support they need, expecially during the first period in a new school, in a new country, with very different habits.

Silvia, from Rome

silvietta_68 — 2017-02-28 21:31:39 UTC

I teach math in primary school.
I hope to improve and develop my inclusive abilities.
I think having some knowledge of how cultures vary from each other can give teachers a starting point in knowing how to approach students and classes.

Ioannis Velonakis, Greece

2017-02-28 21:47:54 UTC

I think that it is important to learn about cultural diversity in our classrooms because nowadays communication between different people and their cultures is significantly easier than in the past. Also, it is not unusual to have foreign students in our classes. For all these reasons, I felt that present course will make me more effective as a teacher in modern multicultural conditions.

Laura, Italy

2017-02-28 22:21:06 UTC

I take this course because I want to learn much strategies to spese at school.

Rossella, Italy

rossella_esposito — 2017-02-28 22:28:47 UTC

I think it is very important to learno about cultural diversity in the school, because students must develop an intercultural competence in order to be able to live in a multicultural society. Teacher must help students to understand that cultural diversity doesn't mean better or worse culture. They must understand that each person is different from another and it's important to accept diversity and to see it as enrichment. For this reason it's important the comparison with other cultures, also to define the own cultural identity.

Lara, Italy

monarca_lara — 2017-02-28 23:25:16 UTC

I totally agree with Alicia's point of view. Cultural diversity at school reflects our multicultural society. Diversity is a richness and through this course I would like to get new creative cultural competences , share ideas in order to develop a positive class environment , learnig strategies for my students using cultural diversity as a resource, an enrichment both for my students and me.

Jorge, Spain

raqpozdom — 2017-03-01 08:46:17 UTC

Hi, my name is Jorge and I'm teacher of History, Geography and Latin. My school is in Jaen, a medium city of Andalousia. I'm very concerned of racism and uses of discrimination in our actual world and I'd like to teach to my students that it's better live togetter. In our school the majority of our students are spanish but we have also Latinamericans that are very confident here.

Hi, everyone!I'm Julia, I work as an English teacher in a smaññ village in Spain, befrore this I worked in a correctional with troubled teenagers where I learnt a lot. There I met students from South America, Romania, Morocco, some gipsies from Spain and some student from upper classes so I considere that experience a multicultural one with a lot of different levels of knowledge. Now I work in a quieter place but this is a topic I'm very interested in so let's do our best in this course!!

2017-03-01 10:27:56 UTC

Laura,Sicilia

2017-03-01 14:46:51 UTC

Hello,I'm Laura and I'm teacher in a secondary school in a small city of Sicily. I live in Carlentini near Siracusa.I'm a Italian language teacher in a secondary school. I teach in three classes and my students are 11/14 years.Most of theme are italian, but there are also immigrants coming from extraeuropen countries.I would like to learn about more interculturally competences.

Valentina, Italky

2017-03-01 17:04:58 UTC

Hi, i'm teaching now in

Valentina, Italy

2017-03-01 17:07:30 UTC

Hi, i'm a teacher in vocational training school, i work with mental disability and disorder inside the classes. This kind of High school is very interesting because the mostly of students are looking for a training and the level of study is very low! For this reason secondary schools sometimes suggest this choice when learning is feel very hard for students. The classes are very multicultural. in this course i would Like to learn about new strategies and share experiences.

Rosa, Italy

2017-03-01 17:07:49 UTC

As a teacher, I work in a multicultural context. Being aware of cultural diversity in my classroom is important to promote an inclusive environment in which cultural diversity can be perceived as a value. I want to improve my intercultural competences in order to welcome in the best way strangers students by understanding their needs and I want to be able to create a welcoming and peaceful mood in my classroom avoiding bullying and exclusion.

Loredana

loredanamarzocchella — 2017-03-01 18:12:17 UTC

Loredana, Italy

loredanamarzocchella — 2017-03-01 18:12:17 UTC

I think it's important to improve cultural diversity in order to reduce differences of Language, food and religione among students. So doing like this, it can be created a peaceful environment in which racism and exclusion aren't welcomed.

Victoria, Greece

victvoud — 2017-03-01 21:19:28 UTC

Hi, I teach English in State Primary Schools. I am taking this course in order to become acquainted with techniques / strategies to deal with the possibility of teaching young immigrants. I feel it is extremely important to learn about cultural diversity in my classrooms, as tolerance and solidarity will be the top values of any future classroom!

Deppie, Greece

2017-03-01 22:39:08 UTC

Due to the critical situation that my country is facing nowadays with hundreds of emigrants being "trapped" inside, I believe that the issue of cultural diversity in the classrooms has become vital in Greece. Furthermore, schools are becoming more diverse and flexible as a way to cope with the situation. Therefore, the Greek schools need well educated teachers in the aspect of cultural diversity and competence, teachers who are great supporters of an nonracial and undiscriminating educational system in which each student will get the education that is needed for him based on his cultural backround (personalised teaching). Through this course I hope I will be more educated and aware in order to create an intercultural class in the future and involve all the students inside regardless their origin, their religion and their language.

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Maria Pina, Dicomano (Florence) Italy.

2017-03-02 00:12:50 UTC

I think it's necessary to improve our strategies for including students with different cultures showing their origins and way of living to look for common point not only in food and habits but in feelings and expectations of future. Nowadays teachers must be prepared in strategies promote cooperation and in cultural diversity to reduce misunderstanding.

Ivana, Italy

ivana_fratter — 2017-03-02 07:46:51 UTC

I teach Italian as second language. I attend this course because for me it is important to reflect on the richness of cultural diversity in a class. I think the first challenge is to try to find new strategies to create a new cross-cultural awareness among people. Interest, curiosity and openness are some of the keywords.

Julia, S

2017-03-02 09:10:18 UTC

I really like to get all of my students integrated in my classroom, I love them to interact with each other no matter their origin

Luigina Astorino Italy

20febraio — 2017-03-02 10:53:00 UTC

I'm interested in this course because cultural diversity in school is normal and very common. That's why we don't have to look at the cultural diversity like a lack of something, but like a richness.

Tiziana, Italy (Sardinia)

tispy — 2017-03-02 12:35:22 UTC

We teach students of cultural diverse backgrounds. We should take into account the role they play in our students' lives. Our competences should try to personalise the learning experience of our students- I hope to learn something helpful in this course-

Agostino, Verona Italy

falco_gabu — 2017-03-02 15:46:20 UTC

Hallo! I am Agostino, teacher and headteacher at the moment. I teach to students with special needs in secondary lower school (11 -13 years old) in Valeggio sul Mincio, close to Verona.
We have student from different part of the word, expecially from Africa and Romania.
I'm interested in this course because cultural diversity in school is normal and very common. Have good job my friends.

Eirini

2017-03-02 18:14:09 UTC

Schools nowadays have students from many countries. It is important that we teachers help classmates exchange cultures so they can co-exist in a peaceful way and learn from each other and be able to create new cultural forms for their future lives.

Rafaela

tziouvar — 2017-03-02 18:21:45 UTC

Classrooms nowadays have become a miniature of today's society. Multiculturalism is obvious and students from different origins and cultures are part of our schools and everyday life. Although this is normal for some of us, some students feel uncomfortable or even act in a racist way because they are afraid of something different. By talking about diversity in all its forms wecould address these issues inside school.

ROBERTA, SARDINIA, ITALY..

2017-03-02 18:42:17 UTC

A CLASS IS A SORT OF SOCIETY, IN WHICH PERSONS WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES, RELIGIONS, BELIEFS..LIVE TOGHETHER...SO IT'S ALWAYS MORE IMPORTANT TO FIND THE WAY TO COMMUNICATE AND BUILD SOMETHING ALL TOGHETHER...

Laura, Rome

2017-03-02 21:30:00 UTC

Classes are the right places to change the point of view. A teacher must be a guide. So I think a course can help me to search and find possible solution.

Giusi, Rome

2017-03-03 12:45:39 UTC

Though it can be hard and defying for a teacher, I think the primary goal of education is to help all students become respectful, aware and culturally responsive towards the multitudes of cultures and people they interact with daily in their social and educational environment, with no prejudice nor fears, with no stereotypes that still pervade mass culture.

Cristina, Romania.

cristinahelena2108 — 2017-03-03 14:13:00 UTC

I am taking this course because I want to improve my knowledge concerning cultural diversity. It is important to learn more about this topic because nowadays schools have children from different countries, different cultures, etc.

Izaskun, Spain

2017-03-03 15:08:45 UTC

I participate in this course because we live in a reality that can´t be denied. Diversity and Multiculturalism are in our classes, we live with it (we are really lucky of it) but we need to learn how to cope the best way with it.
This reality enrich our daily work but we also have to be formed on this.
Education is not only a transmition of concepts but also a way of growing as human beins.

Francesca; Messina

f_pasquanucci — 2017-03-03 15:55:03 UTC

Each kid is different!
In our society, there are people with cultural diversity and teachers cannot ignore them.
In my school, there are a lot of students from diverse cultural background.
I think diversity is a resource for those students.
It's very important to create personalized learning environments.
I'm going to attend this course, because I want to learn new strategies to teach in classes with pupils from other countries.

Belén, Portugal

2017-03-03 17:16:47 UTC

As volunteers we work in three different schools, in one we are creating the European club with young people between 14 and 16 years old we talk about cultural diversity and the importance of this. In another school we are with smaller children and the objective here is to know their culture and make them participate in activities where they talk about other cultures.

Markos, Greece

2017-03-03 17:56:43 UTC

I am a graduate of the Department of Primary Education at the Democritus University of Thrace and I hold a Master Degree in Mathematics Education from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Athens.

I work as a schoolteacher in Piraeus Greece where I am still teaching third year children.

I specialize in Research in Mathematics Education. I’m passionate about what I do.

Marina Gurina (Ukraine)

mariam_72 — 2017-03-03 18:46:17 UTC

Each child is particular. They all are different by many aspects: family, place, origins and so on! This course is very actual!

Nancy, Italy

2017-03-03 20:38:53 UTC

Valentina, Italy

flyvale — 2017-03-03 21:18:36 UTC

Hello everyone. I'm teaching italian, history and geography at the secondary school in the South of Italy. I have in my classroom one students sons of migrants, he comes from Marocco, and one Sinti. Diversity and a pluralistic culture are an opportunity to improve my teaching strategies, and it is a resource for the students.

Graziella, Italy

2017-03-03 21:22:59 UTC

Our school is ideal place to learn to live with other people from different cultural. This course is very unique opportunity because I need to learn new way and strategies relating with my student.

Sofia, Greece

sofiakolosidou — 2017-03-04 00:17:25 UTC

I am taking the course because I want to learn how to be more efficient teacher. I feel unprepared when it comes to foreign students because there are so many things I need to know and there is no one to guide me. Students must learn that cultural diversity is not a problem. Every human being is special and has so much to offer. If children embrace diversity when they are young, they would be more sentimental when they grow up.

Kleri, Greece

evriklia19 — 2017-03-04 11:31:07 UTC

It is a necessity to learn more about this subject because in our classes are many students from different countries.

Ant

2017-03-04 14:55:13 UTC

Paola, Italy

2017-03-04 17:37:35 UTC

I think that diversity is beautiful. Every people has unique characteristic that need to be highlighted. The difference of the people can be used to grow the class and learn social competence.
In my school, I had students of different part of the world: Romania, Albania, Cina, India and I think that everyone of this have a good story to tell. Every teacher should eject every story and appreciate the various cultures.

Heidi, Germany

profgiese — 2017-03-04 18:51:45 UTC

In my classroom I have students from Syria, Poland, Turkey and Italy, Germany... we already do eTwinning projects. So my students get a certain idea of what is intercultural diversity. I would like to learn more how to teach better with our cultural diversity in the classroom.

Aneta, Italy

anetakraw71 — 2017-03-05 10:08:27 UTC

I am taking this course because it gives me the opportunity to reflect on my own teaching experience with students that come from different parts of the world and to share ideas with other teachers on this issue.
In my school we have students from different countries and I believe it is important to talk about their culture in the classroom and to make all the students reflect on the importance of the cultural diversity in our society.

Antonella, Italy

2017-03-05 11:17:45 UTC

I'm Antonella and I live in a nice Calabria city. I teach Math and science in a Primary School. My students are six years old and they attend the first class. There are some students that come from Marocco.

Angeliki, Thessaloniki -Greece

2017-03-05 13:40:58 UTC

Cultural diversity is more contemporary than ever. More and more people are migrating to other countries in order to find a better way of living. As a consequence a huge number of children arrived in different cultures and have to face a lot of adaptation problems especially in schools. In the first place are the language and the relations with other children. In this case teacher has the most significant role.The teacher needs to be able to control such differences. In order to do this she/he must have all necessary education, ability and skills to create a balanced environment between children so as the integration will become smoothly.

Anisoara, Romania

2017-03-05 17:18:12 UTC

I am taking this course because it gives me the opportunity to reflect on my own teaching experience with students that come from different parts of the world and to share ideas with with other teachers on this issue.
In my school we have students from different countries and I believe it is important to talk about their culture in the classroom and to make all the students reflect on the importance of the cultural diversity in our society.

Rossana, Italy I think that a teacher should be able to teach sharing, respect, understanding, confidence, reliability and even more and in order to do that she/he has to have a comprehensive knowledge of the other children's cultures and backgrounds and how to reconcile and adjust them to the reality of the guest country.

rossaco — 2017-03-05 18:47:16 UTC

Tania, Italy

2017-03-05 20:06:34 UTC

I work with students of 14-18 years old. Some of them came from east Europe, Africa and China. I‘m trying to improve my skills in order to promote the integration. My intention is to be an effective teacher on this cultural aspect to make easy the school- life of many boy and girl.

Marina, Italy Hi! I'm a teacher at primary school. My students are 6-10 years old. My school is in Emilia Romagna, north of Italy.In my class the most of pupils are Italian, some come from Pakistan, Marocco, Cina, Serbia, Albania. Some of them don't speak Italian language very well.I'm very interested on improving my skills to welcome immigrant students and building a classroom setting which aims to foster the encounter with other cultures. Thank you for this interesting course!

marinacampo — 2017-03-05 21:03:53 UTC

Brunella from Italy. I think that is important to tech in the best manner because each student must to come at school happy, every day. In this multicultural school the teachers can propose a suitable education for all students. I hope to increase my skills for intercultural necessity that my student every day require.

brunella_pedretti80 — 2017-03-05 21:27:42 UTC

Ourania, Greece

2017-03-05 21:57:11 UTC

Hi, My name is Ourania. I am Greek. I work as a french teacher in Primary School in a small town called Artemida. In my school there are many foreign students from different countries such as Albania, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania. In general, I teach in multicultural schools and I wish to discover effective ways to implement multicultural education in my classroom. I am very interested in the subject of multiculturalism, I find it challenging.I hope to learn a lot from this course.

Livia, Italy

liv_ann — 2017-03-05 23:45:45 UTC

I think it's essential nowadays to know how to orerate in a classroom where come student from every part of the world, to welcome and integrate them in the better way.

Giovanna, Italy

bysuriano — 2017-03-06 11:36:35 UTC

We live in a multicultural society and I think it is important to help our students to understand other cultures and build positive relationships. This course is an opportunity to share ideas, to reflect on multicultural education and to improve my intercultural teaching competences.

Roberta, Italy In Italy, during the last years, there are migratory flow from Africa and in my classrooms I have foreign students who don’t speak Italian with a lot of problems, this situation encourage me to take the course hoping to develop and adapt some ideas to my daily challenges.In this contest I believe it is basilar to learn about cultural diversity and have intercultural competence. At the beginning of the school year, in September, I ask to my foreign students (sometimes using drawings) to illustrate their experience and the reason of their migration and I also ask to speak about their city, their family; normally students are very interested to know about other culture, other language, other dishes etc. and make questions. This type of dialogue create empathy, respect and understanding for other cultures creating collaboration.

2017-03-06 14:24:56 UTC

Ionela Cristina Busuioc, Romania

2017-03-06 18:07:22 UTC

School where I teach is a multicultural and very important for me to teach students to be tolerant and to understand each other. This course is an opportunity to highlight the multicultural character through various specific actions.

Annamaria Italy

2017-03-06 18:32:54 UTC

Hello, my name is Annamaria and I am a teacher in a primary school in southern Italy. There are many pupils in my school who come from other countries like China, Nigeria, Sudan, Marocco and Serbia. I want to attend this course because I want to create an opened-minded background in my class to make the pupils appreciate and respect cultural diversity.

Annamaria, Hungary

tamex5 — 2017-03-06 20:11:19 UTC

I am interested in this subject

Melania, Italy

2017-03-06 20:30:56 UTC

I think it's very essential to know to operate in a classroom where come student from every part of the world, to welcome and integrate them in the better way.

Jenny Chartophilaka

2017-03-06 21:20:18 UTC

Hello, I'm an English teacher at a secondary school in Greece. I feel that this course will give me the necessary tools and know how to teach in today's school.

Maria, Italy

2017-03-06 21:58:52 UTC

I am taking part in the course to get an opportunity to share experiences of working with students coming from culturally diverse environment. In addition, I would like to learn new useful resources on the topic of cultural diversity in classrooms to develop my students' cultural awareness.

Manuela, Italy

manuelabasu — 2017-03-07 06:31:32 UTC

I am taking the course since I think dealing with cultural differences and learning to do it is fundamental in our societies which, nowdays, tend to be more and more multietnicals.

Alberto Santos, Portugal

2017-03-07 10:07:15 UTC

I think is important to work with my students the competence to know how to work with everyone. We can work all over the world and will not choose our co-workers. they have to experience this.

Annamaria South Italy (Molise)

2017-03-07 14:19:29 UTC

I live in a very small region (250.000 inhabitans) Even in the small villages there are a lot of students from many countries. It is very important that we teachers help our pupils to collaborate, to communicate, even in different languages, to exchange cultures. In this way we can dream and promote a peaceful way to learn from each other and be able to create new cultural forms for their future lives.

Antonella Sell

antonellasellia — 2017-03-07 15:40:49 UTC

I think that students with "special needs"due to their cultural and linguistic diversity should be considered an opportunity for their classmates and for their teachers as well. We have to see their condition more as a positive challenge than as a problem.

Carmelina Longo, Italy

2017-03-07 17:52:21 UTC

Caterina, Italy

2017-03-07 18:19:02 UTC

Even if I live in a small town where there aren't many students coming from culturally diverse environment, I do believe that a primary goal of education is to help all students become respectful of the multitudes of cultures and people that they are interacting with and will interact with once they exit the educational setting.
It is important to teach students that differences in viewpoint and culture are to be cherished and appreciated rather than judged and feared. This could help them respect and appreciate their own culture and heritage.

Elena, Greece

l_1_doug32_ed — 2017-03-07 19:23:59 UTC

I would like to improve my intercultural competence and my students as well. In the class students needs to cooperate to get the work done and it is a kind of rehearsal for their future, where they have to collaborate to a multi-cultural job market. To succeed that, they need to learn to respect each other and their culture. I hope through this course I will guide them to this achievement.

Maria Donato - Italy

marianna_donato_md — 2017-03-07 22:21:43 UTC

I think it is really important to learn how to collaborate and cooperate with other people and learn how to respect them and their culture. We are the world

Behlül AKYOL,Turkey

2017-03-07 22:43:01 UTC

It is very important to prepare an inclusive lesson plan that considers cultural diversity. Understanding and understanding are related to one's past experiences. In an environment where cultural diversity is not considered, the sensitivity and responsiveness of the people are ignored.

Chiara Semplicini, Italy

2017-03-08 06:49:51 UTC

Today intercultural competence has become extremely important, both on the side of teachers and students.
I work in a multicultural environment where cultural differences should play a mayor role in classroom practices.
I am taking this course because I feel the need to become more skilled in communicating and teaching across different cultures and, of course, in engaging students of different economic, social, racial and cultural backgrounds. I am also very interested in sharing opinions and experiences with colleagues (here and at school) as I strongly believe that cooperation at all levels is the core of intercultural competence.

Maria, Naples.

giordanomaria — 2017-03-08 09:02:51 UTC

Diversity is an intrinsic part of the nature of man.  Each individual it has characteristics that make it different from others, unique and special. 

So the presence of different cultures in school represents a growth opportunity for both students and all teachers.

The school can promote the development of the potential of each. To achieve this objective, teachers have to understand the characteristics, the needs and the

requirements of each individual so they can implement different educational strategies.

The school must teach children and young people to respect others without preconceived notions, stereotypes and prejudices.

Anastasia, Greece Hello everyone!My name is Anastasia and I teach Greek in a intercultural primary school in Greece! My students are between 7 and 9 years old and they come from different backgrounds. This online course with teachers from all over Europe is very interesting! Best wishes, Anastasia

atopalidou2 — 2017-03-08 10:07:28 UTC

Arvin

2017-03-08 15:38:36 UTC

I am taking part in this course because of my interest in multiculturalism, backed up by my studies in social issues, my voluntary activity of helping immigrants in integrating in Europe, and the work in the Erasmus+ programme as an organiser of training projects. I put a lot of effort in promoting intercultural encounters and dialogue in every training I organise because my direct experience of an integrating migrant in Italy taught me that school is the most important place to shape the attitude of both young migrants and locals towards coexistence of differing cultures in a same social context. In fact, through the pupils, you have an influence not only on the pupils themselves, but on their families, on their peer groups, in their migrant and religious communities, and ultimately on the way they will shape the society.

Bianca, Romania

2017-03-08 17:53:07 UTC

I think this course will help me learn more about how to approach teaching in a multi-ethnic school.

Angela, Italy

2017-03-08 22:02:49 UTC

Talk about cultural diversity in schools is very important for our society.

I'm taking the course and I feel it is important to learn about cultural diversity in our classrooms, because cultural diversity it's a richness to our lives.

Livio Italy

2017-03-09 06:16:16 UTC

I'm taking the course because in our school this is an imperative because of the high percentage of strangers who arrives in all period of time and with a continuos increase of intensity. School is our home, pupil's home, a place where they must feel a familiar ambient, so it's important to adapt not only the child at the school, but the school at the child, who can personalize classes, uses, moods, ways of being, to feel himself at home.

Loredana, Italia Hi everybody! My name is Loredana! I teach Italian, History and Geography in lower secondary school, in a little town where you can find some important communities of people coming from abroad, looking for job. I'm really interested to learn new different way to arrange classes where cultural diversity is really deep. I need to learn how to improve my methodology and to translate these differences into great advantages for students. They need to share their different experiences and I feel that my job is to let them able to do that!

artestudio_sa — 2017-03-09 17:41:02 UTC

Valeria ,Italy

2017-03-09 21:42:22 UTC

Hello everibody! In my opinion it's very important talk about cultural diversity in the school .In our society the cultural diversity enriched with new experiences our life.

we live a multicultural society and everyday we face students with a special background. As teachers we should plan and adopt special efforts in order to stimulate differences and give a special value to it. Difference is a plus. It is worth noting that students are not aware enogh on how world is changing so our dity is to guide them in this path

2017-03-10 10:17:30 UTC

Elena, Italy

2017-03-10 16:20:20 UTC

Hello!
The cultural diversity in the school is very important for the child, the teachers and the society.

Lucia,Italy

2017-03-10 22:40:06 UTC

Hi everybody! My name is Lucia. I teach English in a primary school in Lamezia Terme,Calabria.
In my class there aren't students coming from foreign countries, but in the last years I had classes with foreign students.
I'd like to understand have to make cultural diversity into a resaurce.

Anastasia, Italy

2017-03-12 15:43:52 UTC

I believe cultural diversity is a good thing to talk about. In our school the presence of foreign students could lead us to "a new culture of diversity", seen as a possibility to open our minds to unknown worlds

2017-03-12 18:09:53 UTC

Cultural diversity is an opportunity for me to understand where the world is wrong that welcomes. Ai was not raised this issue in Roman times even, everything was piùlibero and integrated.

ALEXANDRU BISCOVEANU, ROMANIA

2017-03-13 20:48:12 UTC

Cultural means the best way to feel rich.So our students must be richer

Erdem GÜLER

2017-03-15 07:16:30 UTC

Hi, there are 30 immigrant students in our school. This training will be very useful.

Raffaella,Italy

raffaella_papini — 2017-03-15 11:56:56 UTC

In my school .... In the class students needs to cooperate to get the work done and it is a kind of rehearsal for their future, where they have to collaborate to a multi-cultural job market.

Iuliana, Romania

iulyanaivan — 2017-04-08 15:07:35 UTC

It is important to talk to students about cultural diversity to make them tolerant.

Betty-Greece

2017-05-02 20:28:48 UTC

All we are different even we share the same culture we have different bavkground and experience. It is very important i think all children to understand that each person is unique and it is opportunity to learn for different countries and cultures. But despite of the colour that we have all we feel with the same mode.

Isabel Quirino, Portugal

isabelquirino — 2017-11-08 18:26:53 UTC

In my school, being an immigrant is a risk factor to school sucess. I think we must learn to support this kids and their families, because all people have the same rights

Ulfet, Turkey

2017-11-10 16:09:42 UTC

Having different cultural background in my classes make us more powerful and colourful. This is the most crucial thing to share diversity in a positive way

Mary V.

2018-10-13 01:13:17 UTC

I live a very culturally diverse region and the more I can learn, the better I can accommodate my students.