My first padlet by Sarella https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol Dealing with ICT - Learning about Cultural Diversity at school en-us 2016-09-28 14:37:29 UTC 2026-02-27 19:43:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dootheets.png simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/126983375 Hi everybody! My name is Simona, I'm from Italy and I work as a special needs teacher in an upper secondary school with 14-19 year students. I usually help students with some kind of disability but always more frequently foreign students attend our school, so they can be considered as some kind of BES (students with special educational needs). They often are adopted children or their family has come to Italy to work. We also host in our classes foreign students for international exchange programs.]]> 2016-09-28 14:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/126983375 My little town simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/126987494 I teach in a small town, situated in a quite big italian island, Sardinia. So far we hadn't known closely migrants issue yet but recently we have. There are a lot of boys wandering in the streets and unfortunately none of them attend school yet. Not yet, but I suppose it will soon.
Nevertheless, there is a wonderful experience of integration and hope, the local "Pagi" football team, exclusively made up of migrants 


]]> 2016-09-28 14:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/126987494 My school simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/126993619 In Italy we call it "Liceo Scientifico", an upper secondary school where students can learn many different subjects, from Latin to Philosophy to Maths and Science, and of course English language. Our students usually enter University after high school diploma. In our lessons we regularly use  LIMs, that is to say interactive dashboard, linked to computers and to the Net.]]> 2016-09-28 15:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/126993619 Teaching and learning with the LIM ... simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127002365
]]> 2016-09-28 15:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127002365 Module 1.1 simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127021760 Why address cultural diversity in schools?
Cultural diversity is something similar to individual diversity. We are all different! We are different in terms of skills, abilities, personal biographies, aptitudes, interests and so on... Cultural diversity is a great benefit because it can force us to consider even our non foreign students as individuals... Maybe sometimes we forget it!
]]> 2016-09-28 16:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127021760 Module 1.2 Developing intercultural competence as a teacher simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127025572 To be open-minded is the key sentence. If we're not curious and empathic with our students, if we're not open to professional challenges we won't be ready to approach multiculturality at school.
To be open-minded is not having a fracture in the cranium :-)


]]> 2016-09-28 16:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127025572 1.4 Developing intercultural competences of your students simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127028034 KNOWLEDGE is the answer, and promoting high order thinking skills in students, teaching them to compare, analyse, criticize, evaluating. Unfortunately young people have often prejudices, due to lack of experience and to the influence of the adults, especially nowadays, when migrants issue is so debated.
Apart from thinking skills, feelings and emotions are also crucial to help students become acquainted with cultural diversity and get in deeper touch with foreign students.
]]> 2016-09-28 16:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127028034 2.1 Example activities to develop students' intercultural competence simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127080985 I totally agree with what Ang3, Italy said. Very good strategies:

"Really interesting is to use some internet devices such as Skype. Internet environment is  important. I personally used more and more time one of the projects of Erasmus +: Etwinning to discover different culture and let pupils to be curious about the "different." Dramas and roleplays  are also useful to engage learning activity".
]]> 2016-09-28 18:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127080985 2.3 Webinar 22nd September, 18:30h CEST - The language profile simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127083451 Very impressive! Competence and sensitivity both present in this webinar. Wonderful idea to ask children to talk about their languages and associate them with colours and parts of the body.]]> 2016-09-28 18:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127083451 2.4 Creating a sense of belonging and identity in your class and school simozuc https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127085302 Having the same goals as students of a classroom and of the entire school, share critical values and see them put into effect. That's a starting point for multicultural sensitivity and an objective as well.]]> 2016-09-28 18:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/simozuc/4s9n749n1lol/wish/127085302