Developing intercultural competence as a teacher by Teacher Academy

Casian Marian, Romania

2017-02-20 15:48:47 UTC

I believe that every teacher take into account the particularities group of students. Cohesion of the group of students lead to mutual understanding and to the favorable settlement of problem situations.

ALINA POPA--ROMANIA

popalina21 — 2017-02-20 16:24:24 UTC

Definetly it is a big challenge as a teacher to teach to different social groups and more then that , when they are mixed. That is why we have to be in the same time attentive to the psihological part near oedagogical methods in teaching . And here comes the challenge not easy most of the tiime.

Marcella Tarigetto- Italy

minnie14 — 2017-02-20 16:24:59 UTC

I think the most important area is " Be open to new things " The biggest challenge is to "learn what I don't know"review my resources, approach, methodology in order to develop the competences to be an interculturally teacher as well.

I agree with Marcella Tarigetto. I also think the greatest challenges for teachers could be to move out of the comfort zone, to be aware, and to create or adapt the teaching/learning materials so that we can go beyond a stereotypical view of a country and its people. For example, the pictures or the names are highly stereotypical on schoolbooks and they don't reflect real life around us in the 21st century at all.

2017-02-20 16:43:05 UTC

Marina

2017-02-20 16:46:36 UTC

To became an interculturally competent teacher I need to work the most on "to be open to try new things and integrate different resources" but not only because in our classes there are students coming from abroad. If I think when I started teaching, I cannot be the same because students are very different so I "must" change my way of teaching if I want to "integrate myself" to the school of the 21st century!

Maria Intrieri, Roma-Italy

mri5 — 2017-02-20 17:34:18 UTC

I found the Tomislav video and essential and meaningful.
Based on my current personal experience, I think in order of fundamental importance:
1) teaching the language of the country that gives asylum: this is the prerequisite for any other sharing
2) discuss the ethical and cultural values and reach a reasonable compromise
3) offer help to foreign guy to create authentic relationships based on common values.
Only after throwing these first bases we can transmit our culture, our traditions, to communicate our national identity.

CHIARA P. - ITALY

possa_ — 2017-02-20 17:55:47 UTC

I believe that the last video is the most complete and meaningful. each of those components (language, education, social identity, family environment and community relations) is very important. I think it is necessary to develop them all, especially the languages, identity and relationships.

Dora, Greece

ntanouth — 2017-02-20 18:02:33 UTC

Teachers structure their teaching to acknowledge different perspectives. Structured classroom activities can highlight diversity. In this way students learn that each person in a group can contribute and has something of value to say.

Toni Rome

2017-02-20 18:03:25 UTC

Many students come from different countries, and in the secundary school, in which I work, a very much number of students come from Africa and China, but also from Russia or East countries. The problems are very strong. The italian language often isn't known. The cultural differencies and the traditionals customs are very different. The solution isn't simple. But the integration must be tried with liberal thinking and friendly relationships. It has to be tried forward and coltivated the socialization between students, it has to be superated the problems and difficulties of the language and customs, the students have to collaborate with the their teachers to open themselves to new ideas.

Melania, Italy

melany_383 — 2017-02-20 18:08:27 UTC

I Teach in Rome where there are a lot of students from Romania or from other East Europe countries and I think is so important opening our point of view to other cultures and to understand how our backgrounds can influence our lessons. I have to work on my teacher resources for improving my methodologies.

Claudia . Italy

2017-02-20 18:12:52 UTC

entrambi i viedeo hanno dato spunti
interessanti. ho sempre lavorato a Milano, città multiculturale dove ogni giorno ci dovemo confrontare con diverse realtà. quasi settimanalmene c'erano nuovi inserimenti e quasi sempre i bambini non conoscevano la lingua italiana. come primo step per noi era importantissimo l'accoglienza e subito dopo attivare percorsi, laboratori L2 per permettere agli alunni di sentirsi accolti e parte del gruppo. un altro passo era la condivisione delle esperienze dei bambini della classe. questo permetteva ad ognuno di loro di sentirsi accettato e si creavano dei momenti imprtanti di condivisone di gruppo.

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2017-02-20 18:14:26 UTC

my students are all from greece

pierolauro — 2017-02-20 18:35:51 UTC

Pietro- Italy
Hello there, I am Pietro and I teach french in a High school in Trani (culinary high school). I have been teaching 4 years now and I like to deal with so many interesting topics about cooking as a modern art with my students who come from different countries and different cultural backgrounds. I let all of them express their potential skills and encourage them to create their future working path. I love my job and my greatest reward lies in the gratitude I always see in my students' eyes.

Cinzia DM-Italy

2017-02-20 18:39:24 UTC

I agree with all three. We have to use and promote what can be other from our culture during the lesson. In order that no one will fell diversity in the culture, we are all the same! We can look different from each other but we have to accept it and understand that "different" is ok.

I agree with every words spoken by our collegues. We can't limit ourselves teaching l2 language and our culture. We have to know first of all their culture and appreciate it: I think it could be the right way for them to begin learning another language.They need we take care of their emotions first of all.

2017-02-20 19:27:30 UTC

Angela, Italy

malgibra — 2017-02-20 20:17:08 UTC

As usual in teaching, first of all, we have to create an emotional feeling, a real empath relationship with our kids,. This can give us the possibility to reach the goal that is a real integration between foreigners students and natives. However I think that foreigners have to save their traditions and culture but at the same time they have to acquire the host country ones.

Antonio Hans

dilegami — 2017-02-20 20:31:00 UTC

The challenge to become a competent multicultural teacher is to know how to accept the other and always get involved

Ana, Portugal

acfilipe36 — 2017-02-20 22:59:37 UTC

The activities carried out by the teacher are always marked by constant challenges and always with the objective of finding the best path of teaching and learning. In order to work on intercultural diversity it is necessary for him to have such an ability to understand aspects such as inclusive education, technical preparation and to understand the importance of information technology.
I agree with all three, Alicia, Erika and Tomislav.

Juan from Spain

TeacherJB — 2017-02-20 23:18:36 UTC

Multicultural matters are the essence of my subject teaching. No matter which subject we are teaching, diversity should be preveserved at any cost. Understanding diversity (of origin, interests, ethnicities, etc) is crucial for understanding our learners.

Angela Maria , Ital

2017-02-20 23:28:56 UTC

I thing that the positive attitude of a teacher who talks about differences with kids is fondamental. We don't have all the answers and we must deal with a lot of problems (languages, habits ..) but we can also starting macking answers and triyng to create our class material . Focusing at the relationship that are created during the learning process can contribute to develpod intercultural competences in very young learners.

Bento, Porto

2017-02-21 00:14:06 UTC

All the sentences are very important. Alicia's idea of the thematic days has already been used in my school with a remarkable success.

One way we can demonstrate the usefulness of multiculturalism with great adherence is using projects like Erasmus + or eTwinning in our schools.

Anita, Italy

2017-02-21 07:34:02 UTC

I perfectly agree with Alicia about discussing own values as teacher firts.Sometimes we forget our background and it's comfortable to protect it .So we can't easily understand the others.Our personal values are the first attitudes eith our pupils/students .I also agree with Erika about "cultural challenges" for teachers.A teacher who works in a multicultural context has to be openminded before and willing to share her/his values with newcomers.Important "tools" are certenly languages competencies , but also a "non-verbal" competence to interpretate the others and their meanings.All competencies about "social impact" are required , so we have certenly to be willing to learn that

Nalan ;Turkey

eney — 2017-02-21 08:03:42 UTC

Feeling different is OK ,is realy important and i think the hardest part.Because even within our own families we sometimes have difficulty to appreciate "the different", so thinking it is ok with a stranger may sometimes be the biggest challenge.Self improvement and being aware of the world around can help us be an interculturally competent teacher.

Cristina, Italia

2017-02-21 08:44:05 UTC

I agree with the words of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. Teachers should try to get out from their comfort zone to explore new teaching methods and encourage integration. The biggest difficulty, for me, is time. It’s not easy to think and create new strategies or materials, most of all when in a school there are few resources and not enough people. Working alone in a class with many differences of cultur and school levels is a hard challenge.

Antonina, Italy

antonellapusateri — 2017-02-21 09:34:50 UTC

The idea that a good teacher should always be ready to explore different worlds than usual and therefore known to him, is always alive in me. The class teacher too often disdains the update and afraid of innovations, but, as teachers, these are two of the things that they should live very far from us. A good teacher is one who always knows how to catch up with the times, that does not necessarily accept change brings with it negative news. Often, just the change, is a source of positivity. We work with young people, who, by definition, live a different world from the one in which we grew up, with other values, other priorities. A good teacher must have this great ability to accept and adapt to change. Indeed it should just promote it in the knowledge that only the dynamic, not the static, favors the harmony of living.

Monica, Italy

2017-02-21 09:43:34 UTC

It’s true. I always have to think about my personal history and my communication skills as Erika suggests. In according to which I have to find good tools to use in class as Alicia says: analysis of different countries, comparison of them by highlighting the different points of view as a starting point to reflection. All this to do with videos, many texts or oral presentation about different habits ( this for the first 2 fields Tomislav talks about). Thanks to these descriptions and analysis we can discover the social identity of each one and also the personal background coming out from the education received at home (parental involvement is a key point to understand someone’s behaviour). Step by step it is possible to create a good and a collaborative atmosphere in class to build solid and positive relationships.

Ioanna, Greece

stafilakou67 — 2017-02-21 09:47:35 UTC

I agree with the words of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav.Intercultural competence requires self-awareness of the teacher himself, the comprehensive understanding of their own cultural - national identity free from prejudices, fears and stereotypes.

It requires the development of empathy and understanding towards the different, recognizing the value of other cultures.

The development of strategies and techniques for a better communicative situation, recognition, acceptance and cooperation

It is very important for the school to develop partnerships with the local community, the families of refugees and migrant organizations, to serve as mediation points between school and refugees with a view to improving communication and enhancing the conditions for successful integration

Maarit, Sweden

2017-02-21 09:54:18 UTC

Great points. I fully agree. I am kind of in advanced level personally as a teacher living multicultural and diverse life. I have been born to one of the most monocultural countries in the Europe. This is a cahallenge in Finland for everyone. I need to learn Arabic which has not been possible to study in the University of Turku. But it is possible in Sweden. I think this will be my greatest challenge language with fylly new alphabetic system.

Tania, Italy

vitale_tania — 2017-02-21 10:10:50 UTC

I agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. Teachers can't remain in their comfort zone. They have to explore new teaching methods to support integration.

Personally, I find it stimulating and respondent to my inclinations.

Cindy, Belgium

slietjeboontje — 2017-02-21 10:27:04 UTC

I agree with the part about the competences of the teacher : it is not just about teaching the students how to live in an intercultural world, it is also about showing them you have equal respect for each of them. In my experience, parent involvement and community relationships are still not fully exploded. It is too easy to say that parents are not involved, but we build a lot more and easy bridges by actually involving the parents in het whole story. This takes time and effort, I have to visit a lot of them at home before we take that first step. In my experience, working on relationships with the community is also very rewarding, for the school, the students and the community itself.

Alessia, Italy

ales_sia — 2017-02-21 10:36:26 UTC

the hardest challenge for a teacher is coming out from the "comfort zone" and realise that there is much to learn from students...

Annibale Italy

formeverlab — 2017-02-21 13:15:20 UTC

I consider very important the social identity, parental and community involvment and I wuold like to work on it. My challange will be to increase the involvment of parents and community.

Francesco Coppola, Italy

fscocoppola — 2017-02-21 13:35:48 UTC

The empathy, I think, is the most important skill of a teacher in a intercultural classroom. We have to think and feel as our stranger students think.
The diversity is an opportunity but can be a limit and a source of misunderstandings. So when we go into the classroom, at the first, we have to undress of our prejudices and to see to the students with open mind; after, we have to accord our conduct to the habits and culture of the students.
I remember when a was a professor of Italian language at Benghazi University, Libya, I proposed to my students some Italian films which were not suitable to that public because there were scenes of kisses. It was ridiculous or strange for me but gradually I learned to respect the sensibility of my students.

Clara, Italy

2017-02-21 13:40:41 UTC

I totally agree with Alicia when she says that teachers should be more open to new experiences. The majority of us is really convinced his/her job consists only in transferring contents. But, everyday we have real people in front of us and it''s quite compulsory trying to know each other even out of our roles. That's what Erika said at the beginning. First of all, we have to know ourselves in the various aspects of our lives. In my teaching experience with foreign students, I've tried to do my best in this sense. The aspect I wish to improve, because in truth I had never thought about it, is the relationships with parents. Indeed the dialogue between teacher and parents is always present, but regarding cultural diversity, I think parents could be a great mine of information and advice for the teachers dealing with different cultural identities.

Francesco, Italy

2017-02-21 14:04:59 UTC

I agree with every collegues. In my classroom I activate a lot of strategies ( like cooperative learning) about inclusion and integration of all students ( immigrants, italian students and, above all, children with some disability).

Casian, Romania

2017-02-21 14:26:34 UTC

Lucia, Italy

2017-02-21 14:28:35 UTC

I agree with Alicia and all of you. In my lessons I try to involve the different students also in cultural activities, using their names, or talking about their traditions etc. The most difficult thing to me is to talk with foreigner parents and to include them in the classroom life, specially if they are newcomers.

Mara, Italy

mara_mosca77 — 2017-02-21 14:52:22 UTC

Don't be scared of the unknown but be open and curious towards diversity. This is what our colleagues basically explain in their videos.For me it' s not easy to make the students interested in new migrants peers because I teach in a very small island and especially parents are not very open minded.So my challenge is to give the chance to our migrant students to talk about their countries, their languages, habits and traditions, to give them the space to express themselves with their own words.

mara_mosca77 — 2017-02-21 14:57:55 UTC

Anna Laura, Italy

anna_simonini — 2017-02-21 15:00:52 UTC

when you think to your pupils as single persons, and not as a number, when they come first, before the programmes, you'll be really involved in their lives, and if they are immigrates, in their problems as well. I usually try to let them speak about their countries, or about simple things as a lullaby, or the flag of their Country, and I'm happy to see they're proud of their identity. It's a pity when parents, if one of the two is italian, don't teach the mother tongue of the foreign parent.

Rosa, Italy

rosa_mazza — 2017-02-21 16:07:08 UTC

some years ago I lived in an Arabic country for a few months, so I had a first person experience of what the life of a newcomer could be, because I was on the other side for a while. This experience has been precious and I've realized how important is to open our mind to the new and quit all the sterotypes and prejudices linked to the other cultures, so I agree with Alicia when she says that teachers should move out their comfort zone and give space to the diverse: this is , in my opinion,the biggest challenge for an intercultural competent teacher. I also think we all need to work on updating and improving our methodology, even if many of us have been teaching for a lot of years, it's necessary to adopt new strategies and to abandon old methods not more successful in today school context.

Maria, Greece

mampla78 — 2017-02-21 16:13:48 UTC

We have to think of our background, to understand ourself and then the others. It's important for a teacher to try new things out, allow space for the newcomers and not worried so much about the academic success fo the students. For example: organise national days, read folk stories from other countries, involve parents in school projects, build community relationships.

Simona, Italy.

simcardamone — 2017-02-21 16:39:38 UTC

As English teacher I have been travelling a lot since I was a secondary school student. I have always been interested in what was different from what was familiar to me: language, culture, religion, food...
I have lived abroad in Europe and in the UAE, this latter, was a very important and precious experience for my peronal growth because I was the outsider, I felt beeing the newcomer and I had to deal with some prejudices and sterotypes. That's why I am very sensitive to all foreigners.
For me it is extremely important to be open to new things and to integrate them, not only at school but also in daily life. Diversity makes richer and more interesting life.

Sara Maria - Italy

2017-02-21 16:55:49 UTC

I think that Alicia, Erika and Tomislav outlined very important concepts, I can't say which are the most important. I liked very much what Alicia said about knowing who you are and develoing awareness of your own identity: This may seem obvious, but it isn'. I think I need to be more open to new things and the biggest challege for me is to make intergration a cross curricolar theme.

Tiziana, Italy

tiziana_aq — 2017-02-21 16:58:13 UTC

I think the focus should be on our sense of identity that allows us to not be scared of the "other" and on the importance to be open minded

Merja, Finland

2017-02-21 17:12:12 UTC

I spent my childhood in Sweden, in a small town that had immigrants from many different countries. I never really paid any attention to the fact that my friends came from different cultures. For me, it has always been okay to be different. I think accepting and willingness are important key words when talking about interculturally competent teachers. It is necessary to move out from the comfort zone and find the courage to explore new identity levels. And still, that is the only way to learn new things from others and to accept difference.
I think the biggest challenge for me will be to get others to participate - parental involvement and community relationships are demanding tasks, especially here in Eastern Finland, where cultural diversity is a new issue for many people.

Marco Italy

2017-02-21 17:18:55 UTC

I think that the most important area is the relationship between the different cultures. All people need to see with differents point of view the same fact and share own idea than improove a discussion about it. I think important the area of Tomislav and work on each point that he made a list

Cristina Italy

cristina_floriddia — 2017-02-21 17:20:48 UTC

I think that the most important point is people quality, so a lot fv activities must increase knowledg and good aspect of each culture.
The biggest challege is integrate each different curriculum

Claudia, Milan, Italy

2017-02-21 17:34:06 UTC

Livia Micaela Centonze, Italy

liviacentonze_lc — 2017-02-21 18:04:15 UTC

I think that effective teachers of culturally diverse students have to acknowledge both individual and cultural differences enthusiastically and identify these differences in a positive manner. This positive identification creates a basis for the development of effective communication strategies. Social skills. such as respect and cross-cultural understanding, can be taught and reinforced by the teacher thanks to motivating activities.

Valentina - Italy

valebell80 — 2017-02-21 18:25:25 UTC

I think the process of integration of children or adults from other countries has a bidirectional structures. The teacher should involve not only foreign student but the whole class group. I’m agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav to use original name of students, discover their cultural traditions, taste their food, speak about their religion. We should do this at school and in our private life (restaurants, movies, books, ecc). If the teacher will be carefull to diversity and multiculturalism children will too. Problem could be to include and involve parents (foreign and Italian) in class life.

Sara - Florence Italy

sara_ferraiuolo — 2017-02-21 19:44:23 UTC

Each one background should not compromise our capacity of being neutral in the teaching world. Integration is easier if we start knowing this from kids; we need to share and accept new and different things withouth expecting these things to be "similar" to ours os meaningfull in any way.

Katia - Italy

2017-02-21 19:48:04 UTC

In my opinion the thoughts of Alicia, Erika and Tomislov are very interesting because they have focused a new teaching method to encourage into integration of different cultures. One of the most difficult thing is, sometimes, to involve the families, they often don't speak the language of the new country so it's hard to exchange informations. It's though important to manifest, in other ways, that you accept them as all the others in your school, no differences in love...maybe just in didactics.

Jenny-Italy

jennydurso — 2017-02-21 19:50:56 UTC

I agree with almost all the areas analyzed by Alicia, Erika and Tomislav.

The first step to become a more intercultural teacher is to be open to the others so as Erika asserts.

A teacher who is aware of his own culture is able to open up to people of other cultural backgrounds. In his program a competent teacher pays attention to the different cultural backgrounds of the pupils ,for example cultural festivities(Alicia), is creative. On the other side the 5 areas expressed by Tomislav(language-pedagogy-social identity-parental involvement-community relationships) include accurately the best attitude of a competent cultural teacher. Of these areas I need to work on community relationships : it is very difficult to involve and cooperate with a working environment that isn’t ready to hear, to feel the others. My biggest challenge? is to go on every day with my opinions, my own work with the other.

Rosa Giuliano, Italy

2017-02-21 20:30:11 UTC

I think that the main and most important aspects are:

1. Be aware of our personal, social, background. We are what we have experienced and learned during our life and we have to consider how this can influence our teaching to foreign students and how much we are tied to our points of view.

2. Move from our Comfort Zone. The second step is to do something different, to experience what is new, trying to understand it and showing respect of what is different. Four years ago I had seven students coming from different parts of Africa. They were minors and they arrived in Italy without their parents, some of them have lost their families. When I met them for the first time I felt they didn't trust me ( a stranger and a woman!) and I think they felt I was scared, too! I was facing something I wasn't prepared to do. I had to break through the wall! I spent days and nights to understand how to do it. Finally a day I went into the class and I started to greet them in their language! I had spent the previous day to find a FULA dictionary on line and to learn some sentences (at school I had pieces of paper hidden in my pocket but they didn't notice them!). From that moment it was love. I think I showed them respect, they understood I was really interested in them.

3 Parental involvement. As Mr Tomislav Tudjiman says, parents are essential to our students carreer. This could be a problem, I think. Sometimes parents are skeptical and they cause to be useless all your efforts. They don't trust you and that's another WALL to break through!

I think that before teaching what we know we have to create empathy with our students.

Andreea, Sweden

2017-02-21 20:43:46 UTC

For me that the most important areas in becoming an interculturally competent teacher are: willingness to work with pupils, who have other backgrounds, the capacity of giving to those pupils the space to be what they are, curiosity, creativity, knowledge about social identity and also parental involvement. I am born and I lived in Romania, in a small town where I never saw people from other countries excepting the tourists. During my studies, I worked a lot for developing my multicultural aptitudes by participating in different international summer schools, projects and receiving an Erasmus scholarship. I grew a lot since then but I am still afraid to move out of my comfort zone.

Venditti Giovanni, Italy

2017-02-21 22:13:42 UTC

I firmly agree with them in accepting that there is the need to put onself in discussion and become aware to know or discover oneself in order to come to know what we are willing and able to teach. Moreover, it is important to be open and understand the needs of the learners and their interests in order to use the fittest strategy and way of communication, whether traditional or ITC. I wish to follow their suggestions and examples and, in particular I wish to improve my information technology competences to meet modern needs and learners. There is no particular content or way to follow but, as they suggest in the video, a teacher must blend the best of all he can dispose of. At the centre there must be cooperation, tolerance, openness and professionality. Among the five areas indicated, I think that it is very important to create barriers against the fear of the foreigner seen as the 'other'. Strategies like performances, role-playing, interaction and cooperation must be adopted.

Laura, Italy

proffybarbieri — 2017-02-21 22:36:44 UTC

I think it's very important, as a teacher, to be open to new ideas, ready to learn about new traditions, culture systems; a better understanding of the challenges my students are facing should help me in facilitating their new life...
The biggest challenge I see is how to find the right balance between acquiring new "input" and not losing their background references...

Nora, Italy

noraroxane — 2017-02-22 06:23:46 UTC

In these video I find my thoughts about intercurtural teaching. It's very important that the teacher is open to cultural background of foreign students, highlighting the common aspects with his culture. So the students can feel part of a new community. To facilitate integration the teacher must work about language, bearing in mind the foreign students are an incredible asset of knowledge to the whole class group. With Valentina and Katia I think that it'is need to involve parents too.

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece

2017-02-22 10:00:47 UTC

I have lived the cultural diversity, to an extent. My parents were born in regions in southern Greece, and came in Athens, Greece (the capital town in Greece) when they were adults. I was born and grown up in Athens, Greece. Athens is a city, where the cultural diversity is more evident (comparativerly to other regions in Greece) for two reasons: There haw been internal migration to Athens after WWII. When Greece became host country (for migrants, in the 1990s) Athens lived the cultural diversity to a greater extent . Therefore I feel that the cultural capital of teachers is improtrant in order to manage the cultural diversity.
It is extremely useful for the teachers to reflect on what they have lived with regard to the cultural diversity.
I think that the biggest challenge is to try to understand the cultural diversity: To what extent this diversity works in the context of the other, what is the utility of this diversity in the context of the other and so forth, what is the puprose of thiw diversity in the context of the other and so forth.

Aurora - Italy

aurorpagano — 2017-02-22 10:12:03 UTC

I am agree with the words of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. Diversity makes richer and more interesting life. It's important for a teacher involve parents in school projects and build relationships. Teachers have to explore new teaching methods to support integration and to create a good and a collaborative atmosphere in class to build solid and positive relationships. A good teacher must have this great ability to accept and adapt to change.

1.2. - Valentina Confido, Italy

valentinaconfido — 2017-02-22 10:17:03 UTC

After seeing the videos, I think the most important area to focus on to develop intercultural competence as teacher is our ability and willingness to exploit our own background to develop multi-cultural learning environments. We don't have to lose contact with our roots but we have to grow them using all kinds of inputs.
The area we definitely have to work on most is that of partents' involvement: in the area where I teach (and the south of Italy more generally speaking) being a teacher means facing daily problems with narrow-minded families. They feel threatened by anything: people from the "city", people from other villages, people with different skin colour... Students are obviously the product of this: so it is essential to keep a constant contact with parents, to also "educate" them understand what is going on when we work on cultural diversity in the classroom. That I think is a teacher's biggest challenge.

Alessandra B., Italy

beralessa_ab — 2017-02-22 12:14:38 UTC

I am completely agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. Firts step is to know who we are and to go aout to confort zone. I think that it is very important learning what the students don't know, to be curious, to know the background of our pupils and yo create a new social identity. This is a challenge

Stanislava Petrova, Bulgaria

sto_ati — 2017-02-22 12:58:43 UTC

Good words!
I think that we must be open to try new things. We must learn to think without stereotypes.

Luisa D, Italy

2017-02-22 13:09:35 UTC

I totallyagree with Alicia when she says that we have always to remember who we are, what our background is in order to be open to others, open to new things and integrate different resources.
In addition we must be aware of what our students' story is, what they would like to know and which are their difficulties in reaching their goal. As teachers we should help them in growing up and building their new social and cultural identity.

ANGELA FARETRA

angela_fare — 2017-02-22 14:00:40 UTC

The most important skill for me as a teacher in a cultural diversity context is to be flexible so as to cope with this changing environment. Sensitivity and respect are also very important. The biggest challenge though is the teacher's ability to adapt to the new and incorporate it in his/her teaching.

parental involvement & community relationships

2017-02-22 14:03:22 UTC

In my opinion it is very important to contact the pupils' parents to find out more information about them. We think in terms of stereotypical families but some of these children have lost their families and had to be "adopted" by others. All these elements and a load of others can help us a great deal in helping and accepting them. Another important issue is the environment that these pupils live. In our school they live in a camp a few kilometres outside the city and everyday they come to school by bus. Moving from one place to another is not the easiest thing and if they don't feel their families close maybe this makes the whole situation a bit hostile.
Building community relationships is the challenge for me. We teach refugee children in a friendly environment, we definitely try to do our best and this is because we are all participating in this course but the local community outside the walls and the playground of the school doesn't accept this new situation and there is always a "YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HER" in the atmosphere.

Pietro-Italy

pierolauro — 2017-02-22 14:46:22 UTC

I fully agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav, being a interculturally competent teacher requires an open-mind able to encourage students to develop their cultural identity they have to be ready at any time to share their values and beliefs with the others so that this profitable exchange can lead to the awareness that diversity is just the starting point to build self-esteem and long-lasting friendship.

Serena A. - Italy

dolcefollia79 — 2017-02-22 15:08:30 UTC

I agree with all areas analyzed by Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. The words heard are all true. I think that the first step to becoming an intercultural teacher is to be open to others as stated by Erika.
A teacher, who is aware of his own culture, is able to open up to people of other cultures. A competent teacher is attentive to diversity and the cultural background of the students, such as cultural festivals (Alicia). On the other hand the 5 Areas expressed by Tomislav (reports of involvement of community-identity-parent language-pedagogical and social) are the best attitude of a responsible cultural teacher. Often it is known that working on public relations in the community is difficult. It is not easy to engage and collaborate with a work environment that is not ready to listen, to hear others. You ask me what my biggest challenge? To go forward every day with my views, my work with the other.

Alessandra Gallina Italy

scrocchia67 — 2017-02-22 15:12:04 UTC

To develop intercultural competences as teachers is a long life job, in my opinion!
The first things that come to my mind are:
1. create and mantain a peaceful atmosphere in the class;
2. learn tolerance;
3. master the inevitable conflicts that could arise among foreign students;
4. be open to others;
5. be curious of other cultures because multiculturalism can certainly lead to acceptance.

The interculturally competent teacher should be, no doubt, a pedagogist and a sociologist. These are to me the basis of every action to migrant students, whether they are young or not. It's fundamental to get in touch with them , no matter how long this will take. They need to be part of a community and need someone to trust.

Lorenza Cairo

lorenzacairo — 2017-02-22 15:15:02 UTC

It is very important for a teacher to know his students needs. all needs such as cultural diversity. nowadays old Europe is interested of a great immigration, so teachers are the first invested in this problem, that is in the same time a resource.

Linda Carlos Ruiz, Finland

lindacarlosruiz — 2017-02-22 15:28:13 UTC

I agree with Alicia that the most important aspect of becoming an interculturally competent teacher is being open and curious about other cultures. As pointed out by Erika in the video I think that knowing yourself and your roots is also a very important part, but also the hardest part. Even if you know your origin and the traditions of your country, that doesn't mean you really know yourself. You have to actively think about your values and priorities.

Rossella, Italy

2017-02-22 18:48:13 UTC

it is important to develop the intercultural competences to improve teaching and integration of foreign students

Elena, Italy

2017-02-22 18:51:41 UTC

I think thatThe competent intercultural teacher figure becomes increasingly important in the school. Migrant pupils and their families need to be part of a community.

Valbona, Albona

valbona_mata2 — 2017-02-22 19:09:27 UTC

i am agree with Alycia.
that is a practic witch we use it on our classes.We tries to find to the students similar things and also find their positive values and their skills

Georgiana Crivat, Romania

2017-02-22 19:18:05 UTC

I certainly agree to all, Alicia, Erika and, Tomislav, but the most important thing to become an interculturally competent teacher is to know your students backgrounds, to put yourself in their places, and don't forget about communication - be opened to others, to their cultures, traditions, languages. We should share our students the differences and similarities between us, and try to find the things that we all have in common to become an interculturally competent teacher. So, as Tomislav said, we should be guided by those 5 important things to succeed.(language, pedagogy, social identity, parental involvement, and community relationships.

Anna Naddeo

2017-02-22 19:43:29 UTC

I make the learning process relevant to my students by adapting resources or providing examples that reflect their experiences. I'll try to integrate cultural diversity as a topic in my teaching beyond prescribed moments in the curriculum
Currently - there aren't foreign students in my classes

Seppe Hermans

sendtoseppe — 2017-02-22 19:44:03 UTC

I think equality and a basic level of respect for each other's differences are the most important values we can introduce into our classroom. Learn with each other, from each other.

Cristina Petre, Italy

2017-02-22 20:06:28 UTC

Sharing, that's important! Listening the students. Respect the other cultures. Trying to do lessons where each student brings ideas, experience, knowledge. I just do a course about Cooperative learning and I think it could be a good way for integration.

Mariangela Testa, Catania

2017-02-22 20:32:47 UTC

First, a teacher interculturally competent has to be able to being curious about other cultures, generous and open to others. At the same moment, when I teach my subject, in my mission, I am responsible also for public relations in my community, for tolerance, respect and relationship.

In a classroom, by the way, an attentive teacher encourages students to develop their personality, which depend on all their cultural identity (citizenship, family, background etc…). Alicia, infact, speaks about a cultural festivals...

Often, families are very opened in order to collaborate, but the real challenge is sharing the aims and collaborate with others operators in the same work environment.

In Sicily we have a large community of children migrants, often arrived by the sea without their parents. Their condition, at present, doesn’t permit them to attend school: they are hosts in camps of first reception, waiting for a pass or for a temporary accommodation. :-(

Fabiana, Italy

fabiana2 — 2017-02-22 21:16:14 UTC

I AGREE
100

Nina Krasylova (Ukraine)

nina_krasilova — 2017-02-22 21:20:03 UTC

In my opinion, a teacher should be open-minded and ready to learn new things and accept them and be tolerant even if they are not to his taste. Knowing cultural background of the students will definitely help a teacher to reach understanding. Sometimes the most difficult can be the social issue as it happens to Gypsies in Ukraine because community is not always tolerant to people from different cultures, especially if it is not multi-national community. Stereotypes work wrong here too. Teacher’s role here will be very important, they will have not only to help a student to adapt but to increase other people’s awareness about particular culture.

Giorgia, Romania

giorgiagroza — 2017-02-22 21:27:52 UTC

A agree with Alicia and also with Tomislav.The most important thing for a teacher who has to work in cultural diversity is to be open-minded, to accept that you always have something to learn, not just to teach, to respect each student and to apreciate his / her values, to try to understand their culture and habitudes.

Daniele - Ital

danvir — 2017-02-22 21:35:16 UTC

Which area of intercultural competenceis most important?
I think that as teachers we should help our students to feel confortable to be theirselves and so we should create an open-minded educative environment. I think that language is a great barrier, but probably the one we could face easier, because foreign students are immersed in country language. Probably one of the most difficult is being able to involve parents in school educative programmes. Another important thing is the relation between schools and territory in which the school is.

CHRISTOS GREECE

christos_chachoudis — 2017-02-22 21:40:54 UTC

FIRST OF ALL I AGREE 100% WITH TOMISLAV . SECOND I THINK WE ALL SHOULD HAVE OPEN MINDS IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND AND MEET THE DIFFERENT. WE SHOULD MAKE EVERYONE WHO IS DIFFERENT IN ANY WAY TO FEEL COMFORTABLE, ACCEPTED AND VALUED... THATS THE KEY TO HAVE DIVERSITY IN OUR CLASSROOM, EVERYONE IS UNIQUE AND ACCEPTED.

Carol (Italy)

carol_f — 2017-02-22 22:01:25 UTC

I think that all the area outlined by Alicia and Tomislav are important to become an intercultural compentent teacher. In the last two years I took part with a group of students and collegues in an Erasmus project and had an interesting experience in the project Educhange. These experiences have been a great opportunity for both, teachers and students, to develop Intercultural competences. Sharing experiences with our international partners we could live the same situations in different ways. We used to speak in English as a lingua franca.. Great experience!

sonia, spain

2017-02-23 08:11:12 UTC

showing respect and tolerance towards other cultures is the base of the interculturality and diversity. At the same time we show this attitude, we are integrating those students in our classes, schools and society

Paola from Reggio Emilia

2017-02-23 10:14:12 UTC

Open my mind and

Rosaria, Italy

2017-02-23 14:45:50 UTC

First of all, it is important to accept the diversity as a way to improve our culture and not to make difference

Tina Greece

tinamellos — 2017-02-23 15:08:44 UTC

1. Have open minds
2. accept the others for who they are, for their cultural background, religious and language heritage
3. Meet the 'different' as normal
5. Respect human dignity

Laura F. Italy

2017-02-23 15:10:53 UTC

Language; social identity and a comunity of relationships are the areas that I find particularly important. First of all you must know the diversity; if you know and if you are open to discover, you can respect.

Lucia, Italy

luciaanemoli — 2017-02-23 15:15:34 UTC

I consider important all the areas described by the Professors of the Teacher Academy. The areas that I want to explore are: language and pedagogy. I find particular difficulties in building relationships with the local community and involve the parents of foreign students at the school life of their children. Perhaps the biggest change in my teaching practice is to experiment with new methods. I hope to find the right suggestions in this course (books, links, other resources) to acquire the competence appropriate to the management of cultural diversity

Francesca, Italy

francescapulvirenti1 — 2017-02-23 16:49:01 UTC

I agree, all these aspects are very important. The competent intercultural teacher has to have deep competences in these areas and also be able in creating a warm and welcoming environment in the class. Psychology is very important because migrant children are in a situation of weakness facing a series of challenges and problems; In an age of their life of big physical changes, they have also to deal with a new and very different environment .

Alice Isabela, Romania

2017-02-23 16:52:02 UTC

Equality and respect for each other's differences are the most important values. Positive attitude of a teacher, who talks with his students, about cultural diversity, is very important.

Maria Marioara, Romania

lenuta_chis — 2017-02-23 16:55:19 UTC

A agree with Alicia and also with Tomislav. All these aspects are very important. Equality and respect for each other's differences is the most important values. Positive attitude of the teacher, Who talks with His students, about cultural diversity, is very important.

Rosa, Italy

2017-02-23 18:24:25 UTC

Choosing an integrated curriculum is a very good idea; also using names and topics from different cultures during the lessons to make students understand all cultures are diverse and important and deserve respect.

Lyuba, Italy

lyuba_centrone91 — 2017-02-23 18:26:45 UTC

Unfortunaletly in my context the good intentions often "crash" with reality. Because of politic propaganda, or just for a lack of education, many people are becoming intolerant and so also many children aren't so open mind just when they come to shool for the first time. I don't want to generalize, but my question is how to change mentality of young people just influenced from the violence of social network, from their parents (if they have intollerance mentality), from the cultural background.
This doesn't mean that there aren't wonderful experience of cooperation, tolerance and respect, but we have to reflect to problematic reality to find out the way...

Maria Luisa, Italy.

luisa_cedrone — 2017-02-23 19:41:12 UTC

I agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. I think a true intercultural teacher must be open minded to all aspects of the migrant students' cultural backgrounds. Now we have students which arrive with no parents at all. So we have to build a common path in which all class students could recognize. All tools, materials could be useful to reach the common goal.

George Kyriakopoulos

gkyriakopoul197 — 2017-02-23 19:55:59 UTC

I totally agree with the idea of first knowing thyself and your background as a teacher before delving into your students' cultural identity. In order to allow space for students, in order to accept holistically their presence in the classroom one has to be familiarised with
openess (that is quitting one's comfort zone). Contacting the students' cultures can be easily achieved by
integrating resources from other countries so as to aknowledge these very cultures.
So being open is of utmost importance. As far as skills are concerned among language, pedagogy, social identity, parental involvment and community relationships, I can't tell which one is most important...I think a skilled teacher ought to joggle more or less with all these skills.
For me the biggest chalenge of them all would be to have happy students laughing and participating in the classroom, feelling secure and proud of their learning environment.

Roberta C. - Italy

condomittir — 2017-02-23 22:00:08 UTC

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.

Rosaria Filippo, Italy

rosaria_filippo — 2017-02-23 23:29:34 UTC

A good teacher must have Intercultural sensitivity, marked attention, discussion skills, dialogue and listening. You can not imagine an intercultural training course without the ability to take different viewpoints putting in "someone else's shoes"!
Respect, empathy, flexibility, patience, interest, curiosity, openness, motivation, sense of humor, tolerance of ambiguity, the suspension of judgment, active listening, the cultural sensitivity, knowledge of other cultures. . These are all necessary elements.
The acquisition of intercultural competence requires a constant learning that is part of the continuous personal development, the ability to meet and negotiate with individuals from different cultures in an open, curious and impartial.
It is therefore necessary to rethink their mode of teaching through a modification of the content and methods; adopt attitudes favorable to the emergence of a "school climate" of openness and dialogue in the classroom and the development of a perception of diversity as a mutual enrichment; access to new knowledge to be able to manage this complexity.

Elena Chiş, Romania

lenuta_chis — 2017-02-24 06:42:50 UTC

In my opinion, all important fields described Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. The most important thing for a teacher to be working in cultural diversity must be open to accept that you always have something to learn to respect and appreciate the values of each student / her. Knowing cultural background of the students will definitely help a teacher to reach understanding. I hope to find suitable suggestions in this course (books, links and other resources) to acquire appropriate skills for managing cultural diversity.

laura brazzabeni - italy

2017-02-24 08:04:43 UTC

you have to be open to Others, be aware of differences and experiment what is new. food is very important for every culture especially in a vocational school as mine where students are studying to become cooks.
as a teacher learn what you do not know about migrant students but also trasmit italian culture to them. collaborative Learning: Teachers, Italian students, foreign students. but Always share mutual respect.

Paola from Italy, Reggio Emilia.

2017-02-24 08:14:32 UTC

I agree with three collegues. We have to open our minds and try to create a good climate between our students. On my experience, it is a good method the cooperative learning.

Anna P. - Italy I agree with Erika Hummer when she says that the first step to be open with others is know themselves well and reflect on own cultural environment. The next step should be the knowledge and comprehension of the other cultural contexts. Finally, the comparison between the different contexts and integration between different cultures. I think the biggest challenge to become an intercultural competent teacher is the integration between different cultures.

2017-02-24 09:38:14 UTC

Silvia-Italy

2017-02-24 09:46:20 UTC

È importante per questi bambini, l'integrazione in classe, attraverso il cooperative learning, attività di recupero in piccoli gruppi

Sara - Italy

sarabemporad — 2017-02-24 09:52:43 UTC

According to my colleagues, I think it's very important, as a teacher, to be open to new ideas. As I said, I teach in a Multicultural School, with 1/3 of foreigner students in each class I teach in. I love learning about new traditions, culture systems and so on and I love sharing them with my classes. During these years of teaching I learnt so many things about their families. Unfortunately it's not always simple to "cooperate" with our students families, things that would help to facilitate their integration with the society they actually live in. As a cultural fact I understood that in some cultures school education is not considered as important as in others. Consequently my students families are totally absent and it's impossible to work together for their children to let them live in their new school and in this new society with an eye to the future.

Irene, Italy

2017-02-24 10:14:40 UTC

I agree with all teachers comments especially when they say we have to open our minds, to reflect on our own backgraound, values, society influences...and also is very important to not transmit to students stereotypes about people and cultures but try to insert in each lesson something culturally different e.g. the characters of stories, pictures, lands...I agree also with the last one teacher about the main areas to consider when we approach with foreign students and therir parents. Finally if we open our minds maybe the cooperation will be positive.

Yuri, Italy

yurisab — 2017-02-24 11:17:06 UTC

As I am a specialist in history, I believe that a good knowledge of our own culture is very important to create a link with other cultures. I suppose that the most difficult problem is the one of the language, so in my opinion a good solution could be the use of the body languages and games and drawings that make cooperation and integration easier.

Eleni, Switzerland

eleni_mousena — 2017-02-24 11:59:15 UTC

I agree with all the areas pointed out by Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. However, I feel that the most important issue for an interculturally competent teacher is to be open- minded and imaginative. The biggest challenge for him/her would be to find different ways, strategies and material (story-telling, playing, theater/ muppet playing, drawing, singing, dancing, cooking, watching videos about historical incidents related to migration etc.) in order to teach diversity in class. Thus, all students would be happy and proud of their nationality, culture and history and understand and feel comfortable with diversity.

Claudia, Italy

2017-02-24 12:54:10 UTC

I agree with Alicia when she says we have got to question ourselves (know ourselves) to be able to open up to different cultures. Like all three of our colleagues I reckon it Is important that we handle differences as something absolutely normal and naturally welcome.

Vanesa, Croatia

2017-02-24 16:21:34 UTC

I agree with everything said. In my opinion we have to be open-minded and recpect each other.

Maura, Italy

mauraccia — 2017-02-24 16:29:09 UTC

As far as Iam concerned, the trouble is with the first points in Tomislav's list. Nowadays would-be primary school teachers have to attend a university with exams and experiences specifically designed to build a real expertise on teaching habits (here another question arises: is it worth paying the fee to a private and expensive university and studying a lot when you can become, with the same effort, a far better paid, easily employed, socially renomated engineer? I think it's an effective way to select, from the very beginning, only the strong motivated...). But for teachers around fifty things were really different: I studied for four years to become a primary school teacher (Istituto Magistrale) and, then, at the university, I followed a fac intended to train teachers (Magistero Materie Letterarie) but we didn't study almost anything about the real thing and, then, we had to learn the hard way. The problem is: improvisation is good when you are naturally talented, but disastrous in every other case. You can enroll in money and time demanding masters or attend a lot of different courses, as Alice seems to suggest but, in my opinion, they can integrate a strong core, not substitute one. I feel that in job training can't compensate for a weak initial one. Of course we try to focus on all the matters listed by Alicia (in regard of cross-curricular approach, I'm testing EAS, a method that seems to perfectly integrate in every step, from planning to evaluation, flipped classroom, ICT, cooperative learning, skills integration; and a popular passtime in my class is to erase word "races" from textbooks...) but I find that Erika has found the key point here: if someone, deeper down, don't really believe that it's worth going all this way for his students, he'll just do things as a show, to justificate himself. I should really know who I am, which are my limits, why something in a student particularly hurts me to accept myself along with the others.

ROBERTA, SARDINIA (ITALY)

2017-02-24 17:32:38 UTC

EACH CONCEPT THAT I'VE JUST HEARD IS VERY IMPORTANT. IN PARTICULAR I'VE MOVED THANKS TO ALICIA WORDS (WHEN SHE SPEAKS ABOUT THE STEREOTYPES WE USE WHEN WE TEACH). IT'S SO DIFFICULT (AND THIS IS THE MOST HARD CHALLENGE FOR ME) TO BUILD A LESSON PLAN WHIT NO STEREOTYPES (FOR EG. PHOTOS,NAMES, CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS TYPICAL REFERENCES). BUT NOW I'LL TRY TOBE BETTER!

Cristina Antal - Romania

2017-02-24 18:17:11 UTC

I learned and I speak the language to communicate with some of my children. I think the most difficult is the parental involvement. The children cooperate but sometimes the parents are the one that want only rights but they don't think about their responsabilities. It is difficult to cope with this

Stefania, Italy

ste_lenzi_75 — 2017-02-24 18:38:51 UTC

Alicia, Erika and Tomislav gave us food for thought.
For exemple, I've never specifically reflected on my own cultural values, even if, obviously, for me it's important to live and work in a multicultural environment. I'm proud to be Italian but I'm not afraid to share my knoledge and my cultural background with my students. I'm a teacher, but I'm always a learner: this awareness should be essential for each teacher. Anyway, I think I need to work the most on language and pedagogy because these areas have to be considered very carefully. On the other hand, the biggest challenge for me is increasing community relationships, but at the moment I could't say how to obtain it.

Marco Schoeber, Germany

2017-02-24 19:14:34 UTC

Most important area(s):

I consider being open to others as well as being willing to try new things to be of key value when it comes to embracing diversity in our classrooms. Much too often we seem to resort to routines/procedures that we already know and feel comfortable with since we don’t want to leave our comfort zone.

The aspect I have to work on the most:

I think moving out of my comfort zone is probably my biggest goal when it comes to dealing with heterogeneous classes. As I said before the trodden path seems to be the easiest way to follow when you encounter busy weeks at school.

My biggest challenge:

Giving people from other cultural backgrounds space to be who they are is not easy at times. I’m afraid I’m not the only teacher who normally sees the ideal class in front of him when picturing the next lesson: a homogenous group of willing, easy-to-handle students. However, I liked the idea of having international days such as a Tunisia Day. Moreover, it appeals to me to use different (international) names in tasks (which I’m already trying).

Piera, Italy

2017-02-24 19:35:19 UTC

The challenge of the future is "intercultural society"...that's why I think that also teachers' competences should be the same : open-minded and re-set again his/her own methodologies

Silvana, Italy

2017-02-24 20:14:00 UTC

Be open to try new things is a very important competence for teachers. The biggest challenge in becoming an interculturally competent teacher is to provide students with ample evidence that people that don’t look like them are, at the core, people just like them.

Sara

2017-02-24 23:30:34 UTC

Sara, Italy

2017-02-24 23:30:35 UTC

I agree expecially with Tomislav Tudjman. I think that social identity and parentale involvement are very important. Teacher must have open mind and he Can contribute to create good relationship in the classroom, but sometimes parents influenced their childrend, for exemple they can't do activities as play music or sports. This situation penalize expecially women

Wanda - Italy. Be open to try new things is a very important competence for teachers. I Think the biggest challenge for me is increasing community relationships and find new resources to communicate with multicultural students.

w_pennelli — 2017-02-25 06:03:34 UTC

Monica Boccoli

mobocco — 2017-02-25 07:57:26 UTC

where two or more culture are present, we need:
- to use a single common language
- to know the extralinguistic codes
- to know cultural value

lara76fontana — 2017-02-25 08:09:04 UTC

Lara Fontana
It is surely important to have an open mind when we have to manage multicultural situations or problems: we need to be quite sensitive not to hurt foreign students feelings, besides we have to guarantee justice and equity among all the students, not to privilege anyone. Foreigners brings a cultural luggage that can get richer our ones: uses, traditions, habits, ways of life, wearing, even making up may represent an important moment to confront with each other, exchanging experiences and sharing feelings, memories and so on. Families are an enourmous resource for our success: when they cooperate actively and frequently with teachers, students feel more controlled and generally tend to work more and better and to adopt a kinder behaviour at school. The more armonious is the climate in the classroom, the more productive will be the activities by the students. Besides, to know the social contest of a boy/girl, can make the teacher better understanding his/her everyday bad or good behaviours, helping us to correct it or giving it a right and more precise value. In many years of experience in multicultural classrooms i learned a lot about foreign students and i never had problems with them. I feel my methods about it are quite good, but maybe having more time to talk with students may implement my competences in this field.

Moschoula, Hellas. Teaching in a multicultural class can be very tricky if first we do not discover and acknowledge our own background and values. We have to know who we are in order to be open to others.

mcdouris — 2017-02-25 08:33:58 UTC

Very important is to iclude in our lessons examples that are not stereotyped (ie names, photos). The hardest of all is to balance the local culture everybody has to understand in order to get by in everyday life, without outcasting or underrating their own background which is essential to their personality and individuality.

Emanuela,Italy

2017-02-25 10:21:34 UTC

I agree the teacher has to balance the local culture with the others cultures ,manage any multicultural problems can occur , understand different habits , respect all religions, make sure to create a space for exchanging experience between students, involve the families of all students.

Astrid, Italy

astriddandrea — 2017-02-25 14:47:24 UTC

In my opinion, all the outlines stated till now can be intertwined while dealing with daily teaching. However, I think that a teacher's activity should definitely be based on acceptance, willingness to experiment und understand and social identity. In this way the national culture can be maintained and taught but within a globalised framework.

María, Spain

isasama10 — 2017-02-25 16:37:53 UTC

I think that attitude is the most important aspect. In that sense, Alicia outlines the "Why not?" attitude. That means that different language, habits and opinions must be tolerated and accepted as part of the normal development of our society. Once we have adopted this open mindedness as our principle, everything is possible in our classroom.

Stefania, Italy

stefaniaferrari — 2017-02-25 18:23:16 UTC

I think that all the areas are important, but relationship among mates and teachers is the most one. Very simple strategies, as use of nicknames, teamwork challenges,...., can improve classroom activities and social skills.
The biggest challenge for teachers is to maintain cultural diversity in an inclusive education.

Antonella, Italy

2017-02-25 18:41:21 UTC

I think a teacher should underline cultural differences in a positive way, making students understand that diversity is richness.

Helga, Croatia

hkraljik — 2017-02-25 18:55:21 UTC

Apart from teaching the importance of accepting the diversity, I believe it is very important to create connections with the students' families as well.

Carolina D'Angelo, Italy

2017-02-25 19:03:52 UTC

In my opinion all the area that Alicia, Erika and Tomislav have outlined, could be considered useful and important to develop in a classroom in order to make it intercultural. Maybe the first area that I think I need to work the most on is the social identity related to the community relationship becuase if it does not develop properly, it could represent a serious danger in the future. Only in this way students could learn to respect the opinions of others, are open to multiple perspectives on any issue and consequently they have mutual respect

Marina,Italy

marinademma — 2017-02-25 19:18:36 UTC

I agree both opinions. I think that us teacher should live and make lived these culture in the most simple way and teach them how nice is known more about each one making us feel a little special for what we are and for our origin. The right instrument to use in class can always be suggested by the students with an aut

Dubravka Crnic, Croatia

dubravka_crnic — 2017-02-25 19:21:55 UTC

I agree with everything Alicia, Erika and Tomislav said. Teachers are role models to students and we should be aware of diversity and make everyone feel well and accepted. It's good to learn about different cultures and enrich our lives

Giuseppina Romeo, Italy

2017-02-25 20:06:46 UTC

I think that all the areas are important, butthe first area that I think I need to work the most on is the social identity related to the community relationship, so the guiding principles will be multilingualism, integration and social inclusion, intercultural understanding, technological innovation, adaptability to ensure that these values can become the values of the younger generation, who in a few years will be active citizens of Europe. It is also important to pursue the objective to develop the sense of belonging to the European Community for a future exercise conscious of an active democracy.

Angeliki, Thessaloniki-Greece

2017-02-25 20:20:49 UTC

I believe all those areas are equally important. However I feel that the most significant is our self-knowledge. First and foremost we should take into account our cultural values and our family background. Only if we define our personality and realise who we really are and what we really believe we can accept others. If we manage that introspection leaving behind our prejudices and stereotypes, then it will be easy to allow space to others to express themselves in their familiar environment. Furthemore we will be willing to leave our comfort zone and discuss about things we don't know. Besides learning is not an one-way process but a bidirectional exchange of views. On the other hand due to our limited time in the classroom, it is rarely feasible to create resources and materials which specifically reflect the diversity. Unfortunately lessons here in Greece are more examination oriented. As a result we almost always study special and technical things. However as Alicia said, we can find ways to integrate cultural diversity in the specific topis we discuss. Additionally it is essential need for me to discover more things about their language, their social identity and the parental involvement skills necessary for an interculturally competent teacher as Tomislav indicated. As for the biggest challenge for me I think that the combination of all those above is the most difficult. However if there is strong will and love for what you are doing then everything is easy.

Elvira Esposito, Italy

2017-02-25 21:59:14 UTC

I think they are all important aspects highlighted in the two videos. The teacher should facilitate inclusion, respecting the diversity culurale. It 'also important to contact with the family.

Irene, Milo (CT) Italy

ireneprastani — 2017-02-25 22:54:01 UTC

Learn about ourselves and our traditions, appreciate our origins, identify the values of the society in which we live and then discover that the other has the same our baggage, equally rich, equally experienced, and only different from ours and maybe not so much... The teacher needs to do this first with himself and then transfer it to students, in a path of acceptance, respect and appreciation of diversity. Teaching in a multicultural class means creating an environment conducive to the constructive comparison, guide pupils to open their minds to the discovery of new and different. I fully agree with what outlined by Erika and Alicia and I consider fundamental the five areas of expertise that a teacher must learn to be a competent intercultural teacher.

VAIA EVANGELOUDI-GREECE

vami800 — 2017-02-26 02:55:18 UTC

I AGREE WITH BOTH SPEAKERS. HOWEVER IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING AS TEACHERS IS TO FACE OUR STUDENTS WITHOUT ANY PREJUDICE. TO LOOK AT OUR STUDENTS AND NOT THINK ABOUT THEIR BACKGROUND CULTURAL OR FAMILY BUT AS CHILDREN WHO HAVE THE SAME INTERESTS AND HOW WE CAN RELAY VALUES AND PRINCIPLES TO THEM. OF COURSE AS TEACHERS WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF FACTS THAT ARE CONSIDERED TO BE OFFENSIVE BY OTHER CULTURES IN ORDER TO AVOID AWKWARD SITUATIONS BOTH WITH THE STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS.FOR EXAMPLE GESTURES THAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED OFFENSIVE OR LANGUAGE THAT MAY INSULT THEM.

Sevasti Milona, Greece

sev_asti — 2017-02-26 08:56:31 UTC

Ι agree with all three speakers. We must first know our own culture, then be an example of acceptance of diversity and we take into consideration all factors. Our students are very clever and it is difficult to present them something that you dont believe it yourself. Through the daily routine as said Alicia you have to pass to childrens accepting messages

Francesca, Italy

2017-02-26 10:31:32 UTC

I agree with all the three speakers especially with Alicia. I strongly believe it is important for teachers to be open to learn from cultural diversity.

EMANUELA B. ITALY

manubar2016 — 2017-02-26 11:13:46 UTC

I agre with the speakers. I think it's important also the parental involvement and to create a community relationship for a better integration

Eleni, Greece

kyriotieleni — 2017-02-26 11:42:06 UTC

I agree with what the three speakers said. I think that the most imortant step is to reflect on our personal beliefs and atitudes.

Salva, Spain

salprosm1 — 2017-02-26 12:04:14 UTC

I totally agre with the speakers. I like the idea to involve parents in the school in order to facilite the integration. I am totally convinced that creating an environment of collaboration and particitation in which everyone is involved (parents, teachers, pu`pils and associations) is the best way to work the cultural diversity and to improve the relationship

Victoria, Brussels, Belgium

2017-02-26 14:20:06 UTC

To be open to others as a teacher is a conditio sine qua non. You need to be open and listen to your students, that’s the best way to create the right atmosphere where your students also can be open. The speaker calls it : allow space to who they are. It will facilitate the learning process and raise learning outcomes.

I also like the practical tips: integration of different resources and cultural diversity as a cross-curricular theme.

As my students are adults, we often do integrated exercises to practice conversations with school teachers, directors. We often discuss the importance of parental involvement in their children’s education.

Nina E., Finland

nina_enkkela — 2017-02-26 15:24:51 UTC

In my opinion, openess towards other people is one of the most important things. Alicia says it´s ok to be different. I would emphasize the similarities between people rather than differencies. I found very interesting the idea about using international names and pictures in classroom. This way you can review ideas and make intercultural things visible into every day life. I think here I have the biggest challenge in order to become
an interculturally competent teacher/counsellor.

Yakup, turkey

2017-02-26 15:25:59 UTC

In my opinion first step is respect all people. And acceptance. Then be aware of they are migrants. We have to be respectful and merciful. We must try to emphaty to others. We have to break all prejudices.

VITTORIA-NAPLES-ITALY

vdaquila63 — 2017-02-26 16:11:00 UTC

I agree with all the three speakers especially with Alicia. I strongly believe it is important for teachers to be open to learn from cultural diversity.As i am teaching now in adult courses i have many contacts with students coming from different part of the world..and what i think could be done is also let them non forget their origin

Ida, Italy.

2017-02-26 16:38:48 UTC

Avere delle competenze interculturali come insegnante è fondamentale perché ti aiuta ad aprirti agli altri. Come insegnante essere a contatto con culture diverse è una crescita personale. Lavorare in un ambiente sereno, aperto, collaborativo.

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gloria_mandala — 2017-02-26 16:53:44 UTC

Gloria , Sicily The most importants areas I think are importants to develop intercultural competences as a teacher are languages social dentity and community realshinpships. I think theses should be a real good way sand tools for me to become a good intercultural teacher Actually I have not experience in it as I haven't got foreign students in my class but in order to the immigrants' arrivals I have to think about my best way to teach them as wessl as to integrate them It will be a good challenge according my past experience as foreign Language teacher.

gloria_mandala — 2017-02-26 16:53:50 UTC

Željka, Croatia

2017-02-26 17:22:02 UTC

Communication is the key to success. Followed by tolerance and acceptance.

miriam scafati, Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2017-02-26 17:35:07 UTC

We must first know our own culture, then be an example of acceptance of diversity .

Giuliana ItalyAs for me, all the areas outlined have the same level of importance. They are so intermingled that none of them can be left out. First of all, I find it important to be open to others and accept other ways of thinking. Developing the ability to understand diverse perspectives make easier to communicate effectively across cultures. Consequently, if we base our school activities on the acceptance of other cultures, if we are willing to experiment and integrate diverse resources il will be easier to develop our students’ intercultural competence. However, I must make the point that some colleagues in our schools are sometimes more worried about teaching contents and trasmitting knowledge than to open their mind to other cultures and integrate diversity as a cross- curricular theme.

2017-02-26 18:01:31 UTC

Daniela Scalia, Sicily

2017-02-26 18:33:35 UTC

I've found all the three ideas, but I agree with Erika and Tomislav for their interesting in the diversity of the cultures

EVGENIA The areas we need to work the most on

nipio1_malia — 2017-02-26 19:00:04 UTC

is language, pedagogy and parentalinvolvement

Tania, Trofarello (TO), Italy

tanjarull — 2017-02-26 20:14:05 UTC

I agree with Alicia, when she says the most important goal for teachers is to learn what he doesn't know and not to stay in the "comfort zone". I think the modeling is one of the most efficient way to teach. I try doing it in my lessons, showing openmindness and curiosity for all topics and cultures, even asking suggestions from my pupils, in order to answer their needs.

Rita (Italy)

2017-02-26 21:49:23 UTC

I think that we (teachers) could do most of the work. As Alicia says ,if we let all the personalities and cultures come out without judging but understanding them ,that's a great thing. All pupils, need to feel undestood and they want to be listened .
All opinions are accepted and they don't have to feel uncomfortale. Worksheets, videos, examples, books that show the real multicultural society and even not underline to much the differences could be a good point. Because , as we said before, in everyday life we have to face people that we like or we don't but we have to respect all o them, and we should be able to teach this through our behavior.

Konstantina, Greece

2017-02-27 09:48:00 UTC

Trying to discover your inner values it is very crucial and important in order to develop values at your students. As Erika said it is very important defining first of all your background as a teacher. This makes it easier to be open at different cultures and other ways of thinking. Moreover Alicia mentioned that it’s important to give others space to realize that it’s ok to have different language or religious. This make them feel accepted from the others and I totally agree! Also, teacher has to be open to learn new things and integrate different sources such as books (not only the typical school books but also books for example about different cultures). If it is necessary teachers can create their own material that is suitable for their students. Cultural diversity can be integrated as a cross-curricular theme. The areas I should work the most on are language, pedagogy, parent involvement, social identity and community relationship, as Tomislav outlined. All of them seem to be big challenges.

VITTORIA-NAPLES-ITALY I agree with all the three speakers especially with Alicia. I strongly believe it is important for teachers to be open to learn from cultural diversity.As i am teaching now in adult courses i have many contacts with students coming from different part of the world..and what i think could be done is also let them non forget their origin

vdaquila63 — 2017-02-27 10:45:38 UTC

Laura Lupo, Italy

2017-02-27 11:04:09 UTC

I agree with all of them, but I want to thank in particular Alicia, because she gave us simple, but, at the same time, important advices, that we should follow, just to be not only a school teacher, but a better citizen of the world.

Luisa, Italy

ossolengoluisa — 2017-02-27 12:33:54 UTC

In my opinion, the most important area is that outlined by Alicia: it's important, like Erika says, to start from the reflection about the relativity and subjectivity of our values and cultural background, but we need to transform this reflections in practise, by re-organizing our educative materials which are thought to be taught to some students, not all. and this is our true challenge.

Paola, Italy

2017-02-27 13:18:44 UTC

I feel that developing intercultural competence as a teacher needs all the aspect that the three speakers talked about.
However, what really strikes me as crucial as a teacher is the idea of including integration as cross-curricolar theme. This idea encompasses both the need for being open to learning something new from the side of the teacher, and feeling at the center of the school experience from the side of the students. On the other hand, Erika insisted on the idea of letting students with diverse background feel "normal", which is something that puzzles me a bit, as the definition of "normal" in itself is a kind of elusive and may risk to cover the idea of "having to conform to fixed standards".

Stavroula - Greece

stavroulakod — 2017-02-27 13:25:27 UTC

I feel that Alicia, Erica and Tomislav have outlined very important areas and I agree with their point of view. I think that all of these areas need to be worked on in order to give us the opportunity to restudy them and discover aspects that we haven't put in mind. The school needs to be open to all and accept all the ways of thinking. But first we have to know who we are, know ourself. This is, in my opinion, the first important step to become an interculturally competent teacher. A step that later could be the base to build an interculturally competant enviroment.

Luciana,Italy

2017-02-27 15:03:54 UTC

I watched the two videos with an increasing interest and I appreciated the starting point 'Reflect on your own cultural values'.
I think that before meeting other cultures we must have the awareness of who we are.I note that there are two ways on approaching foreign cultures:the first one is to denigrate our own culture ,the second approach is to to overvalue it.A teacher needs to find out the right balance between the two positions.He/She must have a strong awareness of his/her background but also put the stress on his/her students' background.I think that ,above all for teachers, the starting point should be to help students "discover what they have in common and then their differences'.
Then I appreciated the suggestion 'to integrate cultural diversity as a cross-curricular theme'.This is what we already do when we teach in a foreign language course, grammar or culture and civilization .We always make comparisons in order to spot similarities and differences.

Vani (Fot. Vass.), Athens, Greece

2017-02-27 16:27:28 UTC

The audiovisual materials rendered ten areas considered vital for developing intercultural competence in teachers. From my viewpoint, these areas can be minimized to five; ie. 1 personality skills (encompassing ability for self-reflection and for encouraging communication within a group), 2 pedagogy-didactics, 3 social psychology, 4 parent involvement and 5 language. Taking for granted that the first two and the two last ones are a must for efficient teachers, we are left with knowledge of social psychology issues, which is what I consider absolutely essential for a teacher who wishes to develop intercultural competence in him/herself and in the learners.

Chiara, Italy

chiara_agnelli1 — 2017-02-27 16:45:05 UTC

In order to create an intercultural environment in our classes, each kid has to feel part of the group. They have to feel proud of their identity and free to share their beliefs with their peers. As Alicia well depicted, diversity should be part of our daily lessons as it is part of our daily life. "Being diverse" is not weird, it is normal because we all are diverse. So we do not have necessarily to plan specific intercultural lessons or modules, but we can simply adapt our daily lessons to be "interculturally-friendly". Choosing a particular topic for our readings or names of people from different countries around the world for our role-plays are simple techniques to involve all the students.
sharing our own beliefs with other and being open to learn from them means being well aware of our culture, customs and traditions, as Erika said.
Finally, being a language teacher, I could not agree more with Tomislav when he highlights the importance of language in the intercultural process. Language and culture are strongly connected and we all should be well aware of the implications of culture in the language learning process and vice versa.

Mirela, Romania

scomi78 — 2017-02-27 17:49:59 UTC

I have no experience in intercultural education. I believe that is important to be open minded, to learn with and from your students, try to understand their personality and their needs.

Gina, Italy

2017-02-27 18:04:42 UTC

I aeree with Alicia. I thitnk that it is better to work in a collaborative class so students can be understood.

Fanny, Italy

fannyamato — 2017-02-27 18:29:17 UTC

In my opinion the biggest challenge is that our own background can influence; since every kind of culture is ok, we can be proud to be Italian, or Chinese, or Indian as well, while being interested in other countries in the meantime. The way we teach depends from the learning group; parental involvement is very important in my personal working experience

Teaching deaf students is different. Firstly, as a teacher, you have to identify and understand their needs, to know their personal and social background, to use special methods and instruments of teaching, and the most important thing, you have to know the sign language. I find all these things similar to the ones about teaching students of other cultures. I agree with Alicia and Erika, but the perspective of Tomislav is more concrete. Personality, pedagogy, didactics, psychology, language and family background, all together, are a real help for the teacher. Having known all these things, a teacher can create different activities.

2017-02-27 18:30:51 UTC

Lucia, Greece

luciadamianidou — 2017-02-27 18:53:27 UTC

Watching Ms. Hummer talking, I could not help but acknowledge the importance of what she says. I have been in german speaking countries as a tourist to live the culture, the mentality and the language and I have never had any discrimination whatsoever. I ‘ve felt equal and well accepted in all classes, in everyday life, eating, shopping, whatever I might have been doing. This is the exact same feeling that I want my students to feel, and this is what I mainly focus on before trying to teach them a language. They are accepted in my classroom, they are welcome both by me and all the students I have in my class. I try to make them all understand from the first lessons that we are a group that works with each other and diversity is fine by all members in this group. Of course sometimes I have to work harder but it is worth the effort. And when the outcome is good (and I try to make sure of it), combined effort success unites my students even more, no matter their previous differences.

Loredana, Italy

2017-02-27 19:01:47 UTC

I agree with all of them.
I think that actions of integrations must be oriented to give hospitality with actions of intercultural dialogue aimed at the creation of a pluralistic climate. All these actions have to valorize diversities with equal dignity.
The pedagogical action of the intercultural teacher must create positive relationships in order to contrast prejudices, racism and discrimination.

Zoi, Greece

zetakoli — 2017-02-27 19:21:43 UTC

1.2 Developing intercultural competence as a teacher.
I think there are many areas that interweave and through their interaction emerge the necessity of the approval of the diversity as a human wealth. After that all my pedagogical acts would support the interaction among children with respect to their educational needs.

claudiarenda — 2017-02-27 19:47:51 UTC

Claudia Renda Italy
I watched the videos

Claudia Renda

claudiarenda — 2017-02-27 19:50:40 UTC

I'm agree with all videos. Competence of Teacher I think start from background, open mind, confirm issue adapt, with pedagogic attention to students. Material, didattic, dialogare, extraschool are basic elements to bring new rich into the classroom.

Annamaria, Italy

2017-02-27 20:05:22 UTC

It's very important to keep our soul, heart and mind open to the other, beeing empatic. All the knowledge we can achieve in languages, pedagogy, methods, etc. would be not effective.

Maria Mantuano, Italy

2017-02-27 20:38:11 UTC

I completely agree with the affirmation in the video. Integration has to start inside the classes and students have to be put in condition to learn in tranquillity

Chiara, Italy

2017-02-27 20:50:30 UTC

I agree with the views presented in the videos. All areas are important. I think that I need to work the most on my cultural background: this consciousness is the key to become an interculturally competent teacher.

Giorgio Figura, Italy

2017-02-27 20:55:21 UTC

I fully agree with what is said in the two videos, certainly true that in order to achieve acceptance of different cultures in our classrooms, we must be the first teachers to have attitudes of welcome, just so we can be credible witnesses for our students.

Giovanna Dotato - Italy

2017-02-27 21:58:01 UTC

I agree with what is said video, is it true that in order to achieve acceptance of different cultures among the students in our classrooms, we must be the first teachers to have attitudes of welcome, only in this way can we be credible witnesses for our students.

Muriel, Belgium

murielgoffin — 2017-02-27 22:36:56 UTC

Alicia highlights the importance of teaching by example. As teachers, we sometimes forget to include multicultural ressources in our lessons which is really not so difficult to do if we are aware of it. I was thinking about the textbook I'm using and publishers are really trying to focus on multiculturality by using people from different cultural backgrounds, with different accents and names of different origins. This evolution is very noticeable and definitely quite important. The area Alicia also mentions which I really need to work on is to move out of my comfort zone. Below you can see a video I watched on the Internet yesterday which highlights the ability to move out of one's comfort zone in order to reach the learning zone. As teachers, we must remain lifelong learners, including learning about other cultures and we have to accept that we don't know all the cultures our students could share. Trying new things, giving importance to students' cultural background can be out of our comfort zone but an invaluable learning tool for other pupils and for us.

I agree with what is said in the videos. Integration begins inside the class.

annantonacci81 — 2017-02-28 07:35:41 UTC

Anna, Italy

Monica B. Italy

chitarramarconi — 2017-02-28 10:08:14 UTC

I agree with what was said in the videos.
When you want to teach an attitude, the main factor is the example. So if we want our students to be openmind, curious, open, eager to learn, we have to be ourselves. If we value the culture and the countries of our foreign students in school activities, the students will be taken to respect them.

Michela, Italy

2017-02-28 12:03:27 UTC

I really appreciated Alicia's speech, especially when she says that teachers have to be curious and eager to learn instead of thinking that their only duty is to transmit what they know

Tiziana - Italy

ioptiziana — 2017-02-28 14:43:40 UTC

In my opinion, Alicia was the one who gave us the most important suggestions. In particular, I appreciated the concept of the teacher as the one who does not have all the answers, who has to be curious and to constantly move outside his/her comfort zone (btw, I really liked the video Muriel from Belgium posted).
At the same time, I feel that I really need to work on these areas, since sometimes our job's constraints and uncertainties really make it difficult not to look for something "certain" to stick to.
Another challenge may be represented by the role of parents as highlighted by Tomislav, since many foreign students' parents are not that willing to cooperate with schools or even to recognize their role in helping raise their children.

Angela - Rome, Italy

2017-02-28 15:44:05 UTC

I think that what Alicia said is very interesting: we have to keep in mind who we are and from where we come before trying to understand other people. In particular, as teachers, we should reflect on our background and on our values.
I agree with Erika when she says that an intercultural teacher should be open-minded and curious even and first of all in his/her attitude.
The biggest challenge for me in becoming an intercultural teacher would be to avoid to take something for granted in culturally different attitude and to have a positive interest towards differences.
To do this I think that I would need to work the most on the awareness of what I am and where I want to arrive

zuhal ozbay/ Turkey

2017-02-28 18:25:40 UTC

Equality and respect for each other's differences is the most important values. Positive attitude of the teacher, Who talks with His students, about cultural diversity, is very important.

Ilaria, Italy

2017-02-28 18:50:01 UTC

I agree with Alicia. I think that we could learn from each other,so social identity and parental involvement are important. We can try new things, we can do new experiences. Divercities are important. We have to move out from our "confort-zone" and have open-mind to create good relation and a good society

Roberta,Italy

rlrc — 2017-02-28 19:40:23 UTC

I agree with Alicia what is said in the videos. Integration begins inside the class. I agree with Erika when she says that an intercultural teacher should be open-minded and curious.

Silvia, Rome

silvietta_68 — 2017-02-28 21:44:57 UTC

The only real way for students to develop significant intercultural competence is for them to meet and interact with people of other cultures. This can be hard for the teacher to arrange, but using Internet, maybe not as hard as it once was.

Ioannis Velonakis, Greece

2017-02-28 22:21:33 UTC

Alicia, Erica and Tomislav address very important aspects of intercultural competences that we should have as teachers. In my opinion, the most important among them is the understanding of ourselves before we try to understand the others. Of course I need to work more on self-understanding, as well as with my students’ families. The biggest challenge for me in becoming a multicultural teacher is overcoming the way we have learnt to live and our concrete belies in order to understand other people and their cultures or way of living.

Rossella, Italy

rossella_esposito — 2017-02-28 22:50:26 UTC

I mean it's important to accept other views of thinking and to be open to try new things. I agree teachers must integrate different resources and materials from different cultures in their lessons. Intercultural diversity must be a cross-curriculur theme.
I find all five areas that Tomislav underlined are important.

Lara Italy

monarca_lara — 2017-02-28 23:59:41 UTC

I agree with all of them.
First of all we as teachers must be openminded and welcoming. Our cultural background, our experiences and personal approach, curiosity to know different cultures is a model for the students.
Knowing and working on ourselves is the first step for a constructive approach to other peole. Another important aspect is a deeper knowledge of our children families, also involving them in some school activities for example.
Of course cultural diversity must become a cross curricular theme. It must give new direction and aims to our planning and teaching strategies.

Silvia, Italy

silvia_baccaro1 — 2017-03-01 00:26:17 UTC

I think that everyone is a single person, everyone is different. A teacher must listen all the students and be open mind. I try to help my students to feel part of a group where everyone feel well and accepted. Collaborative learning is a good way of working to achieve a respectful and welcoming atmosphere.

Daniela, Romania

danielamioarachisalita — 2017-03-01 07:28:20 UTC

Everyone is unique. Accepting each culture is very important. Intercultural skills, knowledge and attitudes in support teacher to help students to integrate into the community as well.

Zvonimira, Croatia

2017-03-01 11:01:32 UTC

I agree with the views of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. I think we need to give everyone a chance to express themselves, demonstrate their skills, present their culture and religion. We need to give everyone a feeling that is accepted in class.

Almudena, Spain

romero_almudena — 2017-03-01 13:45:16 UTC

I think I should work most on social identity and the way in which this is integrated in the class in a normalized way.

Βασιλική Κρικώνη, Greece

2017-03-01 17:14:02 UTC

All of the areas that Alicia, Erika and Tomislav outline are equally important. Each of them has its own importance. Considering all of them, can help us improve the way we handle diversity.
I believe that it is important to know who we are. Thats the first step. We should be opened, in any way, towards other people. When we respect and accept anyone who is different, when we are curious about learning new things, when we believe that though we are all different we are all equall, then we are an example to emulate for our students.

Rosa, Italy

2017-03-01 17:39:56 UTC

All the areas outlined by relators are important. I found interesting especially Alicia’s intervention: teachers should be open to experiment, to try new things; teachers have to be an example of open-mindedness and curiosity towards diversity. I hope to improve this aspects because I think that a teacher can educate especially with his attitude and his behaviour.

Loredana, Italy

loredanamarzocchella — 2017-03-01 18:32:33 UTC

I think that we need to give everyone a chance to express their own culture and their way of thinking. Accepting each culture, and respect them it's very important and only doing it through dialogue and hospitality can be valorized diversity and reduced any kind of discrimination.

I agre with their speeches. Integration begins in classroom. Teachers and later (thanks to them) students should be open minded and curios to know, to learn from other ways of acting, of living of thinking. Teachers should use,integrate, work on different materials, different resources from different cultures.Teacher should be The first witness of The welcome,of The integration. The biggest challenge is this one.

2017-03-01 20:07:15 UTC

Deppie, Greece

2017-03-01 23:39:07 UTC

Each speech of the instructors has a piece of truth inside. First of all, as Ms Erica mentioned is to identify ourselves and who we are. What are our values and our backgrounds and accept ourselves. If we succeed in this first step, it will be easier after to accept others and other ways of thinking. Second step as Ms Alicia mentioned, is to show the students who they really are and to help them to accept themselves and show them that nothing on this Earth is a copy of something else. For example if you observe a tree you will soon realise that non of its leaves is the same. And this is the beauty of the tree. Thirdly, teachers need to be openminded and supporting the acceptance in the class, so after the students will be free to reveal themselves and finally they will not be afraid to show who they are. In contrary, they will be proud of who they are. In conclusion, as Mr Tomislav said, teachers should have some needed skills to accomplish cultural diversity in the class. One of them is not to be xenophobic and to apply a pedagogical way of approaching and communicating with the children. Last but not least, parents are playing a significant role in their children school life and they need to be definitely involved.

Ivana, Italy

ivana_fratter — 2017-03-02 08:13:40 UTC

I believe that reflections and ideas of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav are extremely important, but if I have to place them in a scale of priorities, I believe that the first objective for the development of intercultural competence is a reflection on our cultural awareness.

First, we must know who we are and how we perceive other people different from us

Sorry for my English!

Luigina Astorino Italy

20febraio — 2017-03-02 09:51:08 UTC

loredana_mangano — 2017-03-02 09:53:39 UTC

Loredana, Italy

loredana_mangano — 2017-03-02 10:01:46 UTC

My opinion is that three opinion are important and they are completed one each other.
Teacher in his work needs to know their background: cultural, family or religious.
Like is very important teaching mode, it should not only to transmit knowledge, but teacher should to help his pupils to see cultural diversity like a richness and to be proud of its cultural identity.
It's also important, when we teach, using didactic material that corresponding to cultural differences and teacher should to know their background.
All is important: language, pedagogy, social identity, parents involvement, psychology, but the most important, for me, is teacher to be opened to know true pupils reality, to be welcoming, to be curious. If he's having those behaviors and professional knowledge, he can develop intercultural competences.

Ago, Italy

falco_gabu — 2017-03-02 15:54:49 UTC

The problem is very serious. It must be ever more prepared.
Background at the base. But remember that integration begins in classroom.

Rafaela

tziouvar — 2017-03-02 18:36:15 UTC

I find the parameters outlined by Tomislav, to the point and very realistic. I share Erika's point of view and I totally agree that addresing diversity shouldnt just be in the form of a project or just deal with it for two hours, talk about it and then forget it. It should go through the whole schoollife and continuously throughout the whole year through adjustment of materials and cultural fairs and food sharing etc.

Eirini

2017-03-02 18:48:31 UTC

I think reflecting my own cultural values and parental involvement are the most important areas, which I also think I need to work the most on. Racism is a very difficult thing to deal with, especially when it is based on family opinions, thus it's a real challenge to try and change a child's point of view in a multicultural classroom.

Cinzia Marrone Italy

2017-03-02 20:29:23 UTC

I'm agree with the importance of start integration inside the class and much more in family.

Niki, Greece

nikialexakou — 2017-03-02 23:06:41 UTC

The most important area for me of those heard on the videos are that teachers should lead by example, the parental involvement and the knowledge of social identity. I find really challenging the fight against racism and xenophobia which sometimes is really well-hidden and comes from the family background, so it could be a dangerous zone to step in. It needs to be dealt with carefully. I feel I need to work more on this exact area, that is of finding a way to fight it patiently. Also, a big challenge for me is to be able to integrate topics of migration and of different cultures in my classes of maths.

Giusi; Rome

2017-03-03 12:52:56 UTC

Consistent exposure to positive role models is the best way to "learn" respect naturally and build common values while respecting the diversity of cultures and traditions in the classroom.

Maria Pina from Dicomano (Florence)

2017-03-03 12:53:31 UTC

I' ve just given a look around the padlet and it's important to notice that a high number of participants are from Italy, and that is because Italy is the first country migrants can reach to enter in Europe. I agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav, but much more with Tomislav because parental involvement and social relationship help the process of "welcoming". I don't agree the word "Integration" because it sounds like losing or abandoning some aspect of my origins. Teachers must promote the exchange of informations and meeting time.

Cristina, Romania

cristinahelena2108 — 2017-03-03 14:24:11 UTC

I agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav ‘s opinion. In my oppinion, I think we need to work the most on parent's involvement, colaboration.

Francesca; Messina

f_pasquanucci — 2017-03-03 15:53:00 UTC

I agree with the statements in the videos.
True integration starts in the classrooms.
I have experimented intercultural education.
In my school, there are 20% of students with different cultural background.
It's important to create suitable paths, where each kid feels a part of the group. I think that teachers have to be open minded and respect all differences. They have to understand their personality, their culture and their needs.

Marina Gurina (Ukraine)

mariam_72 — 2017-03-03 18:53:17 UTC

I completely agree with Tomislav. As a teacher I must developo al 5 acpects.

Valentina, Italy

flyvale — 2017-03-03 21:29:34 UTC

Italy is the first country that recive a lot migrants. I agree with Tomislav, I think the relationships are the most important steps to recive immigrats. I talk with my foreign students about their origin countries, their traditions, their food or drink.. I think this is important for theirs and for their italian friends know about their world, because it help emphathy.

Sofia, Greece

sofiakolosidou — 2017-03-04 09:52:59 UTC

I agree with Alicia and Erika. It is important to reflect on our cultural values. And this can be related to what Ivana (Italy) says below: “First, we must know who we are and how we perceive other people different from us”. I would like to add that both teachers and students must know their cultural background. It is essential because it helps them build their cultural identity. It is the first step. And then they can learn how to accept other point of views and embrace diversity. It is ok to be different! Teachers can use new and flexible ways to teach and they can learn with students how different worlds can coexist.

Kleri, Siakagianni

evriklia19 — 2017-03-04 11:42:34 UTC

- define your background (religion, family, education)
- allow the students to be different, to speak their language
- to be open and to experiment
- all cultures are equally important
- to show curiosity about different countries
- living by example
- use many resources
- different languages, pedagogy, social identity, parental involvment, community relationships

The most important area to work on at least at the beginning is to have a social identity that doesnt get easily influenced when the work conditions are difficult.

Valentina, Rome, Italy

2017-03-04 12:12:33 UTC

i really appreciate the contributions, specially the one that speaks about "to be conscious about ourself and our truth really point of view" i think this is a
very important step to discover really who we are, because in many cases racism and xenophobia are very well hidden! then i really like the idea to be openminded, with a lot of questions and not only answers, to speak about migration in the classroom and to use many examples in our lessons where we represent the entire world, not only a culture, because the world is really full of different way to live and think so the modern classroom is a good mirror about this, and we have to be good director of this various world. Maybe also the schools programs have to be changed i think, a good first institutional step to do! i hope to improve all these things i mean.

Livia, Italy

liv_ann — 2017-03-04 14:32:07 UTC

It's clear that a teacher should be open-minded and be aware that different culture could have different values, witness. The first step is to be aware and to be ready to live the difference. To give a right place to different culturees is a prerequisite, I agree with the idea that the teacher should be ready to learn from different cultures so they can integrate diverse resources .

Graziella, Italy

2017-03-04 17:24:29 UTC

I found videos of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav very interesting. I think it's important to find out what are the backgrounds (family, cultural, religios...). The teachers have to be open minded, respect all differences and build common values. I agree with Tomislav on parental involvement because they essential for students.

Heidi, Germany

profgiese — 2017-03-04 19:13:27 UTC

The most important things to think of are to create activities in class with intercultural topics. As Alicia mentionned "to make them feel normal". Adapting material , creating intercultural lessons, not be afraid of new situations, accepting not to know everything but being a longlife learning teacher

Cettina, Italy

2017-03-04 22:58:57 UTC

I absolutely agree whith which was said in the videos.
As teachers, we must known that integration begins in class and do our best to create positive relationships, in order to contrast racism and discrimination.

Paola, Italy

2017-03-05 11:30:13 UTC

I agree with all that has been said in the video. I believe that developing the different languages, the pedagogical idetità of the various disciplines, social identity and especially the involvement of parents even in the projects organized by students and teachers is fundamental to developing inclusive learning environments for all students. In Italy we work a lot for interdisciplinary projects and often seek to take into account the different cultures in the classroom. This is a first step, but there is still some way to go to make the most of the multicultural school.

Angelo, Italy

2017-03-05 13:25:04 UTC

I'm focusing especially on the teachers' questions suggested by Erika: "what are my values?". Regarding Tomislav, I found interesting the emphasize on the parental involvement.

Victoria, Greece

victvoud — 2017-03-05 15:53:24 UTC

It is necessary that our students recognise their position in the cultural chart of their country, eventually in the world. First, as the video demonstrates, students need to realize who they are in order to appreciate different cultural values and foster difference as something positive! Of course, the teacher leads the way to such a mentality, in order to bring his/her class to the highest levels of tolerance and peaceful co-existence.

Anisoara, Romania

2017-03-05 17:21:02 UTC

Maria Grazia G., (Italy)

mariagrazia_caltanissetta — 2017-03-05 20:32:55 UTC

The task of the school is to help the class EVERY student to feel part of a group.The teacher MUST foster a climate of acceptance and promote communication between school and family and Territory.

Brunella from Italy. Every teacher must know the culture of his/her students because it's most important know habits, ideologies... for to teach in the best way. The first thing is to apply an educational inclusion where the pupils can feel part of group. It's important the respect for every culture. Than the teacher must have the patience to wait for the pupils learn the L2 language, for communicate with the other students, their needs. At first the teacher can use the pictures with the corresponding written for help the student to learn the new language.

brunella_pedretti80 — 2017-03-05 21:45:53 UTC

Laura, Italy

2017-03-05 23:30:23 UTC

I agree with Alicia when she says to be open. Also Tomislav thinks the language and the pedagogy may be important. I think need to know people. I love my country, its culture and literature. I respect the culture of the others, but I am curious to learn something and I'd like to

Ourania, Greece

2017-03-06 01:09:46 UTC

I find the videos meaningful and interesting. Personally believe skills of an interculturally competent teacher include the ability to: be flexible, to have a positive attitude towards the target culture and an open mind towards other cultures, to facilitate discussion among students with a variety of communication styles, finally to model and encourage non-judgemental approaches to discussing cultural, social, or other types of difference.

Izaskun, Spain

2017-03-06 08:38:14 UTC

What I find most interesting from these videos are:
-Our personal attitude as teachers. How we face on our sitution in the classroon. If we are prepared or not. What are our pesonal values....Really, really important beacause we are going to work from this point (and we are going to transmit it).
-Pedagogy: "in different situations, different ways". We should adapt our way of working to every enviroment.
-Language, people who come to our school have to learn our lenguage, but...why not to bring closer to theirs?
-Parent involvement: I actually believe in the effectiveness o a net formed by familly and school.

Rossana, Italy

rossaco — 2017-03-06 12:47:42 UTC

I've always been a little bit intercultural. When teaching 'where are you from?' to my students I've always added to the flags all those from their native countries. When preparing a Christmas poster I asked the parents to write a Christmas wish in their own language. I need to improve introducing festivals from their countries and maybe speaking about food we could add a special dish from other countries or talking about clothes I could add flash cards with chador... and so on

Rossana, Italy

rossaco — 2017-03-06 12:47:42 UTC

Clara, Spain

2017-03-06 17:46:25 UTC

I agree with everthing had been said since as a teachers we must encourage integration in class. Integration starts in class indeed. Teachers are the key to create positive relationships between their students.

Rita, Sicily

2017-03-06 18:21:38 UTC

I am absolutely convinced that to develop real intercultural competence it is necessary to reflect on the values in general, on the “value difference” in particular. My thought is this sythesized from these words that represent for me a kind of “manifesto"
 "When you come back to school looks good all yourclassmates and you will notice that they are all differentthem, and this difference is a good thing.It is a good opportunity for humanity.Those children come from different horizons,They are able to give you things you have not,as you can give them something that they do not know.The mixture is a mutual enrichment.Know that each face is a miracle. It's only.You will never find two completely identical faces.Each face is the symbol of life and every life deserves respect."From T. B. Jelloun, Racism Explained to My Daughter.
However, one aspect is particularly close to my heart and that is the parental involvement.Today the daily lives of many children, teens and adults is characterized by the encounter with the “other”.The differences are not only evoked, sought after, feared as possible events located elsewhere, but I'm here, living spaces and common areas.The inclusion of children who came from afar, with different histories and cultural affiliations, and the relationship with foreign parent fee for educators and teachers a confrontation with different views, with other modes of communication with other beliefs and valuesThe questions are many. How to communicate emotions, rules, daily indications in children and adults who speak a different language? How to propose a comparison with the differences - somatic, religious, cultural, linguistic? How to welcome in places of all, without denying and devalue the history, references and memberships of each? How to handle the differences in school and avoid trivializing or emphasize them.Foreign parents of the children are in school the first area of everyday communication with the host society. In many cases they access them with feelings of fear and distrust, as well as with high expectations, since they are to entrust their children to an institution "other" language, values, religion, practices. But the erosion of fear of the culture of origin, can result in premature acculturation, it is set aside and passed in the name of the project success of their children.

Annamaria, Italy

2017-03-06 18:55:49 UTC

I agree with Erika about the importance of knowing our own cultural background. A teacher must know the costumes and mentality of his/her own country, but at the same time he/she must respect and accept new traditions and habits. It is really important, as Alicia said, to make students understand all cultures are equal, not only the culture of the country where they live. I believe this is the most important task of multicultural teaching: to teach the students to know their cultural identity and at the same time to respect other students' cultures.

Melania, Italy

2017-03-06 20:42:22 UTC

Teachers must encourage integration in the classrom. They are the key to create positive relationships between their students.

Jenny, Greece

2017-03-06 21:37:08 UTC

I believe that it is important to show students that belonging to a cultural diverse classroom is something that will benefit them in the long run. They will be able to learn more about their ever-changing world and be grateful for having such an experience.

Sabrina, Italy

2017-03-06 23:03:00 UTC

I think that the most important area outlined by Alicia, Erika and Tomislav is the affective one, because a teacher has to get in touch with a migrant student first of all on an emotional level, above all when he is newly arrived and he doesn't know the language at all. A teacher should put him at ease and introduce him to the rest of the class as an important and completely equal peer to the rest of the class. Than, little by little, thanks to a lot of different "social" activities he has to create a climate of positive relationships first and friendship later, in order to let a worthwhile exchange of culture, religion, traditions, language and so on. Only if we "know" what is different from us we aren't afraid of it and we learn to appreciate and consider it as richness for ourselves.

manuela, Italy

manuelabasu — 2017-03-07 06:34:18 UTC

according to me the most important point underlined is that a teacher should transfer to students the idea od seeing diversity not as a menace but as an opportunity of growth that can enrich your life

Annamaria from south Italy(Molise)

2017-03-07 14:32:22 UTC

Alicia Erika say a lot of sharable ideas. first: start from themselves(Socrate teach"Gnose te ipsum")
second: accept others
as well as it is with its lights and its shadows.

third: reflect and make students understand all cultures are equal, not only the culture of the country where they live. I believe this is the most important task of multicultural teaching: to teach the students to know their cultural identity and at the same time to respect other students' cultures.
About Tomislav's speech
LANGUAGE : try to improve foreign and mother tongue language skills of all school actors.

PEDAGOGY
learn about tools, methods, activities to promote dialogue, learning and inclusive education.

SOCIAL IDENTITY
use of theater techniques, philosophy and free conversation

to know: Who am I?
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
COMMUNITY
create convivial situations through a party, informal meetings, cineforum, dancing, tasting of food from the own country to facilitate the meeting of people and try to loose our fears about different people.

RELATIONSHIPS
take care of relations, use the right words to encourage,
without judging and smile.

Antonella Sellia

antonellasellia — 2017-03-07 16:04:15 UTC

I think that we should work above all on pedagogy, in order to develop a deeper respect for what is "different", to avoid the danger of cultural centrality and improve cultural curiosity in students. Different means new to me, and this is the basis of knoledge and growing. The biggest challenge is making students reflect on this, make them understand the social importance of intercultural dialogue.

Anna, Albania

annafed67 — 2017-03-07 18:44:04 UTC

In my opinion, Intercultural Education is a priority of the European Union, as the migration from a country to another is easier and every citizen experiences a lot of kind of diversity: cultural, age, material situation, educational situation, etc.

Cultural diversity provides many opportunities, such as

· Providing opportunities for all students to learn from other students who are different.Cultural diversity gives students a chance to learn about different languages, customs, and worldviews.

· Reducing ignorance that comes from lack of exposure. Oftentimes, when students only interact with persons who share the same background, they become blind to other ways of seeing and doing things. This cultural isolation frequently works to their disadvantage.

· Providing opportunities for all students to develop cross-cultural competence. Through everyday activities in diverse school settings, students are challenged to find ways of interacting effectively with students who are culturally different. In so doing, they develop important skills in cross-cultural competence.

· Preparing students for the real world. Similar to inclusion, giving students opportunities to interact with diverse individuals in their school experiences better prepares them to do so as adults in the workplace.

Caterina, italy

2017-03-07 18:46:32 UTC

Being aware of language acquisition processes is vital. I find offering opportunities for students to communicate with each other about their culture, origins and background as part of the learning programme (presentations, debates, writing and reading) is a very effective method of demonstrating respect for cultural diversity as well as making the most of the richness of what it offers. I also find that asking students and their parents for their advice and input is valuable learning for everyone.

Elena, Greece

l_1_doug32_ed — 2017-03-07 22:08:20 UTC

Unfortunately, most of us have not been prepared for a linguistically and cultural diverse classroom. If we want to develop intercultural competence in our students we need to reflect on our own intercultural competence and that can be achieved not only learn from, but learn about our students.
Learning about each student’s culture and language provides a foundation that facilitate learning. Learning about students involves listening to them, interacting with them, and modeling for them.

And this way you can combine the parental involvement with the language and the social identity and all the above Mr.Tudjman mention to develop intercultural competence.

Maria Donato - Italy

marianna_donato_md — 2017-03-07 22:42:11 UTC

I think it is important to teach respect, friendness, tolerance in order to prevent prejudice and racism. I think we have to reflect on our prejudices an how to eliminate them if we want to be effective intercultural teachers.

Behlül AKYOL,Turkey

2017-03-07 23:03:10 UTC

In order to be a teacher in a class where you have a cultural diversity, we need to know the cultural values that students have. We must identify students' language, religious beliefs, financial situation and social ties.
We need the whole thing to provide intercultural education. We must increase our sufficiency. When communicating with children and their families, we must show respect and tolerance of love.

Chiara Semplicini, Italy

2017-03-08 07:21:46 UTC

To be an interculturally competent teacher is not easy. Indeed, we need to be prepared to deal with diversity from a variety of perspectives. First, we need to know different cultures and values and be open to them, that is, we must like diversity and perceive it as something normal, not exceptional. Second, we need to be learners (and not only teachers). I mean, we must be open to new things and bring them to our class. Third, we must be able to create multicultural resources by integrating a variety of cultures in our lessons. Interculture should become a cross-curricular theme: teachers should cooperate to develop multicultural practices with their students.
Last but not least, teachers should reflect on their own culture: this is definitely the first step to be open to different cultures and to promote effective intercultural communication.

Barbara, Germany

2017-03-08 09:08:27 UTC

I believe it is most important to teach respect for others no matter what their background is. I find there a many prejudices in the student body as well as within the teachers. We are all people. I think it is important to guide the students to act respectful even though the prejudices exist. All of my classes involve cultural diversity . I still need to learn about the different cultures, their values and educational background and how to deal with this myself. My biggest problem is dealing with those who do not see the need for education.

Anastasia, Greece

atopalidou2 — 2017-03-08 10:39:36 UTC

The most important thing from what haw been said is okay to come from a different cultural background. Children need to know that and teachers are responsible to let them know that is okay to speak their own language. As teather,we have also to show them how to respect each other.

Giovanna, Italy

bysuriano — 2017-03-08 14:29:17 UTC

In my opinion it is important to create a positive classroom atmosphere where everyone feels included and respected. Teachers should listen to their students and give them the opportunity to talk and share information. One of the biggest problem is communication because they speak different languages. Then we have to work on their speaking skills.

Bianca, Romania

2017-03-08 17:56:40 UTC

We need to know each other, to understaind our differences so we can all respect each other and treat equally.

Angela, Italy

2017-03-08 22:35:13 UTC

I think it's very important to teach respect for everybody and create a positive classroom atmosphere . To be an interculturally competent teacher is very important for our pupils.

Livio, italy

2017-03-09 06:22:17 UTC

I think it could be a very important hotpoint to create an atmosphere of open mind in all our students. They have to understand that the world is various and systems that seem different, in a mejor view, are very similar in what is very important at end.

As teachers we have a special duty/gift opening our students mind in order to respect what people are and what their tradition is. Interculturality is an outstanding element of the globalized work but it has to be considered as a competence to improve

2017-03-10 10:20:46 UTC

Elena, Italy

2017-03-10 16:26:54 UTC

Hello!
I think is very important to create an atmosphere of open mind in the children about the Interculturality and the rispect for everybod

SONIA,ROMANIA

2017-03-10 19:20:22 UTC

Intercultural education should not be limited exclusively to the transmission of specific content within a particular discipline, strengthening its interdisciplinary approach is fundamental; It can not be conceived only for schools but also about the extracurricular (family, social groups, institutions, communities, media). It also noted a change in the teacher's role, beyond function to communicate models and programs, it must pay more attention to the spirit of initiative and creativity, the whole action being student centered.
The school's mission is to enable every child to grow, to develop mind, body and heart, so intelligence, sensitivity, creativity; allowing children to learn to live together with each other, with different people, to be able to handle progressively place in society, can become active citizens.
Interculturalism is before any respect differences. Teachers are guarantees these rigors of the spirit that watches over differences, to learn, to know and understand what binds us, what makes us similar, which brings us closer. We are different, but does not mean that one is better than the other, we all have a potential value equal. We all have a similar culture but at the same time and cultures. These related to our religion, our ethnic group, political values, social, families noastre.Unica possibility that people become united is to recognize and estimate their differences and similarities.

Anastasia, Italy Ithink it is important to create a positive atmosphere and respect for all

2017-03-12 16:02:41 UTC

Being able to increase knowledge through experience that every member of the community is the bearer is the goal that an entire society should ask yourself. The wealth of other cuture that offers unprecedented horizons otherwise it is mandatory to explore it. Globalization must not be only economic but also cultural.

2017-03-12 18:41:43 UTC

Iuliana, Romania

iulyanaivan — 2017-04-08 15:13:39 UTC

In my opinion, as a teacher I have to have such competent to share them with my students/

Betty-Greece

2017-05-02 20:40:55 UTC

Acceptance is very important for my opinion because this means that we accept the differential. On the other hand i think that we need to involve the parents more in the education as they need to understand and to feel that the " new country" accept and help them to restart their life and to go furthe

2017-08-14 17:57:29 UTC

Isabel Quirino, Portugal

isabelquirino — 2017-11-08 18:33:08 UTC

We must learn to accept those we don't know, which means we must have open mind so we can show interest for those around us.