Cultural diversity in your classroom. by Piero Laurora

Hello there,

pierolauro — 2017-02-22 14:20:54 UTC

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

Developing intercultural competences of our students.

pierolauro — 2017-02-22 14:32:23 UTC

First of all a teacher who works on inclusiveness must work on self respect and acceptance of the other, secondarily cooperation and good practices among students coming from different countries is another important step which will lead at the awareness that all students are equal and deserve a bright future.

Adriana Laze Albania

adrianalaze — 2017-02-22 22:06:34 UTC

Hi . I am a Math teacher at a secondary school. I do not have more experience on working with student that belongs to different cultures, but for more than one year I live an work in Tirane the Capital City of Albania . During the last year I had to work with two students a German and a Turkish. So this is

General information about my students. What are their cultural backgrounds? How are they diverse in other ways? My relationship with them? How do they interact with each others.

pierolauro — 2017-02-28 14:22:53 UTC

I teach in a secondary school, namely a Cooking school preparing students to be chefs, receptionists, barmen, sommeliers, maitre de salle, etc. My students' background is so diverse as they come from middle-class families and very few parents own an university degree. Students knowledge in general is quite poor but they have a great energy when it comes to practical skills, when they have to perform something they will do in their future job. Their command of foreign languages is quite mediocre but they strive to learn them because they know it is a must nowadays. Their mutual relationship is based on respect and friendship and so is my relationship with them. We work together to develop self-esteem and to encourage cultural exchanges between different viewpoints, habits and traditions.

Activities to develop students intercultural competences.

pierolauro — 2017-02-28 14:57:34 UTC

I fully agree with Alicia and Erika about the importance of sharing different cultural backgrounds to achieve a mutual understanding of diverse but interesting realities. I find the idea of asking grandparents information about their young days and about their cultural growth absolutely grand. Collecting ideas and memories can help students to feel more confident when facing life itself, the deeds of their ancestors can become a path to be followed in their education, a challenge that will surely make them stronger. The use of multimedia, internet, videos can provide a huge amont of material giving them an unmissable chance to reconnect with the past while creating their next future.

The importance of multilinguality in school

pierolauro — 2017-02-28 15:42:09 UTC

I found the videos about multilinguality very interesting and inspiring for my approach to different students and languages at school. I have some students coming from Morocco who do not speak other languages than Arabic and French. This fact caused problems to other teachers teaching Italian or maths, being myself a teacher of French and English I have so often helped these students to understand the language of instructions enabling them to carry out their assignements and to be successful in their school activities. It is also important to embrace their mother tongue but at the same time as they are attending a school in Italy they have to face the fact that learning the language of the host country is important for their fully growth as individuals. Multilinguality is the key to face the challenges of this century both at a cultural and working level so having staff members in school speaking a variety of languages is now a great opportunity to enhance and encourage students to interact among them in several languages, when different cultures cohesist then different languages must too

Privilege what is this?

pierolauro — 2017-03-01 09:17:30 UTC

I appreciated the video so much, it gave me some hints on how to handle the topic of privilege with my students. As a matter of fact all students, and teachers as well, come from different social backgrounds, their lives have taken on different directions due to their peculiar experiences with family and society in general, it is very important to arise awareness among students and youngsters on the fact that having privileges or not having them is just a way to discover a inner force, those who have no privileges and so must fight to reach the top of the social scale are the same persons who develop a great personality, a sense of brotherhood that makes them inter-cultural individuals, I will work on my students in class using the good paractices seen in the video to encourage inclusiveness and mutual understanding among them, I am sure this will lead to a higher level of cohesion.

Bento, Portugal

2017-03-07 14:40:03 UTC

Eu sou professor do conservatório de Música do Porto.
Ensino Ciências Naturais.
Os problemas da multiculturalidade podem estar presentes na minha escola porque temos alunos e professores provenientes de diversos países europeus, asiáticos e da América do sul, no entanto, através da música todas as diferenças estão esbatidas e o ambiente de trabalho e de aprendizagem é muito bom

Intercultural

2023-12-04 10:21:02 UTC

We have our differences in so many ways. These differences could lead to a lot of misunderstanding or it could lead to understanding everyone and respecting diversity.