Intercultural Learning and Cultural Diversity in the classroom (Palermo)
This course allows participants to share and discuss challenges, best practices and strategies to face, acknowledge and celebrate interculturality in the classroom.
Description
- Course category: Inclusion and Diversity
- Locations: Bologna, Palermo, Tenerife, Rimini
- Target Audience: teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff
- Preregistration: Online in the course webpage
- Related courses: Preventing conflicts and tackling Early School Leaving, Diversity in the classroom: teaching tolerance and overcoming prejudices, Special needs and inclusive education
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Modelling empathic, critically-thinking and open minds contributes to shape welcoming school environments, where cultural diversity is promoted and celebrated, and the first step towards bringing social change and inclusive societies. This course aims to help teachers to develop their cultural awareness while giving them the tools and new approaches to cater to a multicultural and ethnically diverse group of students. More...
Learning objectives
- Confront and understand the mechanisms behind head-on stereotypes and personal prejudices;
- Improve their cultural awareness and intercultural competences;
- Explore and value different points of view through simulation exercises and storytelling;
- Learn new approaches to education that can be applied to culturally diverse classrooms;
- Know more about teachers' role in the integration process of immigrant or foreign children;
- Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow colleagues and the course trainers.
Standard Daily Programme
Sunday- Participants arrival
- Networking activities
- Cultural activities in the city
- Introduction to intercultural learning: main principles
- Reflection on current challenges in multicultural classrooms
- Identity and culture: models and individual reflection
- Stereotypes and prejudices: the role in the perception process
- The danger of a single story: a framework for alternative narratives
- Practical activities: confronting personal prejudices
- The stages of intercultural sensitivity: the road to integration
- Intercultural competences: key skills and self-assessment
- Practical activities: improving own intercultural awareness
- Field experience with a local institution active in the field of multiculturalism and migrants' integration
- Building inclusive and intercultural aware classrooms
- Practical activities to foster empathy, inclusion and tolerance
- Intercultural conflict management: practical case studies
- Culturally responsive teaching: individual and group reflection
- Course wrap-up and final evaluation
- Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
- Participants departure
Methodology & assessment
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaborative working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on transferring knowledge and skills which are applicable to real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential learning, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange.
We support our partners in every step of the course: from application, to preparation, to monitoring and evaluation and collection of all final documentation. Morning wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure the learning programme is finely tailored to participants' needs. At the end of each course, we provide participants with supporting material and multiple dissemination evidence.
We commit to make participants feel at home during our courses, catering for their personal, practical and educational needs. Indeed, in addition to delivering the training, we provide board and lodging in the same hotel where the course takes place, thus ensuring the best comfort and coziness as well as effective time management.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know the venue’s culture as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional links. The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Certification details
Pricing, packages and other information
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Package contents:AccommodationCourse
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Additional information:
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements.
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2023 costs EUR 1130 and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, 3 networking meals, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding.
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalHigher education institution staff
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Learning time:25 hours or more