Teaching in multicultural classes: tips, challenges, opportunities

Target group

Primary and secondary teachers, adult educators/ trainers dealing with learners from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Course aim

The aim of this 7-day course is to enable participants and participant organizations to deal effectively with classroom challenges linked to migration.

Expected results

At the end of this course, participants will have:

• improved their competences linked to teaching/ training learners from other cultures, and integrating them into their classroom practice;
• increased their capacity to trigger and lead changes in terms of inclusiveness and combating violent radicalization within their organizations;
• improved the quality of their work and activities in favor of both local and non-local learners;
• gained a greater understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity;
• increased their ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged;
• improved their competence in English;
• increased their motivation and satisfaction in their daily work;
• built a network of international contacts;
• developed a sense of European citizenship and identity through participating in a community of European teachers and trainers;
• become familiar with the Europass tool.

Course content:

– Disambiguating and contextualizing key-concepts and approaches;

– Managing culture and race-induced classroom conflict;

– Exploring and adopting effective teaching styles;

– Supporting learners of diverse linguistic backgrounds even you’re not a language teacher;

– Exploiting course content to foster critical and creative thinking on relevant issues.

You can download the Teaching in multicultural classes-timetable