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Goal
Goal
This site is intended to disseminate our Erasmus+ project so that other teachers and students can benefit from the knowledge acquired during the course Cultivating Diversitiy and Inclusion which took place at Converzum from the 26th of June to the 1st of July, 2023 in Budapest.
Our main aim is to make an impact on our school and the whole community.
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Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
• Identify cross-cultural communication barriers and ways to overcome them;
• Reflect on the importance of fostering inclusion and diversity in the classroom;
• Reduce prejudice and stereotypes;
• Master techniques to improve Communication across Cultures;
• Enhance students’ cultural awareness;
• Exploit ICT apps to raise awareness of cultural diversity.
Contents
Contents
Teaching in a multicultural classroom has become the norm for almost all teachers around the globe.
Monocultural classrooms are rare nowadays and 21st-century educators face the challenge of creating a safe learning and teaching environment by supporting and promoting diversity and inclusion.
Because intercultural communication sometimes encounters barriers, causes conflict, and might turn into an issue for learners, this course emphasized the importance of raising learners’ cultural awareness to foster diversity and inclusion.
This course provided us with the skills needed to teach in a multicultural classroom where diversity may sometimes not be welcomed.
We explored practical exercises and case studies on intercultural encounters and cross-cultural communication to become familiar with the right techniques for encouraging cross-cultural communication and avoiding prejudice and stereotypes among learners of different cultural backgrounds.
In addition, the course gave us the opportunity to explore the concept of Cultural Shock and its stages. We learnt to identify the stages of cultural shock and to offer a solution on how to overcome it. We also became acquainted with ICT apps that can be used in the classroom to encourage learners to interact among them and raise cultural awareness through interaction.
By the end of the course, we gained confidence in the ways how to foster and encourage diversity and inclusion in the classroom. We left the course with a set of practical activities we can implement in our classroom to help our learners understand the importance of diversity and inclusion and raise awareness among them.
Achievements
Achievements
We acquired knowledge about concepts such us empathy, assumptions, stereotypes and discrimination. Besides, we learned about the different types of bias: confirmation, hindsight, anchoring, actor-observer, false consensus effect, self-serving bias, unconscious and implicit bias. The Johari Window model was also explained as well as important theories such as the multicultural Education theory, the universal design for learning, the social constructivism and the intersectionality theory.
But the most important thing for us is the fact that we learned how to implement all these concepts and theories in the classroom through practical activities to be carried out with our students. We are now more aware of how to treat different students and to integrate all together in the classroom, making them feel an active part of the group and promoting the sense of belonging in an safe environment in which everyone is accepted no matter their origin, race, social or economic background, religion, sexual orientation or disability.
Videos
Videos
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