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LOCATION: Malaga
Due to the recent rapidly expanding cultural diversity by the growing increase in the number of immigrants and refugees into education systems in all Europe, school systems are facing strong challenges of multicultural students entering or presently within their school system. The objective of this course is resolving those challenges by increasing the teachers’ awareness of cultural diversity, detecting the needs of the present educational systems when dealing with cultural diversity in schools, developing methods and materials teaching migrant education programs of instruction, concerning the students’ cultural background and adapting lessons to these students’ specific needs, gaining practical ideas on how to apply different communication strategies in different cross-cultural contexts, exploring solutions to the challenges of working with migrants and refugees, and developing a plan for integrating intercultural training into your institutions and classrooms.
OBJECTIVES:
Refugee resettlement experience and specific needs of refugee students
Importance of integration of migrant & refugee children in EU societies
Strategies for responding to the effects of trauma
Practical suggestions for your school to have a welcoming environment
Building a community within the classroom
Culturally Responsive Instructional Strategies
Responsive classroom applications for intercultural communication
Practical ways to deal with cultural differences in classroom
Connecting refugee students in school to the local community
Importance of national language acquisition for migrants and refugees
Best practices and policies of national language acquisition across Europe
Other intercultural communication tools
Supplementary activities in and out of the school
Best practices and policies to embrace cultural diversity and integration
Community project development with related stakeholders
Developing a school policy plan for each participant school
Day 1 | Activities |
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10:00-12:00 | |
12:00-14:00 | |
16:00-20:00 | |
Day 2 | Activities |
10:00-11:30 | |
11:30-13:00 | |
13:00-14:00 | |
Day 3 | Activities |
10:00-11:30 | |
11:30-13:00 | |
13:00-14:00 | |
Day 4 | Activities |
10:00-11:30 | |
11:30-13:00 | |
13:00-14:00 | |
Day 5 | Activities |
10:00-11:30 | |
11:30-13:00 | |
13:00-14:00 |