Intercultural Education: Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms
About this course
Classrooms today bring together students from many countries, cultures and languages, and many schools regularly welcome newcomers who arrive in the middle of the year, sometimes without speaking the school language. This diversity is a huge resource for learning, but it also brings real challenges: helping new students settle in, teaching content to learners who are still developing the language, and making sure no student feels excluded because of their origin, culture or language. This intercultural education course gives you practical strategies to turn your classroom into a welcoming, inclusive and enriching space for everyone. It is designed for primary and secondary classrooms.
Over five days, you will explore what intercultural education means and how to build a classroom culture where every student's identity is valued. You will learn how to welcome newcomer students and their families, from the first day to their full integration in the group. You will discover strategies for multilingual classrooms, such as using students' home languages as a resource, supporting learners who are still learning the school language and making subject content accessible to everyone. You will also learn how to include diverse perspectives in your lessons, use activities that prevent prejudice and discrimination, and respond firmly and fairly when discriminatory incidents happen. The course is practical and interactive, with real examples, case studies and group work.
By the end of the week, you will have designed an intercultural activity, welcome plan or multilingual lesson for your classroom and created a plan to make your teaching more inclusive of all cultures and languages.
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Integrate intercultural and multilingual approaches into everyday teaching.
- Evaluate the needs of students from different backgrounds and adapt their teaching accordingly.
- Create a classroom climate where every student feels welcome, respected and valued.
- Collaborate with colleagues and families to support newcomer and multilingual students.
- Plan the welcome of newcomer students and their families, from the first day to full integration.
- Use strategies that make lessons accessible to students who are still learning the school language.
- Apply activities that value students' home languages and cultures in the classroom.
- Use activities and materials that include diverse perspectives and help prevent prejudice.
- Respond firmly and fairly to discriminatory comments and incidents.
- Understand what intercultural education is and why it benefits all students.
- Identify the needs of newcomer students, including language, learning, emotional and social needs.
- Recognise how students' home languages and cultures can support their learning.
- Explain how prejudice and discrimination appear at school and how they affect students.
NEXT COURSES
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Admin & organizational costs.
- Documentation support.
- Coffee break.
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services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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