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EU Values: Promoting an Inclusive and Multicultural Classroom

Bring EU values into class, from cultural identity and inclusion to human rights and democratic debate.

About 3 hours

6 lessons

Self-paced

Free

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A self-paced course for primary and secondary teachers who want to build a classroom where every culture and identity is respected: the values of inclusion, human rights and democracy, with ready-to-use worksheets to explore them with your students.

What you will learn

  • Explore culture, identity and multiculturalism, and help students reflect on who they are and on implicit bias
  • Understand inclusion, diversity and equity in education, and create a classroom where every student feels safe and valued
  • Bring human rights into the curriculum and approach migration and cross-cultural mediation with empathy and critical thinking
  • Promote democratic practices, manage debates on sensitive issues and build a culture of tolerance in your school

About this course

Inclusion is one of the core values of the European Union and a priority of the Erasmus+ Programme. Today’s classrooms bring together students of different cultures, languages and backgrounds, and schools play a key role in turning this diversity into a strength. That requires a clear understanding of what inclusion means and practical ways to put it into practice every day.

This course links inclusion to the wider values of the EU. You will explore culture and identity, inclusion, diversity and equity, human rights, migration and cross-cultural mediation, and democracy in education, including how to manage debates on sensitive issues. Each topic combines key concepts with worksheets you can download and use with your students, from the Cultural Iceberg and the Diversity Wheel to activities on rights and migration. Lesson plans created by teachers who have worked on these topics are also available for inspiration.

Course content

6 lessons · about 3 hours

The course is organised in four topics. Each topic introduces the key concepts and alternates them with downloadable worksheets for your students, then closes with a short conclusion. A final quiz helps you check what you have learned.

  • 45% Exercises Quizzes and activities to try
  • 55% Slides Presentations and readings
  1. 1 Welcome to the Course! 1 topicLocked
  2. 2 1. Culture, identity and multiculturalism 7 topicsLocked
  3. 3 2. Inclusion, diversity and equity in the classroom 7 topicsLocked
  4. 4 3. Implementing human rights in the classroom 8 topicsLocked
  5. 5 4. Bringing democracy in the classroom 4 topicsLocked
  6. 6 Conclusion 3 topicsLocked
  7. Quiz Quiz
  8. Quiz Satisfaction Survey

The lessons open once you are enrolled.

Your trainer

Layla Dari

Layla Dari

Teacher trainer in Florence

Layla trains teachers in Florence on inclusion, intercultural education and ICT, and teaches Italian at Europass Italian Language School. She has long experience teaching Italian as a second language in multicultural classes, with teenagers, adults, migrants and asylum seekers.

  • European PhD in History of Arts and Performing Arts, University of Florence
  • DITALS certificate in teaching Italian as a foreign language, University for Foreigners of Siena
  • Author of the in-person courses Use ICT to Integrate Migrant Students in Your Classroom and Teaching Diversity through Heritage
  • Teacher trainer at Europass since 2019

Created within EU-TEAM – European Teachers on the Move, a project co-funded by the European Union.

Your certificate

Complete all the lessons and your certificate of completion is generated automatically, ready to download as a PDF.

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