EUROPEAN

DIVERSITY

EDUCATIONChildren as movie makers

APRIL 2014

Main Goals

- Be sensitive for Europe, other countries, othercultures and differences between them.

- Work on European diversity on children´s level.

- Be sensitive for attending diversity in theclassroom.

- Develop English vocabulary, listening andspeaking skills.

- Use innovating methodologies

- Produce a cartoon in each Country.

COMMUNICATION AND DISCUSSION

- Many bilingual children and many different

qualities in each group of children

- Different ways of understanding education

and culture.

- How diversity could be a resource.

- Give a positive way to understand diversity.

STEPS Watch the cartoon produced in Latvia

Speak about diversity in the classroom

Brainstorm: ideas for a new cartoon

Find postivite qualities for each child by groups

Brainstorm: think a new story using them. Decide the main plot.

Definition of the background.

Read and practice phonetics

Pictures: take a lot of pictures with a camera

The story was recorded by one native speaker and twenty-three non-native speakers.

DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM

AVALUATION Absolutely positive

Children’s satisfaction

Personal self-esteem

A little bit hard for children.

It was a long project with lots of work for kids at the end of a school year.

Children had lots of ideas but they couldn’t realize by theirown. Teachers had to help them with the camera andsoftware.

The recording was difficult.