WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WOULD TEACH YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT YOUR SUBJECT?

  As an infant school teacher and knowing how important is teaching children at that ages I think the most important thing is that they will be able to know our world. What I mean is we should let them know everything about our culture and different cultures in our world. I think that the most important thing is teaching them in an intercultural atmosphere.

  How would I teach it? Well, every week we will introduce a new country or a new human civilization and we will follow different steeps. For example, we will introduce it at the assembly. Some teacher will dress up as a culture’s character and she will tell one sort story and introduced them in the country or culture we are going to work at class.

  Secondly, we will speak about what they know about it. Furthermore, we will show them a video where there were some children explaining them what we are going to do and talking about that culture or country. After that, they will do a worksheet and we will say them that they have to explain, however they wanted, what they have understood. For example, they can do a picture o write some story… anything else. Obviously that may take up to 3 sessions.

  In addition, we will do different workshops every week. We will organize the class in different groups, what is more, they will work in different class with one teacher so we will need two extra teachers to do that. In those workshops we will do something relevant about that culture, for example if we will study Brazil’s culture we maybe will do the traditional costume of the Brazil’s carnival. Furthermore we will perform our own carnival party at school when we finished the lesson. 

  Generally, we will go for a hike. In Brazil for example there are wide rivers and important river basin like the Amazon River. So we will visit some river or visit local nature centers and gardens, climb up mountains, and explore lazy creeks.


  Undoubtedly let them know everything about their earth but going out and see it, not doing it inside their classroom just like to experience it by their own. As well as the involvement of the families is particularly crucial because without them we won’t be able to do that. If they want they can come to the class and participate in the workshops and of course in our trips.

  To summarize, our methodology is an active one where children can experience with our reality and their knowledge will be as a functional learning. They are able to know different nationalities and cultures and we will teach them in an intercultural atmosphere where the most important thing is to respect one another.