Ftou kai Vgaino!
Toolkit of Activities for Multilingual and Social Emotional Empowerment
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- English
Highlights
Strengthening children’s resilience and basic skills is a priority for all of us. Teachers are uniquely placed to play a key role in creating a caring, harmonious environment where each child feels safe and encouraged to participate, to learn, and to express his/her opinions. Through this way, the child can foster confidence, build relationships with others, understand differences and embrace diversity, and contribute to enriching the society.
Today, in Greece and elsewhere, there are many ‘invisible’ children.
Children might be in school, but they are not actively participating in the classroom because of different barriers. Some of them might not even be in school because of these barriers.
For all refugee and migrant children, entering into a Greek school for the first time can be a very happy, but very challenging and stressful adventure.
Challenging not only for these children but equally for their teachers, adding an extra challenge to their already demanding and ambitious tasks. Teachers need to be equipped to create a welcoming, inclusive culture for all children to learn.
In order to address these needs while teaching foreign languages and other subjects in an efficient manner, teachers from UNICEF and its partners Solidarity Now and ELIX have come up with a range of activities that are participatory and can foster a creative and inclusive culture, respect diversity among learners from different nationalities and linguistic and cultural backgrounds, express emotions, and respect to different opinions.
UNICEF strongly believes that this approach is much needed not only in the current situation for the inclusion of refugees and migrants, but also in many other occasions in teaching languages and other subjects. We plan to disseminate this toolkit to a wider group of teachers so that children and adults learn better, not only languages but also necessary social-emotional skills to contribute to their well-being and to that of others.
