Competent teaching in culturally diverse classes: establishing a supervised peer consulting group for teachers

Issmer, C. (Christian)
Zentrum für Schulpsychologie Düsseldorf, Willi-Becker-Allee 10, 40227, Düsseldorf

 

Submission type

Oral only

Scheduled

Room 117, 11-07-2019, 13:30 - 15:00

Keywords

integration, migration, acculturation, peer consulting, intercultural exercises, international classes

Summary

The integration and stabilization of recently immigrated young people poses a major challenge for our schools. To support teachers working in international or language-learning classes, Zentrum für Schulpsychologie Düsseldorf regularly provides a supervised peer consulting group. This stable group of ten teachers meets six times during a school year under the qualified supervision of a school psychologist. The special thing about this offer is that it combines the concept of peer consulting with practical intercultural exercises and specific theoretical inputs. Each three-hour session starts with an introductory exercise to extend intercultural awareness of participants as well as provide impulses for their own teaching. The subsequent theoretical input aims at broadening their knowledge of migration and acculturation issues, thus increasing comprehension for the strains and needs of recently migrated young persons. Finally, the third part of each session consists of supervised peer consulting following a predefined procedure (Tietze, 2003). Here, participants are able to discuss difficult cases from their everyday teaching in culturally diverse classes and develop new ideas as well as problem-solving approaches together.

The current presentation briefly outlines the concept of our supervised peer consulting group and provides examples for the exercises and theoretical inputs applied.

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