Cross-Cultural Teachers’ Training to Work With Migrant Students

Today more people are forced to leave their homes.Their growing number puts a considerable pressure on host countries.The latter try to help migrants adapt and integrate into new communities.One of the effective means to do that is education and training.Teachers who are working with migrant students become key actors in this process.As migrants' classes are ethnically and culturally diverse, teachers have to be well aware of cultural diversity and possess cross-cultural knowledge and skills.Practical experience proves that teachers are faced with the problem of lack of cross-cultural knowledge and skills.Investigating the best world practices how to provide teachers with necessary cross-cultural training to work with migrant students and learners can help outline the progressive ideas and introduce them in other countries.The article reveals the analysis of the best world practices for developing the teachers' ability to work with ethnically and culturally diverse groups of migrant students and learners.The theoretical grounds for the research were prepared by carrying out a review of scientific and pedagogical literature on teacher training to work in culturally diverse classes of migrant students and learners.To avoid misunderstanding of the research terms we defined the basic term "diversity" in relation to the nationality of students and learners and in the context of education.It was found out that to work efficiently with culturally diverse migrant students, teachers have to possess both general and specific pedagogical skills.