Mises à jour du projet

Invitation to the TIES Launch Event

octobre 11, 2023

Are you a passionate educator seeking to enhance your students’ understanding of migration? Look no further! TIES has developed an innovaties series of teaching modules that will transform your classroom experience. After three years of work our nine, 45-minuted teaching modules are published. The modules are tailored to different school subjects (history, geography, social science, […]

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A group of young students sits on a sports pitch.

Bringing research into the classroom: What pupils in Vienna have learned from our module on climate change and migration

mai 31, 2023

One week after testing our TIES Module on Climate change and migration in a workshop in a high school in Vienna, Alterlaa, in February 2023, with project lead Lea Müller-Funk and team member and teacher Kerstin Brinnich, we asked 16-year-old students to summarize what they have learned in their own words. So much in advance: […]

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Pride & Joy Mural, Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Terence Faircloth from Flickr

Stereotypes, Unconscious Biases, and Teaching Migration in the Classroom: 10 Take-Aways from the TIES Workshop with Karim Amghar

janvier 10, 2022

‘’Through education we build the foundations of society, the problem is that the foundations of the Dutch education system as well as the European education system are, at large, incomplete’’. This is how Karim Amghar opened his online workshop on interactive and creative teaching methods on Monday 29th of November 2021. In a two-hour session, […]

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snapshot of student's audiovisual compositions

The TIES student challenge awards are out!

juillet 13, 2021

We are happy to announce that we received 34 submissions from school students across Europe who participated in the TIES student challenge and produced very interesting audio-visual collage about (i) what makes them feel at home when going for a walk around their neighborhood and (ii) the journey of an important object in their everyday […]

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the hand of a person taking notes in front of a screen in an online meeting

Reflecting on the TIES Launch Event

juin 29, 2021

After half a year of intense project work, during which we started establishing a network of engaged secondary school teachers across Europe, we thought it was time for everyone to meet up. Because of COVID, this happened later than initially planned, and online, but on 19 April, TIES team members finally met up with 11 […]

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reasons for migration brainstorm board by students with a photo of one of our educator in the call teaching

Teaching while in lockdown: testing our first teaching module

mai 18, 2021

In February, we had the opportunity to test our first teaching module, Drivers of Migration, with a group of secondary school students in Amersfoort, near Utrecht. We were very excited to run a pilot of our first teaching module as we needed feedback from students and teachers to improve the teaching module and to evaluate […]

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A graphic announcing the TIES student challenge.

Le défi étudiant TIES – Envoie-nous ton collage audiovisuel !

avril 22, 2021

Prêt à relever le défi ? Tu en as assez de rester à la maison, sans pouvoir rendre visite à tes ami(e)s, rencontrer de nouvelles personnes, voyager ou essayer de nouvelles activités ? Tu es curieux(se) de redécouvrir ton environnement quotidien d’une toute nouvelle manière ? Alors participes au défi étudiant TIES ! L’objectif L’objectif […]

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Une enseignante se tient devant les enfants assis dans la classe, les bras croisés mais souriant.

Three key take-aways from interviews with teachers

février 8, 2021

Where does the migration topic appear in European classrooms? What are teachers’ experiences with teaching migration? And what can TIES do to assist teachers in creating exciting learning experiences about migration? Over the past months, we have conducted many interviews with high-school teachers from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK to find answers to […]

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The TIES project adapts to Covid-19

décembre 3, 2020

The TIES project started in September 2020 just before the second Covid-19 wave hit Europe. The pandemic has not only altered our work on the project but is also changing the ways in which we do and think about teaching more broadly. The current measures have strongly affected our original project plans: many schools have […]

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