Projekt-Updates

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

Januar 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!

Juli 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

Juni 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.

Die TIES Student Challenge – Schick‘ uns deine audio-visuelle Collage!

April 22, 2021

Ready for a challenge? Hast du genug davon, zu Hause zu sitzen ohne Freunde treffen zu können, keine neuen Leute kennenzulernen, nicht reisen zu können und keine neuen Aktivitäten entdecken zu können? Hast du Lust, deine alltägliche Umgebung auf eine ganz neue Art und Weise zu entdecken? Dann nimm an der TIES Student Challenge teil! […]

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Eine Lehrerin steht lächelnd und mit verschränkten Armen vor Schülerinnen und Schülern in einem Klassenzimmer.

Three key take-aways from interviews with teachers

Februar 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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Eine Illustration zweier lesenden Mädchen, Rücken an Rücken

The TIES project adapts to Covid-19

Dezember 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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