International and multicultural week by Riitta Metsänen, D.Ed., Principal Lecturer & Leila Nisula, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer

 The question was what do we mean by multicultural teacher in this context?
A teacher who is teaching a class where  students come from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds or the teacher´s background differs from his/her class's major ethnic and cultural background.

A teachers´multicultural competence could be divided into three/four dimensions:

1.Knowledge

2.Skills

3.Attitudes and personality characteristics