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Integrating Newly Arrived Migrants in Schools -Development Plan

| Name :Lila-Maria Minioti | Date:13/12/2016
| Email: minioti@aegean.gr | Name of school (optional):
| Country:Greece | Link to your Learning Diary: https://padlet.com/minioti/lila

How to use this document

This document is simply provided as a basic template for you to plan your actions to help the integration of newly arrived migrants in your school or classroom. You can use it as a collaborative document with peers or as your own planning sheet. Feel free to add, adapt or remove sections in order to make it as useful and relevant for your own purposes. You can focus on whole-school issues or only on aspects that are relevant for your own classroom. You will be asked to submit this plan for peer review in the final activity of the course so please make sure you write in English and try to ensure that the plan can be understood also from someone who does not know so much about your school.

This template will also help you to put your thoughts in order even if you are not sure if you will be able to implement all actions. You can use it to plan one more immediate action in detail and also note other issues down that need to be tackled - even if this is a task that you cannot or do not want to tackle yourself.

After the course you could use the document, for example, to:

-          Organize and prioritize your own next steps working with newly arrived migrant students

-          Brainstorm with colleagues what actions/ support you need

-          Discuss with your school management

-          Involve external partners

Who can I/we work with?

Use this table to identify all the potential partners inside and outside of school that can support your work

| Organisation/Colleague | Focus of cooperation | Contact
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|  Headmaster | Allows for all the arrangements, meetings, changes of schedule etc. to take place. Supervises and facilitates all contacts – sends emails, calls meetings, contacts local authorities etc.  | Live contact, telephone calls, emails
| Colleagues School Counsellor | Share   ideas and prepare an action plan. Split roles. Organize a Welcome Day  | Live contact

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Lessons learned:
a) never sak migrant students to tell their story because they may brink back traumatic experiences
b)have my regular students learn some basic words/phrases in the newcomer's language
c)use music, painting, miming games as an international code of communication
d)take them outside the classroom to face real-life situations and to learn by doing.

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I liked Erica's emphasis on the fact that we are not psychologists and that although we are driven by our love for kids we do need the help of specialists and support groups.

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Very useful info from the videos, especially the practical tips offered by Erica relating to  preparing the class to accept migrant students.
Hope to be able to implement them in class when i have migrant students

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As far as i know, many ideas presented in the Respact Program have been adopted in schools in Lesvos. Kids seem enthusiastic about the Welcome Day, the music and dance games, the sports activities, the decoration of their classes with multinational pictures etcAt the same time,.all these projects that kids do together promote acceptance and tolerance.

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A number of teachers in Greece have just been trained to work with migrants.As for the rest of them, i believe they try themselves to get the knowledge they need through on-line courses and ineracting with activists and volunteers.

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The parallel program could be put into practise for a couple of months, so that the the integration model can work more smoothly and effectively.
Another idea is to have newly arrived migrant students attend regular classes and additionallanguage classes in the evening.

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I haven't taught migrant students yet, but i believe that teachers, with the help of the community have to make these kids feel secure, help them stop being afraid, help them overcome the pain of having lost their homes or family members and give them back a home and the opportunity to dream of a better future. Having achieved that, we can then focus on teaching them through a new language and culture with all the difficulties that such an effort entails.

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I believe both migrant and native students gain from this integration. The former get hope for a better future and the latter learn to accept and respect diversity.

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My name is Lila-Maria and i am an English teacher and Teacher Counselor. Idon't teach at the moment, but when i get back to work in Mytilini, Lesvos I need to Know how to integrate migrant students in class, as there are thousands  of migrants and refugees on the island