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I don't have migrant in my classroom but students with parent's born somewhere also. They feel embarrassed to talk about it. We can start from them emocions

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Few migrants in my little town and fewer in my classes but we know the problem. We have had some lessons held by the police to get the students more involved in the social and political issue trying to find a solution.

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The most effective collaboration can be achieved
if will be more engagement for migrants

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I have never had so far immigrant children in my class but there are others who would recommend this activity

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I've never done but I'd recommend to teachers, expecially to secondary school teachers and middle school where it's easy they meet peers and equals in ages.

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The involvement of cultural mediators would help a lot to create a school intercultural ethos!

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Excellent idea in order to raise awareness but with a lot of problems. We need permission from our principal, our school director and of course from parents.

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I dont have new migrants in my school and my region, but probably I would ask about their habituds about their culture, language, if we can communicate in English or Franch.

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At the moment I don't have new migrants in my classroom. I have foreign students that were born in Italy, but in the past years I have a pupil from Bangladesh and from Sri Lanka.
We use cultural mediator,  person who helps immigrants with integration into society   person who helps immigrants with integration into school. They help family and students.
Sometimes we went to workshops in Laboratorio migration  of Genova  help and activities in order to help classrooms to stay better together.
We work on very interesting tales and books for primary school.
I like to suggest one of them, the author is Yuichi Kimura  in una notte di temporale.

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It is very important to bring the migrants in  the class so it raises awareness. It creates a strong bond empathic.

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It is very important to bring the migrants in  the class so it raises awareness.
the students are very interested to hear testimony.
It creates a strong bond empathic

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I agree with others, bringing migrants or refugees in class is very important to raise awareness. Not matter how much the teachers explain their situations, if Ss listens a refugee it will be more efficient. I didn't bring one to my class but I would love.

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It is very important to bring the migrants in your class so it raises awareness.

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In my country there has been a long traditon of kids from other arriving from other countries attending schools, however, it has not been very common for newly  arrived migrants to do so. I believe that the best way to help these students would be for all the teachers to co-operate with the Municipality of the area as well as other formal institutions. We should get all the help we can for those in need

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There is no doubt, that bringing newly arrived refugees into our classroom is a power thing to raise awareness about this issue.The power of storytelling!

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We always try to do all the things we can do to make migrants to integrate

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My school is in Catania (Sicily), a city  where there is a long tradition about newly arrived migrants. Generally all teachers collaborate to develop a good integration and dialogue into classroom. Teachers make personalized study plans to help pupils too. However I think it's is very important known new activity and good practice.

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I think I could collaborate with the Religion teacher and the priest of the local church. They would be able to put me in touch with organizations of volunteers and newly arrived migrants or refugees and I could arrange a meeting with my students.

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My students could experience the inclution of a newly arrived migrant a few years ago, when a student from Georgia came to our school. The new classmate was welcomed and included in the best way. With the help of the other students she also learned Italian language very fastly. A great experience!

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The arrival of migrants in the classroom is not complicated. In the north of Italy for many years in the classes coming economic migrants from different countries, Africa, China and eastern europe. In my school we have alphabetic and hospitality projects. For us, a migrant in the classroom is a resource.

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I think that bringing a newly arrived migrant to school help a lot the class . The students can talk,can ask a lot of questions getting to know more about environment, traditions, culture, mentalities. The great benefit is returning home with a greater sense of the world and a deeperunderstanding of themselves and their culture and making friends.

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I think that bringing a newly arrived migrant to school really helps the class see and understand what it means to be a migrant. The students can ask some questions, and talk, and realize that there are not so many differences  as they share something.

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Even if there is no existing European  network about this topic I think it will be easy to invite a migrant to talk inside classrooms. There are many local and national organizations in Italy and also in this town who can give us support. I think that it will be better to organize a small project inside school in collaboration with other teachers in order to involve a higher number of students.

The project, of course, must be approved by the headmaster and  by the council of teachers expecially if there are economical expenses to substain. I think that the only problem is burocracy but if the project is well detailed and presented in the right terms there will be no problems for it to be approved.

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It is very good for students to understand that one day ,maybe, they will be in refugees contition

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Of course it's very good for our puils to be in closer contact with refugees but It's not so easy to bring a refuge in t he class because you have to know him or her quite enough so you know how things will go with your pupils.

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It's a good idea to come into contact with newly arrived students, but you have to be aware of the difficulties they could have in the interaction with the teacher and the students.

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There are not refugees in our school and town as well. Our town is fat away from the Refugee Centre. So I have no possibility to invite the refugees into my classroom.

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As many have already mentioned, the best way is to bring the refugees into the classroom.

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It is not so easy just to bring newly arrived migrants into the classroom, because you have to have a closer contact and confidence. Sometimes these students are traumatized. Even if you have some in your class it could take a lot of time until they start to talk about their situation. They also have to speak the language.

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There are quite a few refugees in my school. Therfore they are already starting to interact with one another.

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I'm lucky because my school is also home to the CPIA Salerno, and my students usually to see the immigrants around the school, so it's very easy to invite them during a lesson

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I agree with Maria. The best way of showing what is the real situation of new arrived migrants in Euorpean countries, is bringing them to the classroom.

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I agree with Maria V. Welcoming refugees in the classroom is an excellent idea but hard in practice...

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I don't have any refugees in my kindergarten group. Only children with parents working in other countries or who children who returned from other countries with theur parents.

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There some refugees and migrants who are ready to take part in lessons and meetings. They speak Polish. They can be invited to schools, I read some relations from Słupsk. There would be probably some problems with the costs of the trip and accomodation.

There are some individual stories prepared by ngos in You Tube. I am going to present them to students but mostly in a traditional paper way (because of the lack of proper IC facilities in my school).

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In our school (from Primary  to Secondary) there are 10% of migrants integrate, not refugees.
we try to teache the advantages of multiecthic society

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In my school there are not refugees but a lot of migrants integrate.

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I definitely believe that it would be a great experience for my students to bring newly arrived migrants into my classroom but difficult to realise it. Refugees may not be willing to come to our school but bureaucracy as well won't make it easy either.

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In  the school where I teach   we integrate all the migrants

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I think the main problem would be to find refugees willing to come to school and tell their experience which is surely dramatic and not easy to share and remember. Surely there should be some mediator to help.

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In our school (from primary to high school)the rate of migrants is high. We try to integrate them respecting their origin.

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In my place we don;t have refugees but on the other we are already a multicultural society as there are Christians, Muslims ( of Turkish origin,of Pomak origin and of Roma origin) and also Armenians living together for centuries. Thirty years ago immigrants from ex Soviet Union came and settled here speaking Russian and the dialect of Pontus most of them Christians. So in our schools , classes have a multicultural synthesis and that means we have to take it in consideration when we speak and teach. Students follow the way the city is arranged ecen in the schoolyard that means divided in their own groups and mainly speaking turkish the Muslims . When I speak to the students I have to think what I say just in case something is transfered in the wrong way to their homes. But my main aim is to help them know each other and cooperate.

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I think that schools and teachers should be supported by specialised staff in order to help these young people who have suffered devastatig trauma

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I think that schools and teachers should be supported by specialised staff in order to help these young people who have suffered devastatig trauma

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For every child who's mother tongue is not Bulgarian, must been charted a team to help him, get him to provide additional advises. This is done in collaboration with a team of teachers and other specialist. That is why the theme of migrants need to acquire more visibility in our educational systems.

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It is realy complicated.You need first the Directorate's permision, and then you need to discuss alot in the school in order to convince your headmaster and other teachers.Finally you may have also resistance from parents.But its worth to fighit for...

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In the next time and exactly in February 2017 I organized a meeting between my students and some refugees that in this moment live in Biella town. I asked to association: CARITAS and I spoke with the responsable . We arranged a meeting. I explained  the families our intentions and they agreed . I hope it will be a good opportunity to fall the prejudices.

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One time we shared some traditional uses from the original country of our students with the families. We went to their home and prepare cakes with them and finally made a theatral rappresentation about that. It has been very important for all of us.

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I share the difficulties of my italian colleagues to arrange meetings at school.

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In the past, I have discussed this topic with kids who had very recently immigrated to Italy and I have let them talk about their and their parents' experience. I had discussion with students whose parents had fleed because of war, from ex Jugoslavia or Ruanda, and they told their peers about the stories of their families.
here, we have an organization (Caritas) helping newly arrived immigrants, but bringing them to school (even with their help) would be quite a work, because of bureaucracy. Even so, in my school we are discussing a project about immigration so I guess we'll get in touch with Caritas to get their support!

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The more engagement to newely arrived migrants the most effective collaboration can be achieved

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Please, don't laugh at me!. Near the place where I live there are some shelters. I found them thanks to Facebook. I've already contacted them and I got a meeting. Sometimes Facebook can help :-)

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I found very interesting material in the following webpage:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/migration_en

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I think the main problem is to convince the parents and the other colleagues to be open-minded and to agree with such initiatives

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I think this is a great idea, and I hope to succeed him to implement over time.
Some years ago I had an African boy was very good at math I met him again after years and he recognized me immediately.

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Three years ago, I worked in a secondary school where arrived a boy escaped from Libia. He was a skilled worker there and he had a good salary. But when the civil war began he was arrested and many of his colleagues,too. Someone were tortured and killed. He said that only possibility was to escape by the sea. He had to pay a lot of money to ship to Italy. He arrived to Cagliari and he , finally was free. His history was a very important element to discuss about the refugeers in the

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In my school, it's very difficult to organize meeting with any outside organizations. The teachers must write projects only in September - October and must be approved etc....There's too much bureaucracy!

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I'd love to join a project with other schools or other ministerial bodies, however to do this, unfortunately, it takes many permissions, and then a long time to organize it.

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The main problem for me is that the number of migrants arriving in my locality are already in touch with friends, family and organizations, and come primarily for the work. For a few years, then, the situation has stabilized, so it is difficult to find new migrants who have just arrived here.

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As we don't have migrants nearby our school, I want to invite a missioner who spent many years in Africa to tell my students about children she taught to.

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I agree with Alexandra. The first and the most difficult is to have parents agreement because kids are always ready to collaborate if their parents are open-mind.

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My main concern about such an activity is the reaction of the parents.

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The more engagement to newely arrived migrants the most effective collaboration can be achieved

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working with a NGO to bring the real life into class is crucial.

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An activity that used to be done often in schools was the encounter with refugees. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) had a team of refugees who would come to schools and spend the day there, holding talks, celebrating with their music and so on. It was an event that humanised refugees, they were no longer the tired face in the newspaper, they had a story, they had likes and dislikes, they had hope and most of all they were not victims. They were people trying to stand on their own two feet again, after fleeing from their homes.  The students learnt a lot from this event, but sadly it was stopped because teachers did not do follow ups to consolidate what had been learnt

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In my school every year there is at least a migrant. We organized for them courses of italian speech,  but I noticed that some of them aren't interested or don't want to learn the language. It depends from their origin. The african migrants are the most involved, thenasian ones the less.
In my city Caritas, a no profit organizatín, organize workshops in schools to talk about migrants and refugees.

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I teach italian language in a secondary school and my students are between 11 to 14 years. Often there are foreign students in my classes. From last year in my first class there is a girl from India. At the beginning she was very silent and embarrassed, but this year she understands and speaks Italian well enough  and so she enjoy to partecipate in school life. Unfortunately there are no contacts with classmates outside of school because there are still many prejudices.

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I dont have imigrants in my classroom,but i talk about my students about it.We try to understand their languace,culture,their life mood and the reason for leaving their country

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I have migrants in my class. I have no problem with them They try to get language and new situation of their life. I just try to understand their problem and help them as I can

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@ Nora: Could you describe some activities that you do with the newly arrived migrants who you bring to class? How do you make them feel comfortable and how do you explain to them why you invited them? Do you think it would be a good idea to invite refugee kids from a class at my school to my own class? I'd be curious how you would prepare this workshop and happy to learn more about your ideas.

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In our school it has been decided short time ago, that there would be migrants coming to school, but in the afternoon. Many parents of the students of the morning school were opposed. The headmaster assured them that the migrant children would use different toilets (!!!!) and that the classroom would be immediately cleaned after the lesson (!!!!!). I would really like to invite migrant children to my class, but I don´t know how these parents would react.

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Every september, at the beginning of the course, there are newly arrived migrants (not refugees) in my classroom. In my opinion, how students welcome immigrants is not a big problem. It’s a teacher who acts as a role model on how to deal with newly arrived migrants. I think that the worst issue is the language. Ignorance of language can worsen integration. In Spain, this case doesn’t occur when they are immigrants from South America or Guinea. In that case the integration is much easier.

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The school alone can not do much without outside help, because they are children with great difficulties and then there is a need for many permission to organize a meeting with these new migrants. This thing is feasible in a high school where there are older kids and not in a primary school where there are small children.

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I had some migrants in my class but I have never had refugees. To tell the truth ,I have never organized meeting with my students and migrants .It's quite difficult because students seems to be very sociable and polite but afterwards they are very individualistic, worried and a bit selfish .I tried to be very kind with my foreign students but they were always shy and reluctant.

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In my school there are some migrants arrived from Africa. In our conversations they told me something about their migration journey but I don't think in Italy is possible to do more without a serious organisation.

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I have never brought a newly arrived migrant at school. It would  surely be a very moving experience for my students.

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I have never had any migrant or refugee in my class up to now at least, so I am not in a position to mention any activity. I just wonder how do you approach such a student? Do you wait until he/she is opened to you or is there a procedure?

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I had a new arrived migrant (not a refugee) from Ghana last year. it was very difficult: she spoke only english, and she had some domestic problems. She was kind and polite, but she was shy. She did'nt want to have speak with any classmate except another girl from Ghana. the teacher tried to help them, also for the domestic problem: we gave her simple survey (sometimetranslated in English) of the subject, she went to an Italian L2 course, but it wasn't very useful. The girl was not passed. Unfortunatly the situation is almost the same this year...
By the way e keep on trying. We also work for raising awarness about people coming from Asia or Africa reading books and newspapers and watching films. Next week we are going to watch a film of Festival del Cinema Africano.
http://www.cinemafricano.it/

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i had a refugee in the past among my students. and in the past i organized meeting with the responsible of a refugee group

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I’ve never organized a meeting between my students and refugees. I think it could be difficult, because of school rules and insurance rules. Must I have also authority’s permission in Italy? I wonder if the meeting could be organized in neutral zone outside the school, as a park or an NGO headquarters, for instance during a welcome event, or a musical event. Another matter is language: many refugees come from Africa (Eritrea, Somalia, Ethyopia) and they can’t speak Italian nor English.

I think that I can easily organize a meeting with my students’ migrant parents, but they usually are not refugees.

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Typically from us, when you have a refugee child in class who does not say a single word of Italian is a little tragedy, because it does not provide any kind of support that allows an intermediary translator. Then the poor teacher and the poor kid communicate with gestures in the hope of not misunderstand each other and learn a few words of one and the other language which bridge witter.

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Given the school regulation and the distance between our school and the place where immigrants are staying at present, it would be very difficult to bring an immigrant in the classroom. In case it was realised, it would be a really good chance for students to talk to an immigrant face to face and see that immigrants are individuals who deserve being treated on equal terms as the rest.

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I didn't face such problems yet

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I think it is not so simple, we want to present cultural mediators, and many autorizazioni at various levels. However I think it would be useful to have a real confrontation between young people and this reality that they feel so much talk, but fear and in some cases refuse.

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I think that this would be almost impossible considering the area where we operate.

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Fortunately, in our island because of gratefule sense of habitants infront of their brevious help, love newly upcoming migrants and give them support of any kind. Cihildren try to communicate with migrants students and speak to them to any language can help them.

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It is most important for students to get in contact with newly arrived migrants so that they do not remain this anonymous mass that is talked about in the media.

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Many refugee  childs don't afford to go to the school. They need money,  dresses, shoes, and etc...education tools. We have to support socially and economicly. They need all things. We deal with understand them. My students ( their age is 15-18) think they are fear because they dont want to battle their country. And they  no need and helping., because they already rich. We have to explain refugee facts. This is ethic and humanitrarien responsibility.

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A visit of an immigrant to a Greek school is extremely difficult task for a teacher, because of the laws. We need a special permission of the authorities. What can be done is a students visit in the reception areas and accommodation of refugees. Also, an event which is organized by our school for immigrants is a meeting which will be accompanied by voluntary contribution of students, such as bazaar and food and fresh cooking. The money that students will earn by these will be given to newly arrived migrants.

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I've already been to bring an immigrant in the classroom, but not to speak only of immigration but of music. His story involved alot the students. Besides me there was an animator of an NGO: this presence certainly helps a lot. SI is an activity very rewarding: it is necessary only that it is inserted into a coherent educational activity.

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Even if the State provides laws that establish the rights and duties of immigrant children, even in a situation of illegality, to attend school and provide specific host devices, often the difficulties are addressed only by classe.Figure teachers such as cultural mediators or facilitators to teach there, and then it is up to the teacher to design learning paths that encourage the child 's integration in the respect of his identity and that of the class.

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I'm really concerned about parents' reactions. People here are worried and think in a brutal and simple way: migrants/refugees are dirty; they're spreading disesases; they steal; they make us even poorer. Stuff like this.

But I get my constitutional and statutory freedom of teaching, may be blessed the Italian Constitution. I launched a preliminary brainstorming in a class (13th grade). First results in this ratherly caothic padlet (in progress): https://padlet.com/eth98/uzuu6imhxrjd . They wrote, sang, draw, serched the Net and pasted their materials in a common blackboard.

The students' reactions are very different. Some are enthusiastic. Others are terrified. “I'll never speak to those people”.

Some students have taken indipendent initiatives. A girl made friends with a refugee. Stopped him in a street and talked to him. She accompanied him to visit the historic sites of the city (migrants and refugees are not allowed to enter historical places and urban centres here in Italy: they have to stay in the suburbs). Here you can see a poligonal wall, maybe Vth century bC, and a medioeval gate. She asked him to tell his story. She embraced him because she understood that no human being ever touched him here, except officials.

I'm concernded by these reactions, too.
But I suppose this is a problem of mine.

She sent me this photo by phone saying:”I want you to know”.

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It's quiet complicated, but possible if there is a kind of warm-up to prepare students

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Thanks a lot, it is a good idea! I will contact organizations in Rome to organize a specific event in my class room

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Every year newly arrived migrants come to my school. Not many but every year we have the possibility of bringing their reality to our students. However, the way in which this topic is addressed in the classroom depends on the particular style of the teacher among other factors. In my opinion there should be a previous work with our students from the moment we have known that a new migrant student is going to join us. Once arrived in we must prepare carefully the possible activities -presentation for example- with him or her.

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I am somehow skeptical about inviting a refugee in the class and this is for two reasons. Firstly, you need a special permission from the educational authorities, which is quite difficult. Secondly, some parents may consider it "dangerous" bringing their children in contact with refugees. What about inviting both a Greek Smyrna-refugee (in 1922 Greek people who lived in Smyrna viciously flee to Greece) and a newly arrived migrant? In this way the students will have the chance to find similarities and differences between them. And I'm sure that they will be surprised!