Finding external partners by Teacher Academy

Natalia, Italy

2017-04-03 12:49:41 UTC

I think that in order to bring migrants or refugees into our classrooms in Italy it is really important to get the support, committment and involvement of the entire school - director, schoolhelpers, colleagues, parents, etc.

Tina_Macedonia Greece

tinamellos — 2017-04-03 13:01:39 UTC

I overall agree with Natalia (Italy) that the whole school's personel has to be activily involved as well as the parents, if we want the migrants to be gradually become members of the school; and feel happy for it

Casian Marian, Romania

2017-04-03 15:17:19 UTC

It's not only essential to engage with external partners to get information but also for these partners to join and support our work in the classroom.

Serena A., Italy

dolcefollia79 — 2017-04-03 15:39:21 UTC

I think that it is important to get support to migrants or refugees into our classes. The whole school's personel has be involved if we want the migrants or refugees to become members of the school first and then member of the our country.

Patrizia Italy

2017-04-03 16:20:30 UTC

I favor migrants or refugees into our classrooms

Suela Braushi

suelabraushi — 2017-04-03 17:51:01 UTC

Albania
I think that it is important to get support to migrants or refugees into our classes.

Pietro-Italy

pierolauro — 2017-04-03 17:51:47 UTC

In the school I actually teach I have the opportunity to welcome migrants in my classrooms since the school is involved in a project called 'migrantes liberi' which helps people coming from Africa to be part of our local reality finding a job or letting them pursue an education. Some of these young men are interacting with my students since they together team up to take care of the green areas surronding the school such as meadows, plants and flowers. My students are quite curious about their lives and ask questions about their former life in ther countries of origin. They also ask about their future plans and how they think they can achieve their objectives.

mrscarmela — 2017-04-03 17:55:48 UTC

Valbona ,Albania

valbona_mata2 — 2017-04-03 18:28:22 UTC

I agree that migrants to get in touch with people and environment around need the community supported
Also the school and organization should collaborate with each other.
In Albania these kind of experience is missing.
A suggestion will be collaboration with foreing project.To learn more their experince.

Anna Naddeo - Napoli - Italy

2017-04-03 20:18:16 UTC

There arent migrants or refugees in my
school but I think it 's important , for a really inclusion knowing their stories and why they left
their country.

George Kyriakopoulos (Greece

2017-04-03 20:54:10 UTC

I have done seminars with international amnesty or the theatrical network in education. In both cases part of the activities provided are interviews with actual migrant people... adults of course.
Under no circumstances can children or adolescents be used as models for storytelling.

Ida,Italy

2017-04-03 21:10:52 UTC

In my classroom work to project for inclusion.

Angela, Italy

2017-04-03 22:07:11 UTC

I think that in schools where there are refugees and migrants there should be a proper support project for their integration.

Ana, Portugal

acfilipe36 — 2017-04-03 22:39:17 UTC

When children encounter images of refugees, there is always a first impact that is violent, which is traumatic. But there is another problem. The constant barrage of information on refugees tends to create a more insensitive, even reactionary society. "
How to explain to students?

Antonella, Ital

antonellacaprarelli — 2017-04-04 07:58:46 UTC

I think external support is very important. Headmaster or the referent teachers for Inclusion should take contact with all the organizations working on the territory and create a functional network for migrants. Our first contact is the Shelter for refugees and asylum seekers that is the place where most of them live, or other associations on the territory

Clara, Italy

clarag — 2017-04-04 08:13:50 UTC

Once you find the right people to invite in class, how to prepare Students for the meeting? How much information can we tell to let them feel confident? How to manage the lesson with migrants or refugees? Let them free to tell and to answer any questions or decide together if there are off topics or topic to discuss better with other kind of experts? My students are 10-14.

Luisa, Italy

2017-04-04 12:23:28 UTC

It is not easy to bring a newly arrived migrant into a classroom in my school, as you should need to involve the Headmaster , the school concil and get they authorisation. A part from that, I don't think I will never invite somebody who has been suffering and has not come out from a painful situation jet, to tell his/her story to a group of adolescents. The matter is too delicate both for the refugee or for my students.
Why not instead invite sombody from UNHCR? The can explain the students the latest facts and figures on refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and other persons for which the agency has a mandate. Comment videos and involve students in an interesting discussion.

Ida,Italy

2017-04-04 12:26:23 UTC

In my school unfold a project for favourite the inclusive migrants or refugees

Βασιλική Κρικώνη, Greece

vasikriko — 2017-04-04 15:47:37 UTC

Bringing newly arriving migrants into class isnt easy. First of all, you must be sure about the person that you invite. The handling of the teacher is equal important.Offering such an evidential experience to the students is very useful in order to understand and feel the migrants.

Vanesa, Croatia

2017-04-04 15:54:16 UTC

It's not an easy thing to do.

Peppe,, Sicily

2017-04-04 16:38:10 UTC

An external support is the first thing to do. That's is very very important. I think that the inclusion should be gradual.

Valentina - Roma

valebell80 — 2017-04-04 18:26:23 UTC

I searched on internet some projects between school and NGOs that Care refugees. I found many project so I think it's not difficult to find in Rome refugees who want tell Their personal histories to students to help eliminate prejudice.
For ex. with collaboration of Centro Astalli EVERY year the students have the chance to Listen Direct testimonies of men and women who have lived the experience of exile.

Claudia Renda, Italy

2017-04-04 20:11:11 UTC

In my school CPIA we organize some projects for the inclusione. We partecipe to formative corse to support lessons because is no so simple build classroom where arrive refugees.

Monica, Italy

moni_fornelli — 2017-04-05 09:29:33 UTC

I teach in CPIA school so we have classes which are composed of only foreign people and refugees. MY colleagues and I, we ask for an help to the associations which take care of them. Personally I ask for suggestions and I prefer to know something about my future students (difficulties, problems, general information about their characters and how they are used to behave). In this case I can have an idea on what doing or saying in class without creating embarrassment or any difficulties.

Bianca B, Romania

bbyancka — 2017-04-05 15:23:30 UTC

We don't have migrants leaving nearby, but the parents and some of my students are migrating themselves to another european countries

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece

jennykaroumpali — 2017-04-05 15:36:18 UTC

There virtually no refugees in the region where the school I work is. It would be a good idea that a refugee from another region in Greece could talk to the pupils of my school via internet (Skype etc). We must be sure that refugees are willing to talk about their ordeal, as some refugees may not be ready to share.

Barbara, Germany

2017-04-05 18:23:00 UTC

Our school has many external partners that help integrate the newly arrived migrants as well as all other migrants into the community. There is a team of retired teachers, who have volunteered to tutor the pupils in Maths and German at school after school hours. A group of native speaker teachers from Albania, Turkey, Portugal and Egypt come to teach the migrants their native tongue for two periods once a week. A group of church funded social workers have organised free-time activities for refugees and residents to get to know each other better, integration activities. The local sports teams let them participate for lower to no fees. Our school offers a Cafe once every two months for migrant student's parents and siblings,, where the children can play games and the parents can meet other parents and they can speak to one another in which ever language they wish. The Job Center comes once a week and helps prepare the older students for applying for and looking for work experiences and or apprenticeships. We have a career teacher who keeps in contact with many companies and institutions that support the efforts to integrate the graduating students in the working world. Our school has all of these partners, because they have always had to carry the load when waves of migrants have come to our town in Germany.

Piera , Italy

2017-04-05 18:57:46 UTC

In my area there are some associations external partners that help migrants. But we as a schoo, which gather all migrants of the province, do many activities to get these people included.

María, Spain

isasama10 — 2017-04-05 21:32:19 UTC

It takes up a team of teachers and the support of the headmaster to organise such events, of course, but I believe it is worth doing. In my local area there are many associations related to different ethnic communities. I am thinking of organising an event with several members of these communities to see their common and different viewpoints and contrast their experiences and beliefs with our students´own feelings.

Nalan,Turkey

eney — 2017-04-06 10:56:23 UTC

Inviting a refugee to the classroom is a perfect idea. becausestudents may have the chance to ask the questions in their mind from firs hand.They may learn tragic stories of of the refugees and thie way they can emphatise with them

If I were

2017-04-06 11:39:10 UTC

Victoria, Greece

2017-04-06 11:45:10 UTC

If I were ever asked to integrate an immigrant in my classroom, I would do it without bringing emphasis to the refugee's personal story. I would integrate THE STUDENT not THE REFUGEE. I believe that my primary school students would be distressed in the case of such story-telling. Also, I would be afraid as to the way such an experience would be assimilated by the rest of the class - let us bear in mind that even an instance of immature child's behaviour could destroy the whole effort.

Adriana, Italy

2017-04-06 15:47:17 UTC

As teacher and educator, we have to consider the person and not his/her state of refugee. Migrants are first of all PEOPLE as everyone else.

Maria Intrieri, Rome-Italy

mri5 — 2017-04-06 16:52:05 UTC

This is not of concern, but of legality: more and more often in our schools (I am referring more specifically to the Italian context) there is attention and alarmist exaggeration by families who contest initiatives that go beyond the entrenched habits. From there it triggers an action of pressure that comes from above, they are only intended for the countless inconveniences and dangers that introduce 'foreign' people at school context may result. The associations involved in helping migrants often work in 'shadow' or prefer to work parallellamente literacy of migrants, seeing the school status as a competitor. In fact, I think the role of such associations could first of all be to mediate the relationship with the school and the children that attend instead of just doing an action of public all'istitutzione replacement. On the other hand, however, it would take even more foresight and initiative on the part of school authorities, but this is another chapter of the matter ...

Angeliki Kougiourouki, Greece

akougiou — 2017-04-06 18:14:28 UTC

I haven't yet invite a newlly arrived migrant into my classroom but I remember some a couple of years ago the 2 girls from Avganistan who were attending lessons in another primary school and they were coming to us only to attend the gym rythm club. They were shy at the beginning and we, pupils and I tried to make them feel comfortable among us. We were asking them some questions about their personal story trying not to make them feel uncomfortable.
But If I would like to bring a newlly arrived migrant into my classroom I would ask for help the ARSIS, an NGO for young people located in my city to advice me.

Paola Arduini, Italy

2017-04-06 20:12:04 UTC

In my school in Rome there is a long experience of collaboration with migrant associations, ONG and institutional partners that support migrants and refugees. It' a positive experience and I would recommend to take contacts with local associations

Rossana, Italy I've never done something like that but I could give it a try. I read a lot of enthusiast comments from my colleagues that I think it's really worth trying.

rossaco — 2017-04-07 14:46:38 UTC

Luciana Daniela,Italy

2017-04-07 15:19:44 UTC

I 've never brought a newly arrived migrant into my classrooms but my son ,as a student,did the experience to meet a young migrant boy in his classroom .It was a very good experience from all points of view.The boy told them about his family,his difficult journey to reach our country ,his living conditions before and after his journey.
My son and his classmates were deeply touched by the boy's story
and they have undestood better such worldwide problem (the problem of current migration I mean)and how lucky he and his friends were to be born in a peaceful country.

Marco Sch, Germany

2017-04-07 15:46:07 UTC

In Germany, there are numerous organisations and institutions which can assist teachers in inviting people with a migration background to their classes in order to talk about their experience, e.g. local refugee councils, alien offices, asylum seekers’ hostels, but also local intercultural clubs and initiatives. However, I have always refrained from inviting external partners for various reasons: I’m a little afraid of my students asking the people insensitive questions, I don’t want to be overtly manipulative yet I know that some of my students are not as open-minded – how will they react to the situation?, Activities like that are not funded – where does the money come from? I know these are silly questions but I sometimes feel that the (institutional) restrictions in German education can be rather harsh.

Nora, Italy

noraroxane — 2017-04-08 03:30:10 UTC

in my school foreign students were born in Italy and they are now fully integrated. I think the issue is raised in the primary school: sooner or later we must think of a training plan for teachers, because I think it is very difficult to teach Italian in a mixed class.

Livia, Italy

liviacentonze_lc — 2017-04-08 12:03:11 UTC

I think that bringing newly arrived migrants into our classrooms is a great experience. I should integrate the student thanks to cooperative activities.

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In my opinion, the school where I work provides an high level of information about refugees. Every year

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Yuri,Italy

yurisab — 2017-04-08 12:13:54 UTC

Bringing an immigrated person in a class Can be a success and Can also help to reduce the prejudices the students have towards these people. Nevertheless it's important to agree about the questions so that both the immigrant and the children can feel comfortable

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In my opinion, the school where I work provides an high level of information about refugees. Every year a team of colleagues of mine organizes a

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In my opinion, the school where I work provides an high level of information about refugees. Every year a team of colleagues of mine organizes a meeting

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In my opinion, the school where I work provides an high level of information about refugees. Every year a team of colleagues of mine organizes a meeting between a certain number of external stakeholders engaged

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Angeliki, Greece-Thessaloniki

antzela12345 — 2017-04-08 12:15:33 UTC

To be honest I never thought of inviting a newly arrived migrant into my classroom because as I said in the previous task I was a little bit afraid of discussing such issues with my students either due to my lack of knowledge and other technical issues of my teaching lesson or due to the lack of interest of my students.
However, now, by studying intercultural education, participating in seminars like this and events organised by UNHCR, UNESCO or other communities, I think that I am in the position to engage with real refugees and invite them into my classroom with support, of course. Nevertheless it is not an easy way to familiarise students with refugees. Although with a good preparation (e.g. first learning about their origins, preparing a questionaire with suitable and informative questions etc.) would be the best way to raise childrens' awareness of any other way. In order to manage this, it is essential to have their parents' support, your colleagues' support and your external partners' support ( e.g. a non governmental organisation like METAdrasi I am already member). Especially nowadays in Greece, the climate about the educational participation of refugees in our schools is rather hostile. Parents due to their ignorance, they are afraid of refugee children (diseases, violence etc.). So if we want to make a step forward and our students become aware of refugees, we should first educate adults by bringing a newly arrived migrant into their houses in a metaphorical meaning, of course!

Sanja, Croatia

2017-04-08 20:45:40 UTC

I'll try with Welcome to Europe on Facebook!

Chiara Semplicini, Italy

chiara_semplicini — 2017-04-09 08:53:22 UTC

I did not know the website Welcome to Europe. I have had a brief look at it and I got the impression it contains a lot of useful information for students to deeply understand immigration policies, journeys, etc. I have never brought a newly arrived immigrants in my class, or at least not a refugee, but I think that allowing students to better comprehend the history of single refugees is a good way to start. That is, students need to understand the reasons behind immigration, especially those leading people leave their country in search of asylum. To address this topic in schools is important also to avoid xenophobic feeling and reactions, which unfortunately are very frequent in Italy.

In our school we have economic migrants rather than refugees. I hope that our pupils & parents can challenge prejudices about the migrants when they hear people talking about the perceived negative impact such people have in our town. It is always useful to have an individual in mind rather than talk about 'migrants' as an entity.

kcorr365 — 2017-04-09 10:21:29 UTC

Alessandra Gallina

scrocchia67 — 2017-04-09 14:46:51 UTC

2.2 Finding External Partners

In our school we have boys and girls who are sons and daughters of economic migrants and they generally speak about their experience from the mother country to here without any particular problem. When asked about what they left behind them, they tell us about their friends and how it would be fine to meet them again in a short time. As regards refugees we still haven't met some of these people at school, because as I've already said it isn't easy to convince an unknown boy or girl to talk about his/her past experience. Anyway I'm thinking about this particular meeting with the class and I'll try to find out the right way to introduce someone who is witness of the wars going on now in the world.

Paola,Italy

paolcro — 2017-04-09 16:28:32 UTC

In my class there are kids from different countries of the world with which we have often discussed the difficulties had to settle in a different culture. Unlike the case of refugees. It would be interesting to be able to welcome in the classroom of children who have lived this experience and tell their story, but I fear it is difficult for several reasons: first of all for the educational bureaucracy. The idale would present a project to the head teacher, but times are long.

Yakup, Turkey

yakupbuyukkaragoz — 2017-04-09 17:06:32 UTC

Bringing migrants is very useful idea. But how we find right migrant and how we to get permission from official outherities? On the other hand, we can'tBecause both immigrants and students get contact each other directly.main question is how we know how the pupils behave the migrants? We should try to that experience in the classroom.

Maura, Italy

mauraccia — 2017-04-09 18:39:35 UTC

I strongly agree that meeting the real people behind labels is the best way to destroy preassumptions. In Italy (as one could easily have guessed) there isn't a national teachers network on this matter, either... As far as getting to know newly arrived migrants is concerned, immigrant children are often put into our classes, so it's quite a natural process. Welcoming refugees is a bit harder (as I have already written , there are about twenty refugees, amongst other immigrants, living in the center of my town, so we daily see them) since they are all young men, but there are a lot of organization (especially church ones, like caritas...) which can easily be of support. Of course, every activity must be carefully planned... And during workshops even immigrant students quite spontaneously bring up memories from their families (for instance, the father that, just arrived in Italy, in 2000, was used to look into bins to find food...). I wouldn't be worried about hostile reactions toward the guest, because it's really hard to attack somebody looking into his eyes, especially when your teacher is there... What happens outside the school or waht is said in their families is another matter...

Rosa Medeiros, Portugal

rosa_medeiros1 — 2017-04-09 19:54:11 UTC

We may not live a situation but have empathy and be critical of the recipient. Building an opinion helps to act in similar situations. . Comparing with migrant relatives helps to understand the importance of integrating everyone in society.
A good activity is write to a family member or make a videoconference with a familiar emigre and listen to how your entry into the foreign country was. Ask what went well and went wrong. Know how they wish it had happened ..

MARINA,ITALY

marinademma — 2017-04-09 22:02:38 UTC

Chiara, Rome

carusochiara — 2017-04-10 07:56:57 UTC

In my school there are no refugees or migrants but there are students with particular and different family problems and situations. Anyway, it is important to inform them and give them the oppurtunity to reflect thanks to some real experiences. Oral discussion can be supported by a final written activity ( a power point, an essay, a quiz).

Fausto, Catania

2017-04-10 15:56:35 UTC

Graziella. Italy

2017-04-10 16:19:39 UTC

I didn't know this website. There are a lot of information in order to help migrants.

Rosa L. - Italy

2017-04-10 17:09:30 UTC

Living and teaching in Rome I can find a lot of organizations available to bring newly arrived migrants in my classes (for example "Centro Astalli"). If it couldn’t be possible, I think that another way to develop empathy in our students is to propose them an interview of a migrant or to read some pages of an autobiographic book. For example, I read to my students with success the book “Io sono con te. Storia di Brigitte” by Melania Mazzucco.

Andreea, Sweden

2017-04-11 07:45:04 UTC

I am a mother tongue teacher so I speak with my pupils about the actual situation on their mother tongue so they understand better the facts about refugees. Otherwise, my pupils study in schools there the majority has migrant/refugee background. In this case, my pupils have daily contact with newly arrived children and the teachers working with newly arrived try to integrate these pupils in the classroom.

Pedro, Portugal

2017-04-11 18:47:37 UTC

Our district - Setúbal, with several active communities of migrants, is the third one with more immigrants in the country. In our schools we have many classes with multicultural characteristics, but the necessary awareness and acceptance of the other, does not always occur.

Although, the municipality and some associations give them some support, especially in the integration of communities at professional and adult level, however, this important work does not always have results at school level.

It’s a fact that a visitor in the classroom, brings a great pedagogic value (It's a break from your teaching; Students have the opportunity to learn something new; With students; Parents love participating in their kid's class; there are important lessons to learn; it's just fun). In my school, we always try to promote these encounters. We also try to show that racial and socioeconomic diversity in the classroom can provide to the students a range of cognitive and social benefits and it’s possible to take full advantage of this potential.

It is difficult to find people dealing with the subject of refugees in the classroom, especially at the level of pedagogical field, but I think starting with a lived testimony, can trigger some classroom activities and that may be a good option.

A cultural meeting, with gastronomy, arts, etc., also seems to me a good activity!

Foteini-Vassiliki (Vani) , Greece

2017-04-12 07:48:54 UTC

My concerns are:
1. My colleagues and the headteacher (because many of them are xenophobic). I need their approval for bringing a refugee into my classroom.
2. The parents (a large number of them have a negative stance towrads refugees and may claim that their child's educational needs should be prioritized differently).

Claudia, Italy

2017-04-12 07:52:31 UTC

FINDING EXTERNAL PARTNERS
http://www.w2eu.info/
http://www.ecre.org/
I am definitely going to visit both websites, looking for information on how to find external partners. I think bringing a migrant into the classroom would have a strong and positive impact on the students and I think it would be great if this particular migrant were a teacher or someone trained to talk to people and raise awareness

Muriel, Belgium

murielgoffin — 2017-04-12 14:40:43 UTC

Before inviting a newly arrived migrant in the classroom, I think it is important to develop the empathy of the students (in order to avoid negative reactions as much as possible) and to inform them with facts and testimonials about the situation of these migrants in Belgium.
It would be quite easy to organise as I used to work in a school in Brussels but getting the authorisation to invite someone who is not directly related to education in a school is always a bit tricky and I would have to bypass all the prejudices of kids, colleagues, school management and parents who might be worried about having someone who is not part of the staff inside the school.

Vasilis, Greece

vstauropoulos — 2017-04-12 18:20:52 UTC

In my opinion, it is not so easy to bring an immigrant in a Greek classroom. Firstly, you have to ask your headteacher or even someone higher, to approve the invitation, in order to be legal. Then, you have to prepare your students and their families to accept the fact, against some prejudices. Moreover, the teacher have to prepare the workshop, finding the NGO, which will arbitrate to contact with the immigrant, who will want to come to school, knowing the English language, or following by an interpreter. Finally, the teacher must prepare the frame of the workshop, in a way of an interview...

Maria, Greece

mampla78 — 2017-04-12 19:00:57 UTC

As my colleagues from Greece claim, bringing a migrant into school is a difficult task. Headmaster and colleagues must agree, consultants of education have to give permission, but parents might oppose against it. So, we have to discuss with them a lot, and of course need support from state and NGOs to provide an interpreter for example.

BURCU YÖRÜK

burcu_yoruk_00 — 2017-04-12 19:32:16 UTC

TURKEY
In Turkey, immigrant students may begin their education in suitable schools for the after solving their language problems.

burcu yörük

burcu_yoruk_00 — 2017-04-12 19:37:25 UTC

turkey
In Turkey, immigrant students may begin their education in suitable schools for the after solving their language problems.

CHRISTOS, GREECE

christos_chachoudis — 2017-04-12 20:53:41 UTC

HAVING MIGRANT STUDENTS IN SCHOOL IT'S A DIFFICULT WORK BUT WITH THE RIGHT COLLEAGUES AND THE RIGHT BEHAVIOR WE CAN MANAGE A LOT. IN GREECE WE DON'T HAVE A STATE THAT CAN INFORM AND GIVE GUIDANCE ABOUT THE ISSUES WE NEED BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE'S ACTIVITIES THAT HELPS. THAT'S THE MEAN OF HUMANISM. EVERYONE HERE IN MY COUNTRY TRIES TO HELP...

Moschoula,Hellas

mcdouris — 2017-04-13 07:10:24 UTC

It is difficult in my country to bring someone in school. It requires paperwork from the Resonsible Advisor, from the fellow teachers, from the Head of the School and from the Supervising Ministry Authorities.
Despite all that I called migrants from Skaramagas camp to come, but it was not easy and needed time. Instead a person from the Migrant School of Pireas, one of the founders of Skaramagas Hope School came and the result was magical. My students were paying so much attention to his words and they had so much interest for his communication with the young children in the camps. I was amazed and gladly would repeat such an attempt.

Elisabete Fiel, Portugal

fiel_elisabete — 2017-04-13 16:08:03 UTC

I do not have refugees in my classes. But we have already done some activities to understand what these people are going through in their lives.
In geography classes, we talk about the current state of the world. I have some immigrant students, which is a different statute, but we have debated much the phenomenon of loss of the culture of origin: the language and the traditions.

Solange Delicado, Portugal

sdelicado — 2017-04-13 17:48:46 UTC

I haven't yet invited a newlly arrived migrant or a regugee into my classroom but I am really thinking about it. As I told you about, there is a young girl from Iracq who is attending another school here in Setúbal and I am thinking about inviting her to come and talk about her experience. I also have a friend who does volunteer work in a Refugee Camp from UNHCR GREECE, I think it will be interesting for my students to know that there are people who leave the conforto f their homes to help people in need. The Refugee Platform http://www.refugiados.pt/home-en/ can also be a good help if I would like to bring a newlly arrived migrant into my classroom .

Rosa, Italy

2017-04-14 05:32:16 UTC

I had classes with newly arrived migrants and they helped me to face topics about refugees. Two of them are still in Lamezia Terme, one is working in a restaurant, the other is studying in a high school and I sometimes ask them to come at school to tell their stories and it is always very involving for my students.

Roberta - Italy

condomittir — 2017-04-14 08:37:52 UTC

I never have had or invted migrats in my classroom. Sincerly I had never thought about it perhaps because my students are little, perhaps there has never ben a specific motive
to do it.
I imagine nevertheless that school rules can make difficult to do it because headmasters, collegues and parents must take their authorization.
This problem can be resolved with tecnological sistem like web, Skype and other instrument.

Guen, Turin

guendalinah — 2017-04-14 14:07:01 UTC

I never had refugees in my classes but I would like to be able to do it, even tought school rules could make it difficult. I think it's very important for students of any age to understand other people's needs. I had newly arrived migrants and that was very helpful for me because I was able to understand how kids deal with migration.

Loredana, Italy

2017-04-14 16:24:50 UTC

FINDING EXTERNAL PARTNERS have just invited newly arrived migrants in my school at Bassano Romano to take part to our Cultural Exchange we are sharing with a Dutch school about the phenomenon of migration. I could enter into contact with them thanks to the local organizations like Arci, for example, that work for their inclusion.

Daniele - Italy

danvir — 2017-04-15 18:52:14 UTC

What are your main questions and concerns about bringing newly arrived migrants into our classrooms?
I've never brought in my classes newly arrived migrants, but here I have found many useful informations.
First of all, as I have read in some of my colleagues' posts, we have to prepare our students working on empathy and getting them informed before the meeting. It's strongly important to ensure a positive acceptance from the pupils.
In Italy it is quite difficult to organize such lessons, because we must have the approval from school management and sometimes there are lots of papers to fill. But we can also organize a skype meeting, who does not need any permission.
In Italy probably if you live in small cities or towns if you want to get in touch with the migrants the easiest thing is to ask to a parish or to any charitative or church organization. This should be more simple then asking to great NGOs, whose offices are usually in big cities.

Ekaterini, Poland

katerinaki62 — 2017-04-16 13:55:37 UTC

The main principal to have both sides work together in peace and friendship is first to prepare our students to be hosts. If the feel as if they admit the guests at their homes , they will try todo everything to make newly arrived people feel at home. So as teachers, we should inflict in our students empathy, listening skill, curiosity, and we should always praise them for their help.

Eleni, Switzerland

eleni_mousena — 2017-04-17 11:50:15 UTC

I believe that it would be as difficult as it is in Greece (in a Greek classroom) to bring a newly arrived immigrant in a Swiss classroom because of the bureaucracy and the teachers' , parents' and students' prejudice.
http://w2eu.info/switzerland.en/articles/switzerland-contacts.en.html

Konstantina, Greece

2017-04-17 12:02:00 UTC

Absolutely if you have external support is very important. I also liked Erika’s idea about communicating with other schools. Through collaboration many ideas can be creative and more easily realized.

Niki, Greece

nikialexakou — 2017-04-17 13:01:19 UTC

Here in Greece, it is quite difficult to bring anyone in the classroom, even a parent to talk to the students, because of the bureaucracy involved. However, I would try it as I believe it would be really useful and effective as long as the class is well prepared for it.

Maria Grazia G. (Italy)

mariagrazia_caltanissetta — 2017-04-17 16:00:25 UTC

I never had refugees in my classes

Zoi, Greece

zetakoli — 2017-04-17 17:33:58 UTC

The only concern for me is the way that a newly arrived migrant comes into the classroom. Because, the kindergarten's classroom seems "open" but at the same time has the restrictions of the students' age. So, it must be well organised and the children could adress their questions directly to the newly arrived migrant.

Arvin

2017-04-17 20:22:33 UTC

I usually get in contact with local associations that work with migrants to invite some of the to the classes.

Sanja, Croatia

2017-04-18 16:20:25 UTC

I'm on my own, so i'll try with Welcome to Europe on Facebook...

Graziella, Lamezia Terme (Italy)

2017-04-18 21:56:24 UTC

If you have an external support is an excellent idea. In this way, students will have the opportunity to learn the stories of refugees and ask questions.

Giovanna,Italy.

2017-04-19 06:16:32 UTC

There are free associations in my region that give support to the new migrants. They help them to find structures where to stay and giving them the opportunity to work.

Linda Carlos Ruiz

2017-04-19 08:25:23 UTC

Bringing refugees into your classroom in an excellent way to influence the students and make them understand better and also develop their empathy. It is not at all difficult, there are lots of organizations you can contact if you are interested in an activity like this.

Marika Emese Cîmpean

cimpean_emese — 2017-04-19 15:03:51 UTC

We do not have migrants, but we implement a project on this topic, so we collaborate with schools that have. This is why I appreciated the idea of collaborating.

Lara, Rome Italy

2017-04-19 16:22:25 UTC

We have many migrants in our school. We have contacts with the families first and we ask for hepl to cultural mediators. they can be a very good resource to work with children but also the families themselves. We have an african artist taking workshops with the classes.But not refugees.This would be very interesting

Ourania, Greece

ranialampou — 2017-04-19 20:03:33 UTC

There are some important organizations that provide help to the refugees and migrants.

Rita(Italy)

2017-04-19 20:30:50 UTC

It's not so easy. There are assciations but schools can be such a good vehicle to make refugees children feel understoo

Angela, Italy

2017-04-19 21:17:08 UTC

2.2 Finding External Partners

In our schools there are migrant children who have different stories of migration to tell. These people receive assistance from various facilities including the school.

Rosa, Italy Certainly the presence of immigrants in the classes is the source of programming individualized jobs or specific activities. However, effective strategies and methodologies have to be obtained, such as using images, vocabularies at the Lim

2017-04-19 21:33:20 UTC

Marialuisa, Brindisi

2017-04-22 17:15:51 UTC

It's not so easy. There are assciations but schools can be such a good vehicle to make refugees children feel understoo