Meeting the needs of newly arrived migrant students by Teacher Academy

Simona, Italy

2016-11-28 14:15:14 UTC

Interesting!

Molto interessante

2016-11-28 14:58:26 UTC

Iuliana

2016-11-28 15:01:30 UTC

Emotional...

Afroditi,Greece

2016-11-28 15:10:23 UTC

Very hopeful videos

Pre-primary school children

2016-11-28 15:24:35 UTC

I'm a pre-primary school teacher, I feel that my students need being guided and appreciated in their effort of understanding school skills. Every 3-4-5 years child is at his first experience of school and needs a pleasant school, where he can learn with his rhythm the rules of language, cleanliness, social life, feeling not more ignorant or slower then other children, but important and precious like everyone else.

Interesting.

nikos_2803 — 2016-11-28 15:28:32 UTC

Marianthi Arvanitidou - Greece

1canislupus22 — 2016-11-28 15:40:31 UTC

very very interesting

Angelo, Rivoli, Italy

Angelo — 2016-11-28 15:49:03 UTC

On the first videos I can make a comment using the thought of Bernard Lonergan: the guys just immigrants are a proof of The Unrestricted Desire to Know that often our privileged students have lost.
Of the second video I really appreciate the projectuality, which in Italy I still do not see, apart from the extraordinary efforts of welcome and rescue.

2016-11-28 15:55:27 UTC

Hi, I'm Adriana. I am a teacher of technical subjects in an Institute of Higher Education. In my classes, since they are in Messina, there are many foreign students, even those with the barges arrived from Africa

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2016-11-28 16:19:46 UTC

have found the video really interesting and optimistic. It is very basic for children to be accepted by their schoolmates.

Evi Karella-Greece

spevispevi — 2016-11-28 16:21:48 UTC

I am a kindergarten teacher from Greece. I still don't have migrants in my school, but I think I will in the near future. So I want to learn as much as I can about their needs and all the possible ways I can use in order to help them feel secure and happy.

antonella-Italy

antonellacaprarelli — 2016-11-28 16:31:19 UTC

I think they want to be accepted so creating a warm climate is very important, at the same way learning the language to get gradually integrated and feel more self confident.

Marina

2016-11-28 16:36:59 UTC

I find interesting what the first teacher says about to learn basic skills for some refugees and especially when she talks about a network of people in her school, her district and the whole community which can help her to give pratical things to the refugee or his\her family might need (f.ex clothes for winter). I'm asking: does it exist in my school? No but because it needs a great organization and cooperation. Perhaps it'll change .....

Cinzia,Italy

2016-11-28 16:43:30 UTC

Very interesting

I teach in a secondary school. In my school there are a lot of migrant and we are working for their integration. I have found the video really interesting and optimistic. It is very basic for children to be accepted by their schoolmates.

rosadilonardo — 2016-11-28 16:46:25 UTC

Chiara A.

2016-11-28 16:49:57 UTC

I really hope in an Italian school is able to promote these programs.

S.O.S. We need support!

personeni_sara — 2016-11-28 16:52:48 UTC

I feel Italian teachers must be much more supported in addressing these students' needs, with a strong network to community organizations and by turning to external consultants, such as interpreters. The lack of this support, often, can thwart the efforts of one teacher. Integrating these students by oneself can be annoying and inadequate. An. in my view, also the help of other collegues is not enough, even if it's something.

Pietra, Italy

2016-11-28 17:12:57 UTC

This video is very intereting, but inmy class there aren't migrant students.

In the second video, it is moving that migrants students, after having gone so through hard experiences, have projects about their future: it means that a good school integration can be successful

bibfermi — 2016-11-28 17:17:52 UTC

Nikos ,Greece

nickefthymiou — 2016-11-28 17:18:32 UTC

I think new students, need a multi level support . Healing their traumas , Linguistic support , encouragement, stimulating self confidence.

I'd really like to have a similar programme in Italy. It's so important for those students. It's not always possible to teach to newly arrived migrant students who don't know the language at all when you have other 24 students to teach to ...

alessandra_marini1 — 2016-11-28 17:36:22 UTC

Federica from Italy

2016-11-28 17:38:47 UTC

Now in Itay many young refugees have the opportunities to enter into a professional school, to do a stage or to achieve a job.

Angelina Alberico, Italy

2016-11-28 17:42:02 UTC

The needs of newly arrived migrant students are manifold and therefore need various media including the psychological, emotional, linguistic and economic. All this will be possible only if it makes a good school integration.

Dimitris Gr

2016-11-28 17:44:06 UTC

Very interesting video.

I've never had refugees in my classrooms. However, I think it's essential to let them feel accepted and integrated. That's why there should be projects aimed at supporting them with the language and integration in the hosting country. The psychological support is even more essential as first of all they need to face their trauma, that might condition their life for ever.

mec972 — 2016-11-28 17:55:59 UTC

Sasa, Greece

2016-11-28 18:03:22 UTC

Refugees, need to feel safe and accepted from classmates, teachers and all the people who work at school.

Ornella Millerba

2016-11-28 18:13:45 UTC

If I heart Mexico I think to a bridge mo to a wall!

Claudia dC

2016-11-28 19:01:48 UTC

I never had migrant students, but I can imagine it is very difficult and delicate to take them so that they can feel to be really accepted. I can imagine the principal problem is in using different languages. Without a way for communication, every other support is prevented.

Marialuisa

2016-11-28 19:22:22 UTC

I hope to be able to sweep both as subjects than as cues

Ilaria, Sardinia

2016-11-28 19:24:26 UTC

I had experiences with people that did not know any word in italian, if you start using their language you can see their face change and begin a base for to know them, for a relation of trust.

Alina Popa Romania

2016-11-28 19:31:14 UTC

never in contact with a refigees , but It is the same as when you get in a new country without knowing any word of language. So strange and embarasing. regarding refigees there are more intense sensitives, and a delicate way to behave. Warm and kind is the first way to create a liason and then to start the hard problem of integration in the national rules.

Margherita Italy

2016-11-28 19:45:00 UTC

Margherita Italy

2016-11-28 19:45:05 UTC

Like Ilaria, I had experiences with students that didn't know any word in italian and with students that have had a trauma in their country. They are in Italy without their parents, adopted in new families.

Christina, Greece

crest_lou — 2016-11-28 19:45:41 UTC

I notice that refugees students need simultaneously an attractive school environment, people who really care about them and a supportive society in order to transcend their experiences and take part in their new (educational) life.

Toni's opinion. I believe to learn basic skills are essential for people coming from very poor countries. It's very important lo help them to appreciate something they don't know but it's normal for us.

2016-11-28 19:48:36 UTC

Eva, Greece

2016-11-28 20:08:38 UTC

In my school there are not, at least not for the time being, students who have not covered their basic needs. However, ee help all students in need, Greek or foreigners. I agree that basic needs have to be satisfied first along with psychological support. In my school and area we have no such chances. For the time being we only need language support, integrating classes for the greek language only since these kids can easily attend other classes and activities such as gymnastics, art etc. Nevertheless, there is need for organised integrating classes for those kids who have many new things to face and wounds to heal.

Dimitra, Belgium

2016-11-28 20:10:50 UTC

It is such a complicated and difficult situation with the newly arrived migrant students! Every student is a different and unique case, I think. These children need support at many levels: psychological, social, cognitive. Additionally to this, the lack of knowledge of the spoken language acts as a huge barrier which makes communication very difficult.

Canan/Turkey

2016-11-28 20:38:52 UTC

Refugees are experiencing a language problem and
fighting. They're alone.

They do'nt want to come to the school

Esma

gumusesma722 — 2016-11-28 20:45:26 UTC

Their main need is communication. We have a few refugee students. They are under stress because of the life that they lived before coming to Turkey. They came from a war area. They are now confused and dont know how to enter the school society. Thats why we should help them to
integrate the school life. Although they know our language, they are always silent and dont want to share their feelings with the others.

Helen, Italy

2016-11-28 20:55:05 UTC

Refugee children have enormous issues to deal with. Language is obviously a very important problem and needs to be addressed in a systematic way with extra courses and coaching throughout the school year and during the holidays. But the psychological needs are just as great and professional help should be provided within the school system. In Italy it is too often just the class or subject teacher doing his or her best but with no real support network.

Our refugee students live in a shelter that adresses their basic needs. At school I think they need a language support and a better integration system.

twinplazaki — 2016-11-28 20:56:27 UTC

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twinplazaki — 2016-11-28 20:56:31 UTC

Simona, Italy

2016-11-28 21:21:59 UTC

At school our foreign students need a better language teaching system. Language is the first means of integration. Then school, staff, teachers need to be in contact with specialised external structures of experts who may offer a psychologigal understanding of refugees' needs. Collaboration between education and experts is really important, but, as usual, money is missing....

Derya

2016-11-28 21:38:02 UTC

Language, outfit, school culture .. all change suddenly . The migrant students find themselves in totally a new environment

Magda, Greece

zervoum — 2016-11-28 21:51:39 UTC

My school hasn't yet received refugee children from the camps in Athens, but may soon do. I believe we will require a great deal of support in dealing with the language barrier, and definitely in making the children feel welcome, comfortable and safe.
Translators, psychologists, social workers, the school parents, they are all needed on this process.

Kristina_Vienna:

k_gugerbauer — 2016-11-28 21:51:41 UTC

I think there are many essential requirements for a successful start: - network of people, a buddy who helps him/her in the first month(s), a language course, a psychologist, a social worker, former refugees, etc. = a structure, a frame, that supports them!

MARIA SIOMPOTI

2016-11-29 07:13:16 UTC

The bacic needs have to be covered , but the feeling of "belonging" has to be achieved time by time. Specialists do a great work , but the point is to reduce the trauma of war or the loss of their family.

Joserra-Spain.

2016-11-29 07:22:01 UTC

Most of the migrant students coming to our school hardly know the native language. But that is not the only need to deal with. Many cultural aspects have to be taken into account. That is why we need not only teachers but also social workers, non profits organization,etc to work with these people in order to success in their integration

Serdar Turkey

2016-11-29 07:47:41 UTC

Ive never thought that the sportive and cultural activies could help so much

fresh start

kalliopiperri — 2016-11-29 08:05:50 UTC

The second video made me think of all the awful situations these young people had to face and I think that the most important thing is for the newcomers to feel safe and human. They need to express themselves, let the anger, frustration, fear and all negative feelings come out.Getting involved in art activities (music, theatre, dance) and sports can be of great help.

Filippo Italy I think one of the primary needs in school for migrants is to have a basic course of their new country language. So integration is made easier

2016-11-29 08:09:57 UTC

GAIA, Italy

gaialombardi69 — 2016-11-29 09:02:44 UTC

I think that newly arrived children need, at first, to feel safe, protected, respected and "human" again. The school must let them felle to be in "a place good for them".
Then, they need to start learning the language of their new country.
Finally, they need to discover how their culture can be similar or different from the culture and traditions of the new country.

Ana

anaznidarec — 2016-11-29 09:36:23 UTC

Yes - needs are different, but dealing with different layers of trauma is common thing.

My romanian student was silent, maybe he was feeling angry, anxious, far from his world. for the first time I didn't know what to do... I thought only to offer him protection.

rossellabattafarano — 2016-11-29 10:22:57 UTC

Elena FP, Italy

2016-11-29 10:38:37 UTC

I had some experience with newly arrived immigrants when I was a Primary School teacher. I had pupils coming here from India for example, speaking no Italian and knowing nothing about our country. The first step towards integration was providing them a basic language course and involving them in group activities in which they could show their skills to their peers and get to know them informally, even without knowing Italian (let's say, games and sports, music, drawing). This way, they started to feel part of the group and started to learn the basics of communication even without actually studying them. They usually felt welcomed by their peers and this surely has contributed to their integration.

Simona S. Italy

2016-11-29 10:47:18 UTC

In my opinion newly arrived migrants' needs are very different but the most important one is peace. Moreover, they need frienship and integration.

Lila Z

2016-11-29 10:48:05 UTC

It is amazing to see how many things have done other countries and schools about migrants. We have many things to learn.

Simona S.

2016-11-29 10:50:36 UTC

It is very important integrating newly arrived migrants in Italian School. In this way they can share their experiences, way of life, thinking and viewing with their peers and theachers.

Xanthi

xalbanaki — 2016-11-29 11:09:51 UTC

I m a teacher in Secondary Education. I have worked many years in multicultural schools in my country.

I think it is very important for immigrants to provide a full-service corporate language. After all, languages play a decisive role in the transmission of knowledge. Multilingualism is a chance and gives us the opportunity to approach a larger number of people.

eratocar1 — 2016-11-29 11:54:21 UTC

I haven't had any experience with refugee students in my class, yet, but it's only a matter of time, as the school i work in is very close to two refugee camps. I am sure that we will have to deal with students with different schooling backgrounds, lack of basic life skills, or even lack of basic necessities, and most importantly students that have experienced trauma. I believe that refugee children and the school itself will need a network of people and/or institutions willing to support them.

Carol (Italy)

carol_f — 2016-11-29 12:10:04 UTC

School is very significant for newly arrived migrant students. It’s a microcosm, a small society which can provide them the best inclusion. It’s is the best context to meet their needs. In my school we organize laboratory activities for local and migrant students.

It^s not a secret for every experienced teacher that education is a providing activity of teenagers and the success in this field plays a vital role. That^s why we should do all the best to create comfortable conditions for studying. If we have a newly arrived student in the classroom, we are manages to organise some kinds of warming up activities to help him or her to join the community. It can be made throught mini-projects. the atmosphere will be positive and only through activities and common work student can get along with each other. If the newly arrived student doesn`t have enoug knowledge, the taks of the teacher is to help him to overcome these difficulties. It`s a wise way to create a contact with the students.

rosavitskaya94 — 2016-11-29 12:50:28 UTC

Danuta, Pl

user_1412625417 — 2016-11-29 14:35:48 UTC

As I don't have migrant students, I wrote down in my dairy Healing programs. Soccer is an obvious choice. Now I think that Capoeira and drumming may also be very attractive and efficient.

Laura,Italy

pagnozzi_laura — 2016-11-29 15:45:37 UTC

From my experiences with pupils migrated I can say that the great difficulties encountered in the language. cmprendono not the lesson in class and there is often need support to help them understand the words, it is the teacher in the classroom for pupils with BES, both with the help of other students in the practical part.
They have no money to buy books, and to buy equipment for the school,
but they are full of will. I think that the practical activities to help them more to fit into the class.

In my opinion at first it is essential for these students to feel safe, and respected. The environment should help them behave and feel like children once again. Following that, it might be helpful to emphasize in skills that would help them in their everyday life, such as learning the language of the welcoming country. Of course psychological support is necessary, since most of these children have inevitably faced traumatic experiences.

natdrak — 2016-11-29 16:22:37 UTC

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

soleemare_a — 2016-11-29 17:32:53 UTC

I teach English as a Foreign Language at a Technical Secondary School in the South of Italy. There aren’t newly arrived migrants in my classes but some students of foreign origins. They are second generation migrants because children of immigrants, so they are already integrated in their classrooms. However, in the past I experienced the coming of newly arrived migrants in a classroom and I noticed two basic needs. The first are related to language support and the second to be in a foreign place. There wasn’t a cultural mediator in the school, so I decided to use English to address their linguistic needs as they can speak English quite well.
It was more difficult to meet their basic needs because fleeing their home country was a situation often related to the experience of losing loved-ones. All the school community tried to make those students feeling at home.

Meeting the needs of newly arrived migrant students for the school

2016-11-29 17:38:24 UTC

They are in need of teaching them firstly the basic and school skills and then the academic skills to get used to the school environment. For achieving our goals, we must try to connect with society and community organizations.

Clara, Portugal

acjesus — 2016-11-29 17:46:12 UTC

I do not have newly arrived migrant students but I have had students from other countries that do not communicate in Portuguese. Based on my experience, I believe that the most important thing for students (and families) is the need to overcome the language barrier. After this "big step" is given, everything else will be more easily surpassed.

M.Cristina Cau, Italy

prof_cau — 2016-11-29 17:56:57 UTC

Often I had classes composed of foreign students with a traumatic history, a series of suffering, to escape from the war, forced removal from the family. They need to be heard and for this you have to understand and be understood by studying our language. Their needs are material but above all must be followed by competent staff.

Vicky Archondi, Greece

vicky_archondi — 2016-11-29 18:05:26 UTC

I have no encounter with newly arrived immigrants yet so I can only hypothesize on what I should first cater for. I believe that the language barrier should be overcome as soon as possible that's why I intend to resort to an interpreter. Then I will definitely try to equip them with the basic skills and finally with the academic ones. For the basic skills I will definitely ask for the community's help.

Alex_PT

teacheralex_dua — 2016-11-29 18:27:44 UTC

I haven’t had newly arrived migrant students, but I’ve had students in my class coming from African or eastern European countries for whom language is the most difficult obstacle to overcome – when at school, either in classes or during recess, they find it so difficult to communicate that I believe that the first requirement is to address their need of language support. When they are more comfortable with language, they will not only integrate better but will also be able to share their worries so that trauma issues can be addressed.

I found Amber’s description almost unbelievable. To meet those specific, basic needs there has to be a coordination of services – from social assistants, interpreters, psychologists…

Salva, Spain

salprosm1 — 2016-11-29 18:43:22 UTC

I work with students from Morocco. The main reason why they are in my country is because the living conditions are better in my country. I have observed throughout my years of experience that they value the education they receive even more than the students born in my country. Generally the teaching is directed to that they adapt to my culture and are very few the activities that we do so that they teach us their own culture.

Martha, Greece

2016-11-29 19:22:35 UTC

I don't have any newly arrived migrant students but I strongly agree with Amber that as teachers we should be prepared and willing to meet our students' needs either they have to do with academical or basic life skills. For that reason it is very helpful and crucial to establish a network of people who can help, such as other pupils' parents, the community organizations, the headmaster of the school end anybody who is sensitive to this issue.

What the refugee students need

gefthym — 2016-11-29 19:34:00 UTC

... is our attention, I believe. First we should establish a safe environment for them and unroll confidence relationships between us. Include them in the school community. I won't teach refugee children, because I' m Refugee Education Coordinator, but I will be next to the teachers and support them. Besides I am every day in the Accommodation Site where these children live, so I have the opportunity to observe them in their environment. I believe that it won't be easy for the beginning, but we will find a way to meet the educational and emotional needs of these children. Of course very important is to create a supporting network with everybody who could be involved in this.

The disappearance of the familiar

lenuta_chis — 2016-11-29 20:12:59 UTC

The disappearance of the familiar environment is a trauma for every person, regardless of age. This is the main problem of immigrant students. School is essential, first it, for these students to feel safe, and respected.

antonio p. north Italy

2016-11-29 20:40:19 UTC

i have never spoken with my students of the reasons that pushed them to escape from their land tocome in Italy

Students need language support,school skills, to be heard ,to be part of a peer group.

goli291174 — 2016-11-29 21:04:35 UTC

Marzia, Italy

marziaviola76 — 2016-11-29 21:17:59 UTC

Once I asked my migrant students what had helped them feel integrated. they answered me: learning the language, the attention of teachers and making friends with their classmates. The best thing is when school continues outside...with real life experiences and relationships.

Things are realy different between countries. I've been working with foreign (and also migrant) students for many years, but I've never seen anything like what Amber reports. I believe that, in these cases, school will have to work in partnership with the social assistance. However, I have had a few cases where the pupils' school skills were very different from those needed to attend school and didn´t know, for example, how to answer multiple choice questions, even if the language was not the problem. According to my experience, the main barrier is language, a factor that is even more difficult when there is no language of communication or an interpreter between the teacher and the student. That is why the language teacher plays such an important role, since it can be the fundamental element for the integration of students in school.

toliv2 — 2016-11-29 23:10:43 UTC

Marilena, Greece

marathan2 — 2016-11-30 06:43:19 UTC

I think the main need is language support. Without that, everything else can’t be addressed. For the moment there are 4 refugees in my school and they are split by pairs and put in different classrooms as listeners. They don’t actually participate, because they don’t know the language, they don’t have books (apart from the standard textbooks which are in Greek), etc. These students should all be together in a different class, with a different structure and timetable, designed specifically for their needs and focusing firstly in the learning of the language. Unfortunately, in my country the school system is not yet as organized and in such a degree, in order to cover the needs of all these students. There is an effort being made to that direction, but it’s very low-scale for the moment.

Eleonora

eleonora_mauriello19 — 2016-11-30 07:46:13 UTC

I think basic needs are as important as the new language to learn, it's something we sometimes give for granted, but this kind of differences can really be a problem.

2016-11-30 11:14:09 UTC

I think basic needs are as important as the new language to learn, it's something we sometimes give for granted, but this kind of differences can really be a problem.

both basic and school skills are very important in order to integrate anyone in the daily basis program, and i think that learning them in a fun, interactive way may be the best solution.

ioana_macra — 2016-11-30 13:33:22 UTC

I haven't newly arrived migrants in my school but I keep in touch with a no profit association called "Ujaama" that takes care of them, here in Italy. I know that when they arrive in a new country they are very afraid and need to be reassured and supported in their needs. They are often fleeing from wars and problems so they need clothes, food and a suitable accommodation. The above association with lots of good and smiling volunteers take them to shelters where can stay and slowly begin a new life. Mostly of the migrants are very young and they saw lots of ugly things in their countries. So they need to forget them and to think that it's possible have a happy future with the help of sincere friends and people who have really understood their stories, respect their cultures and want to know them. This association takes care of their elementary needs but also of their health because in here there are specialised doctors who can afford whatever problem they can have. In the end, the volunteers are interested in contacting schools to enroll students, support them and encourage their attitudes and likes.

sonia_galderisi — 2016-11-30 14:01:50 UTC

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sonia_galderisi — 2016-11-30 14:03:18 UTC

I nave newly arrived migrante in my primary school,

2016-11-30 14:11:27 UTC

I have migrants in my classroom and their problems are above all about different languages spoken at school and at home.

2016-11-30 14:21:45 UTC

Annalisa Beltramme

I believe that the main need of these people is to feel safe and for feeling safe they have to learn how to cope with every day life, practically first and then academically. Of cource language is basic key of communication in our civilazation so it's important to give them the chance to learn it. I don't have migrants but I have Roma and their common is that they meiss basic skills of everyday life. We meet their needs since they are comming systematically at school and giving them the chance to feel good with all others being part of our school community.

socratesstounos — 2016-11-30 15:36:49 UTC

Christina /Greece

The main need of the majority of the refugees students is to learn as quickly as possible the language of the country they settle in. I had a refugee student in the first class of a primary school although he was 14 years old. He could hardly understand greek at the beggining but he had a strong will to learn. So I prepared a fast learning program for the greek language and in a period of three months he attended the third grade.

psaridou — 2016-11-30 15:45:37 UTC

TURKEY

english_teacher16 — 2016-11-30 17:37:32 UTC

I'm a teacher at primary school.We have around 100 migrant students in our school this year.We are working for their integration.They need to feel accepted from their classmates and teachers.I think they need people who really care about them.Most of them are very silent in lessons and always want to hug their teachers.

One of the main problems the migrant students in my classes have, is that of language, but they also need to be integrated more in the real life outside schools. Teachers and educators take steps in order to help newcomers, but then the integrating process must be continued also in other life contexts.

r_gramenzi — 2016-11-30 17:43:23 UTC

peggy Greece

pegstefan — 2016-11-30 18:09:50 UTC

I have no migrants in my classroom but i suppose the language problem is the biggest one.. I teach in an upper secondary school...how is it possible to incorporate them at this level?
Of course psychological support is also very important..
Tolerance, respect, acceptance are the very first step..

Language and culture

lailabrocker2_1 — 2016-11-30 18:12:30 UTC

The language is of course a problem, but that is something everyone learns over time. The adaptation of cultural values can be more difficult.

Georgia Alexouda, Greece

alexouda — 2016-11-30 18:41:47 UTC

I don’t have refugees in my school. I think that language support can play a key role in solving their problems.

Meeting the needs of newly arrived migrant students

thekafkia — 2016-11-30 18:46:35 UTC

Although I do not at present have newly-arrived students in class I remember many years ago, when the first Albanian families were coming to Greece and their children starting school. It was more or less similar but not the same. I just tried to make them feel safe and accepted.
Having in mind Maslow's hierarchy of needs we need to cater first for the students' Physiological needs : hunger, clothes etc. The counter argument goes: this is not my jod - Yes, but see what the teacher in the first video does. Good for her and for us - to be inspired. Then the safety needs: make them feel protected from danger and meet their Belongingness and Love needs: affiliate with others, be accepted in the school community. I believ this is what the Australian teacher at STARTTS programme does. Then, enable them to feel they can achieve things to gain approval and recognition, meet the esteem needs. And then we deal with their cognitive dvelopment and move up the pyramid. On Maslow's hyerarchy on Needs:
https://www.learning-theories.com/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs.html

Adri

adisecheli — 2016-11-30 19:18:08 UTC

Romania
I think the main problem is to learn English language . Then , a newly arrived student need emotional support, need to discover by his own or with some help the tradition of the school be just arrived at

Giuseppina Serini,

2016-11-30 19:51:58 UTC

Giuseppina Serini, Italy

2016-11-30 19:52:00 UTC

I have not migrated any student in the class, but generally in Italy are placed in the classroom without any language skills and end up not understanding anything and not to express themselves. I find it very cruel catapulting the boys in class without giving them a way to communicate at least in an elementary way.

Bulgaria

kamiangelova — 2016-11-30 19:53:42 UTC

i think Thekla Kafka is is rights, saying that students must first have certainty that they are in a safe place that anyone would consider their needs and only then proceed to their cognitive development.

dotriv — 2016-11-30 19:56:56 UTC

There are not refugees in my school, but sometimes I have pupils from other countries. Only once I had problems in communicating with a child, because she didn't speak Italian, even if she was born in Italy. But she learnt the language in a very short time. (she was 4)

Konstantina, Greece I don't have newly arrived migrant students at my classroom, but in my opinion it is fundamental for them to feel safe and protected. In order to adress their needs we have to know them better, so to help them develop their abilities at school and at comunity.

2016-11-30 20:33:36 UTC

Antonietta, Italy

2016-11-30 20:42:31 UTC

In my school there are no newly arrived migrants but I think it's really hard for them to adapt to other scenarios and way of living as well as to other languages. So it's important for them to feel "at home".

Different migrant students all come with their diverse baggage and needs. For sure their sense of uprootedness and sense of loss should be addressed. Some of the students, who had to come to Malta with their parents are teenagers, and they are quite unhappy and angry that they had to leave their life to come here. Therefore they offer a lot of resistance to learn Maltese and English as they do not wish to have anything to do with their host country. Such students might need some form of therapy to come to terms with their particular loss. Students who have suffered trauma because of war and difficult journeys need a different sort of therapy. Then there are the language(s) barriers. In Malta they have to learn two languages - Maltese and English - as they are bothe used for teaching. Then they, together with their parents, also need to be integrated into the system. There might be various differences in the schooling routine such as lessons and duration of lessons, break etc.; how the school day is organised, what is expected of the parents and of the children, e.g. they need to bring lunch, they must do their homework etc. Teachers on the other hand must be trained to address such a diverse class with diverse needs. They should have training in pedagogy, methodology and sociology. Having the skills to meet the needs of migrant students would be an asset for the whole class.

chircoplouise — 2016-11-30 20:51:39 UTC

As i don't have newly arrived migrant students in my school, i have no exrerience. First of all teacher must look in the backround of the students.A teacher must start with the very simply life skills and basic needs like how to clean and keep clean your body. In order to succed this goal it is necessary to cooparate with a network of people in school, in

faggel71 — 2016-11-30 20:51:55 UTC

district and in the community.Second goal should be to get used in school enviroment and after that to teach school skills, the love of learning .

LUIGI, ITALY

2016-11-30 22:34:38 UTC

I don't have newly arrived migrants in my class but I think their basic needs are integration and safe environment.

Liza Greece

lizkou — 2016-12-01 04:59:11 UTC

Last year I was a teacher in a primary school and I had a girl from Syria who know neither English nor Greek well. Let's say she knew very little Greek. Most importantly, she became easy target for bulling. What we did first was to protect her from bulling enough violence she had faced all those years. We transferred her to another class where the students treated her with respect and accepted her. They explained to her even with gestures what she did not understand with words. Another thing we did was move her only for the language lesson to the first grade so she started the language from the beginning. This year I am in a high school and we have students from India, and Albania. The new comers do not speak Greek. Luckily, I am an English teacher, so I have better chances of communicating with them than other teachers.

Kristina Kaučić, Croatia

2016-12-01 07:06:30 UTC

I didn't have newly arrived migrants in my class but safe environment and support are the most important for them.

I do not have experience with immigrants students in school but in other enviroments and what I understood is that for them (expecially if not too young) it's important to feel that they can bring and keep with them, in the hosting country, their culture as well. So it is necessary to let them tell us about their past and their country and all the things that were "home" before the moving.

mft — 2016-12-01 08:27:24 UTC

I do not have experience with immigrants students in my school,but i think all their needs are very important:trauma,unknown language,unknown people,new sistem of school,new teachers..fear for their future.I think we can start for the first,to show them we are friends and our school is a safety place...Step..by step..

adinamarcu9 — 2016-12-01 12:58:42 UTC

Anna Russo

2016-12-01 14:40:09 UTC

recently I started my experience with these students and I believe that the primary need is to learn to at least understand the local language, making them at least a little more serene

Nuria Madrid SPAIN

nuria125 — 2016-12-01 14:52:59 UTC

Because of their mobile lifestyle, migrant students often start school late and leave early.
Often, they are retained in one or more grades and fall behind their age peers.
I think that economic hardships as well as educational gaps place migrant children at risk to drop out of school before graduation.

salvatriceloiacono — 2016-12-01 14:54:24 UTC

In the school where I work, there are several young Egyptians refugees arrived in Italy by sea without their families. They have very basic needs such as Those described by Amber. They arrived at the school last year scared, they did not understand the Italian, now spend their days in school with serenity with their Italian comrades, they are integrated and speak, and begin to write. they ask for help and possibility of hope.

Elisa Ciontoli, Italy

2016-12-01 17:31:05 UTC

The problem of migrants in recent years has increased also amazing because of the changed political situation in the Middle East and North Africa countries. When they arrived migrant children in school need many media first and foremost, to learn the language that is crucial for their integration in the classroom.

I havent worked with Newly arrived migrants but I have two syrian students that are in greece for two years now. It is amazing how important it is for them to feel accepted, to tell stories whenever it "suits" about their nation and the war or customs they have. They face difficulties in modern greek language lacking vocabulary of secondary level, but they are totally amazing in ancient greek declinations!they are very willing and quick in learning!

lekkazoi — 2016-12-01 18:32:46 UTC

Daniela, Italy

gea68_dp — 2016-12-01 20:21:45 UTC

Often migrant students have different needs. Someone have basic needs: they have difficulty on living, on buying books and food, and someone have great problems of languages. In my reality students are second generation migrants and so we don't see this type of problems

As I wrote in the first and second course, here in Central Italy we have faced multiple waves of Romanian and Albanian migrants. We had to deal with cultural and communication problems. The kids came to school. They learned the language and the culture. We did a good job and now we have the first generation of ex-migrants and well integrated students in universities. Actually we are facing a new and huge wave of Nigerian migrants. Mainly young males from 16 to 30 years old. Some of them are minors without parents. We're doing what we can in emergency conditions. They're not attending regular studies. They're not in our schools. I investigated this matter in my second LD. I interviewed some of them. I'm still checking this point but: they say they're not allowed to access the city center. You can see them walking in the suburbs or standing in front of supermarkets. In Rome there is a program of service learning: Italian students teach our language to Nigerian migrants. That's all.But, sooner or later, NAM students will attend the ordinary school. I taught in a economically depressed area for a few years. I can extrapolate from that experience.We are teachers and we tend to face every problem with academic solutions and in academic terms. But: this is reality and we have to verify personal condition of newly arrived migrant students first. The presence of psychological or behavioral symptoms. Clothes, personal hygiene, general conditions. And shoes. You can learn a lot from the shoes. And eyes. If you look into the eyes you can understand a lot.You have to build up a communication strategy. A translator like Goggle's is a basic but effective tool. There are non linguistic but powerful communication instruments. Drawing and playing football together seems a good idea to build up a first perception of a safe environment. Nigerian migrants speak a fluent English. No communication problem in this specific case. They are amazed by the fact that in Italy people don't speak English. They say:”In Nigeria only the poorest peasants don't speak English. Why nobody understands me here?”. You have to build up communication channels with local authorities. Here in Italy we maintain an active solidarity network. It would not be a problem for me to call the local authorities directly and personally.We have in our schools special needs students. Therefore, there is a psychological aid service.You need to know the places and the conditions in which NAM students live.After you've understood and verified the material conditions, you have to deal with the academic issues. It would be foolish to pretend that a NAM student will read Dante or Leopardi.But we've discussed this topic in first course. If you are interested in my poor opinions (and honestly I don't understand you), you can refer to my first LD.

angelo_boezi — 2016-12-01 20:43:11 UTC

dimitrakv89 — 2016-12-01 21:44:37 UTC

I totally believe that the primary need of a newly arrived migrant student is to feel safe and accepted by the community. As mentioned in the video, many of the children are suffering from trauma. So, teachers should deal with migrants' feelings to help them overcame the anxiety and the depression. Feeling safe and part of a community will boost children's self-esteem and motivate them to learn the language. Consequently, they will be more capable of succeeding in the academic field as well. Undeniably, teachers should be supported by the government and organizations which deal with migrants' problems.

Ioannis N. Velonakis, Greece

2016-12-01 21:56:03 UTC

Actually, I do not have any experience with newlly arrived migrants to any of the schools I have worked. I think that their basic needs must be appropriate nutrition and health care, as well as to feel safe and accepted. Of course, some of them may have traumatic experiences and need special psychological support. In some cases, students and teachers require support for addressing their needs. Another aspect that should be dealt carefully is the migrant students' language support, since their new country's official language will be their primary mean of communication.

henrydiplomate — 2016-12-02 02:55:00 UTC

I have been tutoring migrant students for about 7 months, I teach them French language. According to my experience, anger and frustration are the main issues we faced and it's due to the language barrier. They couldn't express their feelings. Our duty is to assure them that this stage is normal and everyone had it in the past.
Self-confidence is the key.

Anna Bormida

annabormida — 2016-12-02 08:05:50 UTC

Genova, Italy
At the moment I haven’t any refugee as student.

Ten years ago I have a student from Sri Lanka. She was 10 years old but she didn’t go to school, so she couldn’t write in her language. She didn’t know Italian.

She was supported from a voulounteer who helped her in order to improve her language and also helped her mum to find home and work.

She was very afraid of the war between Tamil people and Ceylonenses people.

She went from Madras, where she lived .

In Italy there was a tamil community in Palermo where she lived before coming to Genova.

I tried to know her history and the her people history in order to understand what i can do better. She was very indipendent and improved her Italian very well.

She passed to the College and I don’t know nothing about he present life .

She came to our school for a visit and I was very happy.

Miguel Canora, Spain

2016-12-02 10:06:29 UTC

I have found so many different needs in migrant students as different people they are. However, we may say that all of them are specific needs because of their situation. Difficulties with Spanish language have not always been a significant barrier. Cultural factors and overall familiar factors have usually worked as important obstacles in their social integration. I have found parents and families feeling not at ease when they see that their children are loosing their cultural habits, for example. Then they do things that can be considered as obstacles for their childrens' socialization. It is a problem that teachers and schools have to face but of course it is not easy at all.

Maria Luisa Provezza,Italy

2016-12-02 11:48:53 UTC

The main needs of my students are: being accepted and be part of a community which has a real interest in knowing their background and helping them grow up. Their past experiences are important for them and they want to talk about them. once I had an experience which helped me understand how newly migrant students feel. We had drama class and the teacher asked these students to recite a poem they learnt in their country. WE stayed in circle and listened to them. It was Manjola's turn (she is from Albania and had a very sad story). She told us she wanted to recite a poem she wrote in her Language. It seemed like a prayer and even if we couldn't understand the meaning of this poem we felt how intense and true was the sad story she was telling us. She cried and continued reciting the poem. My life changed suddenly. I understood : Manjola needed to feel at ease as her life had been so difficult that even the departure from Albania didn't help her find her way and feel part of a community. We became friends and even now we phoned each other and she tells me about her life, her success and failure. When she understood that there were people who cared, then she became a very good student and tried to do her best.

Claudia Hodorog,Romania

2016-12-02 13:27:14 UTC

I never had immigrants as my students and I don't know anyone who had, but I do belive their needs are important.They deserve a chance at life and we need to support them and help them as much as we can.No one deserves to go through what immigrants went through and I think is sad that some people don't accept them for who they are and refuse to help them.

Diana Crista,Romania

2016-12-02 13:34:39 UTC

I work in a school who had immigrants but they were never my students.I heard sad stories about them.They were treated good by the rest of the students.They were helped by everyone and that made me happy.I really admired them and i do belibe their needs are important.

Pamela, Italy

masalapamela — 2016-12-02 14:38:33 UTC

I think that communication is the first main need of my students. They're in a new country, so learning Italian will allow them to become really part of the new society in order to satisfy other basic needs such as: build new relationships, move through the big amount of laws and regulations that are essential to have medical and legal assistance and share they're experience as migrants in a world that has forgotten the meaning of leaving home countries.
The second main problem I face is the lack of economical resources that are essential in daily surviving. For example most of the refugees need clothes (shoes, slips, socks...), dishes and food, that often is provided by charity.
There are organizations and associations, as the one I serve in as a volunteer,that act in order to address the entire range of needs. For example my associations has experienced and qualified staff that offer Italian free classes, free cultural mediation service and clothes and food distribution.
We also organize intercultural activities (such as creative recycle, knitting and sewing labs) that are open both to Italians and foreigners so they really know each other and build strong and true relationships.

Ester, Italy

2016-12-02 15:34:51 UTC

The main needs of newly arrived migrants are to learn the new language as soon as possible and make new friends so that they can begin the new life in a positive way. In the beginning it's also very important for them not to lose the motivation for studying because they don't know the language and can't do so much. One solution could be to give them tasks they can they in their own language. A mediator could give a great help.

Tina,Lesvos Greece

2016-12-02 15:45:10 UTC

I have in my school a 13 years old boy, refugee from Iran,he want to tell us his story. he dont speak any Greek but he speak very well English.the children have embraced him ,speak with him eglish and 4 children have volunteered to learn himbasic language skills. we have a special education teacher who helps him in the Language

Elvira, Italy

2016-12-02 17:06:33 UTC

The students arriving to a new country first of all need to feel welcomed and helped to overcome all difficulties. The teachers have to be able to make them feel comfortable and at ease, therefore both, the students and the teachers, need to be helped and assisted by psycologists and other specialists.

Ivana, Italy I think the main needs of newly arrived migrants are: to be accepted and integrated, and to learn the language in order to interact with other people.

2016-12-02 17:31:01 UTC

Francesca, Italy

11effemme — 2016-12-02 17:46:03 UTC

School is the first and most important agency for students and expecially for newly arrived migrants. School must answer to their needs, and academical needs ar not the only ones, so school must find answers and people who can help its students. It's fondamental.

Annarita, Italy

studioferrenti — 2016-12-02 18:21:57 UTC

I think that an immigrant has to find school teachers and cultural mediators, available teachers, teaching staff, intercultural workshops.

Vincenzo, Italy

studioferrenti — 2016-12-02 19:43:54 UTC

Find school a welcoming environment is the first step for inclusion

Olga Keramida/Greece

olkeramida — 2016-12-02 20:22:29 UTC

They need moral support before all, to feel accepted. A warm place with love and understanding is their first need.

The first thing they need to found is a cozy atmosphere

rosaria_79 — 2016-12-02 20:28:34 UTC

Then they need a tutor for learning the L2, and cultural mediators.

Astypalea, Greece

estavla84 — 2016-12-02 20:52:38 UTC

I don' t have any experience with newly arrived migrants. I think that we should make feel safe and accepted and then we should try to teach them the language.

I think the main needs of foreign students are learning the language and therefore the understanding of subjects studied. I have no experience of students with basic needs or trauma. I think that foreign students should follow the Italian upgrading courses. And that should be placed in classes where you study a language that is foreign for them, but who have studied in school. Wax to communicate the whole class in a foreign language makes everyone feel equal.

patti_giorgi — 2016-12-02 22:19:32 UTC

Luljet

2016-12-02 22:44:32 UTC

I have some experience with returned emigrant. Perhaps is not the same but they have need for our suport , too.

Most of my students' basic needs are met at the places where they live. However, parents often come to school for support and some needs for clothes , food or advice are met by volunteer associations out of school, volunteer teachers and the parents' association. At school we mainly deal with language support and we try to create a welcoming and safe environment where they feel safe and accepted.

alexkosmetatou — 2016-12-03 13:02:46 UTC

Amélia Vilarinho, Belgium

2016-12-03 13:43:40 UTC

We have a variety of students coming from different cultural background, speaking different languages. In my case, the language support is one of the main needs. However, I believe that dealing with refugee children , Language is just one of other important aspects to overcome, since they surely need to be supported on an emotional level and basic life needs.

Eugenia, Sicily

eugeniagiordano73 — 2016-12-03 14:49:45 UTC

I work everyday with migrant - often not accompanied - minors. Yes, they need much more than our school can give, in terms of psicological help and L2 courses. But, we are trying to put all actors of society together. It's a very hard job, and we fail often. The most horrible is when children escape from their new "house". Its a trauma for everybody. But in some cases we succed, see them grow year after year.
Schools need qualified personel to deal with those situation: but the experience with NAM its usefull also for local students! every child is different! every situation can be traumatic.

Antonella P.

2016-12-03 15:20:15 UTC

I've never had experience with refugees. I thought that the only problem was in learning the new language and in adapting to our western society. I 've never tought that there could be children or teenagers that didn't know the basic skills of life like brushing teeth and using the toilet. Amber's report really opened my eyes. School is not only the place in which we must teach school subjects but it is also the place in which we must deal with basic life skills and with the students' needs

Martina O., Italy

innisfail82 — 2016-12-03 15:42:59 UTC

In the last years as a teacher I met students with very different needs: sometimes they had language issues, sometimes economic issues and the difficulty to buy clothes, shoes, books. Sometimes they were in Italy alone, without their family and they lived in communities for underage people.
So they had a large amount of cultural, economic and emotional needs.
Unfortunately in our schools we do not always have programs like the ones described in the second video. We have tried to help our students as we could, but it's not enough, we need to have structural programs in every school, with the help of a psychologist and maybe to build a strong net with cultural associations, sports associations.

Songul KURT/France

80songulkurt_sk — 2016-12-03 15:54:03 UTC

I think newly arrived migrant students are so fragile that we really need to make them feel that they are safe and sound, they need to adopt new life and they need to survive, fight for the difficulties of life, they need to be strong. We need to make them feel comfortable, psychologically, we need to share their psyhological situation. They attend some cultural events, some sportive events at first so that they can communicate with each other, they feel happy, they feel the hope for living, at first, these kinds of events are so useful and effective for these students to calm down, feel much more better, start to determining new goals, new dreams in life!

Tonia B. Greece

toniaba — 2016-12-03 17:07:02 UTC

What is obvious from young refugees' experiences is that they need to feel safe and overcome the feelings of pain and anger they had lived through.Once they feel safe,they start dreaming their future and that is what makes their teachers happy.

Kaiti, Greece

2016-12-03 17:43:38 UTC

Having worked with young refugees for a couple of months, I strongly believe that our first aim has to be about fulfilling their basic needs, safety, accommodation, food, hygience. Many of the children I worked with didn't know how to brush their teeth, cut their nails or comb their hair. Under these circumstances, you practice these things in front of them, you are a pattern for them an you teach them abilities. Only when the basic abilities have been conquered you can go ahead, teaching the language or maths.

It 's always important to remember that it is important to teach knowledge, to promote important skills, to live well and to meet even basic needs

mariaantonietta_caravelli — 2016-12-03 18:25:13 UTC

Doina Andrei, Romania

2016-12-03 20:02:34 UTC

Schools are struggling to address the diverse linguistic, academic, and socioemotional needs for newly arrived youth who have experienced significant disruption and trauma. School systems will continue to face urgent challenges in building professional capacity to work with newcomer youth. Building teacher capacity is one of the greatest challenges to meeting the needs of newcomer youth. There is a shortage of teachers needed to cover the ever-increasing number of students enrolling in schools, and specifically to instruct students with learning gaps due to interrupted education and who need support to learn the language of instruction.

Μαρία Ανυφαντή

2016-12-04 09:00:04 UTC

Although I have no migrant students this year, I think that each of them is unique and has its own needs. We are obligated to support them in the way they need it. Our first aim is to make them feel safe and comfortable to talk to us and ask us what they need. It’ s our duty also to inspire their classmates to welcome them and facilitate their integration.

Simona C, Italy

simoneva_2000 — 2016-12-04 09:13:34 UTC

Meeting the needs of refugee students in schools is a delicate issue. They are fragile kids with different backgrounds who often cannot speak so well the language used at school. It is important to be patient and welcoming with them and teach them firstly - as the video hightlights- the basic skills for life, give them the practical tools to start a successful path of integration/inclusion in the community. Teachers and other community organisations should work together, of course.

Aurora, Italy

2016-12-04 09:28:32 UTC

If I were an immigrant, I'd hope to find a teacher who speaks with me and help me not only for the language but also for all the other needs and feeelings.

charaliakou — 2016-12-04 12:06:00 UTC

I do not have personally experience, except when I studied for my master degree in Berlin, I did a tree months project in a kindergarten with a very high amount of migrants and refugee children. I think the children need to be treatment well and kind, to be love and understand, as possiple the difficulties they come through (language, family, economiacal).

The school has an important role regarding the integration of refugees and migrants. My school is not prepared to manage the situation of migrants pupils because of the missing additional resources/ teachers who speak the refugee children's language.

tanasoiu_lavinia — 2016-12-04 12:13:20 UTC

Patrizia Italy

2016-12-04 13:58:05 UTC

I was really impressed by the first video. School, can really do a lot for students who have got difficulties in everyday life.There should be a network of people in different fields ready to help these students who only ask to have the chance to conduct a normal life exactly as each human being in the universe

Anni Patra

2016-12-04 14:39:04 UTC

in my school we do not have students from other countries, but I think that the main needs of students are to be helped to adjust in the school community and start feeling a part of the new country and of the society. it is very important to get help in order to face the trauma of the war and of course they need support with the language. I think that all the other needs such as clothes, food and shelter are more or less provided by organizations and individuals.

2016-12-04 14:41:22 UTC

Lucia, Italy

luciaanemoli — 2016-12-04 16:05:16 UTC

Stability. Comprehension. Time. These are some of the primary needs of my foreign students

Francesca, Rome Italy

pacenca — 2016-12-04 16:18:40 UTC

I have some students that don't want to speak about their past experiences. A girl tells me that she has deep problem to believe in other person. I always try to give my best in comunicate with my students. Key words are:
motivation,
sincerity,
listening.

Keratso, Greece

2016-12-04 18:05:33 UTC

Integration in the new society, learning the language of the country they stay, hospitality, provision of basic needs like food, clothes, a place to live in human conditions and not in camps under bad weather conditions, friendly environment to get over the psychological pressure they have been through and a lot of patience to be able to teach the refugee students and the native students the way to live together

Anke from Germany

AnWi — 2016-12-04 18:54:44 UTC

to build an atmosphere of trust and confidence; to keep patient, because sometimes our students need a lot of time before they can trust grown ups again; to encourage contact with the other students; and: to convince the whole staff to integrate newly arrived children into whatever class activity - when teaching a language Course to a group of refugee students last year I realized that These Things were far more important than exercizing grammar

greece

papakos5 — 2016-12-04 19:24:04 UTC

First the needs of the refugees are subsistence. A home to stay, food clothes.
Then there must be a psychological help to alleviate their pain for the war lived in their country.
Finally we should be doing them feel security and show them that we consider them part of our own society

Samanta,Italy

samac1217 — 2016-12-04 20:08:59 UTC

I think the needs of refugees are material things that they haven't. Then they need a quiet place in wich ri-elaborate their changements . Feeling of emphaty, comprehension, sense of hospitality. There is also the necessity of some specialized people than colud listen to their stories , write and draw them.

Bugra

2016-12-04 20:18:01 UTC

I think there has to be a welcoming package for refugees in each country to make officers take right action to help them without wasting time especially for educators.

Evgenia (Jenny) Karoumpali, Greece

jennykaroumpali — 2016-12-04 20:30:41 UTC

It is questionable whether the physiological, safety and love / belonging needs of the newly arrived migrant students (especially the refugees) are met. As these three needs (according to the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) are crucial for a human, they must be met as soon as possible.

School can help them in collaboration with different institutions to meet all their needs.

The language support is necessary for the refugees, but it will be more effective when their physiological and safety needs are already met.

I have had experiences of native pupils having very basic needs, and this is very sad especially nowadays.

During the school term 2009-2010 I worked in a junior high school located in a deprived area of Patras, Greece (https://www.google.gr/maps/place/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B1/@38.2489936,20.6249976,8z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x135e3599a524ed2d:0x400bd2ce2b98ca0!8m2!3d38.2466395!4d21.734574). The theology teacher of that school had organized a support network, so that the basic needs of the native pupils (food, clothes etc) are met (there were no refugees), which I had never seen before.

Graziana, Italy

beinatgraziana — 2016-12-05 10:21:12 UTC

I was really impressed by both experiences. Nevertheless I think school can make the difference if its efforts are coordinated and it can rely on the support of the shelters or families young refugees live within. One of my pupils is a teenager who spent most of his life in a refugee camp before arriving in Italy. He was not used to sitting at a desk or to organizing his school supplies. He used to leave his classroom whenever he was upset. Things have slightly improved, but it is very difficult to make steps forward when families, as in this case, are not helpful. I think the experiences above were successful only because everybody was pursuing the same goal.

Katerina Kostaki, Greece

katkos2003 — 2016-12-05 10:57:01 UTC

I believe that the refugees are people with a lot of needs that they need care and protection. The first things have to do with their basic needs (food, water, home). Then, they require phychological support (sense of safety, care and acceptance). Last but not least, their educational needs should be covered by fully-equipped schools and well-trained teachers as much as possible.

some of the needs of newly arrived migrant students and how they are being addressed at school and with the support of external partners

MaestraRoberta — 2016-12-05 11:55:16 UTC

Refugees want to know language, and often they have not any school skills, or the things we usually do to live (use toilet, wash themselves...). Teacher have a difficult work.
You need to teach the necessary skill to be successful at school and in life. Is important to have a community organization.

Nils / Germany

2016-12-05 14:53:00 UTC

I think language is the key to so many other things that it's really important. I also think that the migrants should learn as much about our culture as we do about theirs.

Lina Italy

2016-12-05 15:46:58 UTC

Very interesting

Rosa Calvino integration is the keyword to success for our schools

2016-12-05 15:55:04 UTC

Elisabetta, Italy

2016-12-05 16:58:01 UTC

This is very interisting!! in Italy we have a lot to teach.....
I seem to live in another world ...... two years ago, with the school year began, boy from Moldova is arrived in my country, to rejoin his mother who worked in Italy. The mother has enrolled him in my school and the next day he was catapulted into a new class, not a word of English or French.

I contacted the agency that manages the cultural mediators, after someweeks he was supported for 4 hours in total from a cultural mediator who explained how the Italian school function.

Then the school, after a few month,s has enabled the first literacy classes to teach him Italian.

The class teacher team has required the help of a classmate who, knowing the Moldovan could act as an interpreter between us and him

I do not have an experience with newly aarived migrant students in my classroom but I think that first of all they need to feel safe and deal with their traumas (if there is such). In this stage I think that a phychologist or a counselor in colaboration with the sch

2016-12-05 17:03:50 UTC

Sühü, Turkey

yabanmersini85 — 2016-12-05 19:25:16 UTC

When I worked in America in a refugee school, I realized that they have basic needs beyond reading and writing. They do not know how to get hospital or how to communicate with embassy for paper issues, how to use closets, how to use money and how to get exchange etc. I think before schooling we as teachers should support and help about their daily life needs. The one of the main problem is communication. Most of the parents cannot communicate well like their children and they use their kids as translator. One of my students took his mom to doctor and he told about his moms' pain and problems to doctor. Then he translated to his mom. By the way, he was only 7. When doctor got the results and told him, he got shocked. Because doctor said your mom has a cancer. Can you imagine that how life is harsh to an only seven years old boy?

"The door is open"

stellastathou — 2016-12-05 20:09:26 UTC

Well, my school is a part of a small community that we all know each other so, until now we had never experienced how it is to be with migrant students and that there was no need to form any integration plan. Since we have welcomed our first migrant student last month, we are thinking and discussing how we can make him feel comfortable. It is about a boy 14 years old from Aigypt who can scarcely unerstand French and he can't speak English at all (not to say about Greek!). He doesn't dealing with a trauma nor has he these basic needs that Amber outlined, but of course he needs help. So the most important thing is we, the teachers first of all, to form and discuss with each other an agenda of specific accepted and not accepted behaviours about him in the classroom. The important thing at this point is to be stand together to make the school a safe place for him and help ourselves and the other students to communicate with him properly.

Evangelia, Greece

2016-12-05 21:32:47 UTC

Although I do not teach to newly arrived migrants at present, I guess they need a lot of support in many different levels, their psychology, their language, their getting used to new habits and ways of life. The mentality of the people should be such that fosters they integration. The role of schools is very important since they can help or prevent the process of integration from taking place.

I haven't taught newly arrived migrant students yet, but I consider covering basic needs(home, food, clothes) a priority. Giving them back the hope of living by making them feel secure and valued is the next big step. School, community and individuals should help them stop 'fighting with their fears' or using 'breathing technics' to control anxiety. All supportive partners should help them familiarise themselves with the new culture without forgeting their own.

mkaradani — 2016-12-05 21:36:16 UTC

I had a number of very different migrant students over the years, not all of them newly arrived. I especially remembered one who had many of the characteristics described in the first video: his schooling experience in his own country had been very poor, and his life conditions very basic; he expressed himself in a very physical way, jumping and climbing everywhere. But he was so happy to be at school that it was difficult to convince him to go back home when lessons were over, on the first days he just sat ooutside, waiting for the school doors to open for him again. I don't think we were very successful in helping him develop all his potential, but at least he found a place where he felt safe, and where he liked to come back everyday.

teacherman — 2016-12-05 21:58:24 UTC

GEORGE KYRIAKOPOULOS, GREECE

gkyriakopoul197 — 2016-12-05 23:41:17 UTC

Unfortunately, never have i had such the enriching experience to deal with migrants in my classrom. But I can only suppose that Muslow's Pyramid is a good starting point. I guess the link says it all: http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Olga, Finland

2016-12-06 06:17:13 UTC

I think one of the main needs of any student is to be heard and accepted by the society as he or she is. Educational and language support comes later with time.

Margarita GR

mgerouki — 2016-12-06 09:26:33 UTC

I believe the first basic need to be met is safety. Students should feel safe in their new environment. Then they should feel that they are part of a community that cares. Finally they need a positive vision for their future

Aristea, Greece

afpigiaki — 2016-12-06 11:56:23 UTC

All these needs of newly arrived migrants mentioned in the videos are quite obvious. Imagine ourselves in their place. These people had to deal with their survival. So, school was not a priority. However, what really emegres form their interviews is their feelings; confused, angry, frustrated anxious about settling down and about their future. Of course it is about trauma and it is the most difficult issue that teachers have to deal with. Language is a problem only in the beginning. What about their feeling? They have suffered a lot and suddenly they need to adjust themselves in a new reality. Young people are adjustable but they need support and encouragement by us. They need to gradually feel safe and self-confident,so as to respect and be respected.

Maša, Croatia

2016-12-06 12:06:49 UTC

It is certainly very important to keep in mind and be able to recognize a situation in which the child and / or his family needed psychosocial support. However, the assumption that every single refugee/migrant child is traumatized and /or deprived can be potential very dangerous. Sometimes a child who is fighting with his classmates does it simply because it is a just ten-year child, not because it's repressed anger caused by his refugee experience. Looking at child only trough the prism of that one part of his identity can also lead to labeling.

Minca Mihaela, Romania

coman_mihaela — 2016-12-06 16:56:39 UTC

Like many other colleagues, I believe it is important to have stability and safety. All children need protection and love not a hostile environment

Yakup, Turkey.

yakupbuyukkaragoz — 2016-12-06 19:35:19 UTC

The two videos are very useful. So we could live like experiences. We must think every needs. We must do emphaty about their new life and their needs. ı want to say that is hospitality. We have to learn share them that what we have .

Meeting students general needs not only their academic ones is one of the most important taasks that a teacher should do. We us teachers usually concentrate on teaching vocabulary and grammar to newly arrived students so as to help them learn the new language quickly and integrate... Nevertheless, we forget that these students have faced great hardships and they need love and affection...and someone to show them the path to their new life

2016-12-06 21:02:33 UTC

Maria M., Italy

pantalaimon82 — 2016-12-06 21:39:04 UTC

Each student has his story and his necessities. For me, an hard challenge are students that haven’t gone to school in their original countries, because they arrive into Italian lower secondary school, but they don't know how to use a pencil or a pen and they can’t read and they lack of school skills.

In my classroom there is a Romanian girl arrived in Italy eight months ago. She is thirteen years old, she speaks Italian quite well for ordinary communications and she is learning new words every day, but she attended only the first year at the primary school when she was six years old, then she didn’t attend any school till September 2016. Obviously she reads and writes like a six years old child, she is not used to engage herself in school activities and to sustain school effort.

This is a hard challenge for me and I need to rethink my teaching practice, because my student can’t do anything without teacher support, but I have to teach to 23 students (Italian students and migrant students arrived in Italy many years ago) and I can’t be near her all the time. I need to teach her not only school subjects, but also school skills and skills for life.

I think that a cooperation network is really important to sustain newly arrived students and I hope to create it with colleagues and students’ parents and local organizations.

Serena-G, Italy

serena_gem — 2016-12-07 08:48:17 UTC

I've now no newly arrived migrant student in my classroom. Anyway I think it's very important to be able to always welcoming new student.
So I think that the first aim a teacher has to bear in mind is that the main needs are not of reading or writing or speaking...but of having a normal and peaceful life. First of all these students need to be better.
A good work with the emotional intelligence is more important than a work about teaching.

Sultan ALP, Ankara-Turkey

sultaneliz — 2016-12-07 10:05:48 UTC

I don't have refugee students this year because I work at a high school now. But last year I have 3 refugee students and their main needs were clothing, cleaning, food and language. They didn't know our language so at the beginning they had some problems with others. And we as teachers help them buying boots and coats and we did a huge shopping for them. Then their father got a job and later they were happier; because they started to adapt the town and communicate with other people.

Jelena

jelenapro — 2016-12-07 14:07:25 UTC

I think that every student needs must be met according to Maslow theory

A

2016-12-07 15:40:40 UTC

Asun Ara, Spain

2016-12-07 15:40:41 UTC

When we, teachers, think of the newly arrived migrants, usually worry because they don't know the vehicular language in the class, but this handicap is not as important as others. The lack of awareness of the traditions and norms in the new country can be a serious problem for the integration in the new society. But above all, the so horrible experiences they have lived until they have arrived in the new country, everything they have seen and lost in their way and in many cases the lack of a "home" (and I don't mean a "house" but a "home") can evoque negative feelings and psychological disorders.

So, in many cases, they need more psychological support and emotional stability rather than the acquisition of contents. Thus, it is a difficult matter to solve since they don't know our language and in many cases, we don't know the language they speak, so it is quite difficult the communication between us and transmitting good vibes. Moreover, few teachers are developed academically in order to deal with the psychological problems that they suffer from. And even more, sometimes they don't have their basic needs, so it is impossible that they care learning our subjects.

I am sure that if we, teachers and native students, make the effort to integrate them in our classes, their difficult process of adaptation to the new class and society will be easier, but not simple

I think the first, most important need newly arrived students have is to feel welcome and safe at school. Only after creating such climate, it will be possible to start furnish them the necessary tools and sills to success accademically and in social life.

vanessa_ridolfi — 2016-12-08 06:00:12 UTC

laura brazzabeni

2016-12-08 07:45:22 UTC

we have to welcome new students and make them feel at home.

Theodora Ntanou (Greece)

2016-12-08 09:45:46 UTC

Reading all the adove I would like to assume that it is important to tailor educational support to individual needs and continue it throughout the general education in all key areas including linguistic and academic support, parental and community involvement and intercultural education.

paolagag — 2016-12-08 10:07:46 UTC

I have never had refugee students in my school, but there are lots of migrant students, and many of them come from their country, and they don't understand or speak Italian. I think the first important think is making them feel at home and safe at school.

It's so important the school background each student has and their need to be accepted by their classmates. And if is necessary, we have to teach our students even the basic school skills mo matter their age. And with patience we 'll notice their progress through years.

mampla78 — 2016-12-08 12:34:47 UTC

Chary Tudela

ctudelab — 2016-12-08 12:40:57 UTC

The first video helps me from a professional point of view through a teacher to understand how to execute the curriculum adaptation.
The second video reminds me that in order to adapt we need not only professionalism but to be good people with soul and heart to empathize and understand their feelings

Rosanna, Italy

2016-12-08 20:46:09 UTC

I think that it's so important to know the background each student has, but I think the most important need of student is a psychological support and emozional Stability rather than the acquisition of contents. For really integration of migrant students is important the cooperation between teachers and students' parents and collaboration with local organization.

Maite (Spain)

2016-12-09 22:37:56 UTC

The experience look to be very grarificant. What I image can be very difficult is to be aware of other laks they have, not only communication

Donka Slavcheva, Bulgaria

dkirovska — 2016-12-09 22:55:30 UTC

The oth videos show how many questions there, which we do not realize. And the main - how it feels other (migrant). Especially when he was a child. Different culture, language, customs, different people and a great trauma. This is where the role of not only class teacher, but the school psychologist, the whole team of professionals who need to assess the child's needs and resources for its proper and adequate support.

Caterina Musmeci, Italy

2016-12-09 23:21:03 UTC

The main needs of my students are, in my opinion, bridge the linguistic and cultural gap. Is important made to understand that we care about them.

Spain

2016-12-10 07:53:50 UTC

I think that both videos are very interesting. I do have experience with foreign students but without language problems. I have not newly arrived migrant students but I think that first of all they need to feel safe, we should know every needs and do empathy about their new life and their first needs.

elysweet — 2016-12-10 15:53:18 UTC

A CHALLENGE FOR BOTH TEACHERS AND COMMUNITIES

rubaloredana — 2016-12-10 16:45:12 UTC

The basic needs of a migrant student is to feel secure and happy in the middle of the new educational environment. For most of us this is a challenge and our purposes as teachers are to get educational results also, meaning language skills, operational skill , math skills and emotional development. Huge steps!

A CHALLENGE FOR BOTH TEACHERS AND COMMUNITIES

rubaloredana — 2016-12-10 16:57:12 UTC

anantina

2016-12-11 11:04:54 UTC

anan

2016-12-11 11:04:54 UTC

anantina-Gree

2016-12-11 11:04:54 UTC

I believe that refugees as well as all children have needs and need our support in matters as education as well as for basic needs. Trauma is also a subject which we
can help them but with the support of a specialist.

Evangelia, Greece

evelpap — 2016-12-11 13:47:52 UTC

When it comes to newly arrived children, catch-up classes so as to provide children with experiences which are in their Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) are of vital importance to encourage their learning. Along with that, the creation of a welcoming environment would be conducive to their smooth transition. However, it's not anly about advancing their academic skills; language, culture and identity are interwoven, therefore reference to and respect towards their home country and native language are deemed more than necessary.

Ionela Lazea, Romania

kameeliah16bis — 2016-12-11 17:58:52 UTC

We don't have any refugees in my kindergarten, but Amber's stories seems really difficult. These children have gone through many things no one should go through, but they are resiliant and, when given the chance and with support, I believe they adapt very quickly to their new surroundings.

Giannis - GREECE

gkgian66 — 2016-12-11 18:46:51 UTC

We just t to fully integrate the refugees

Giuseppe - Italy

gfm_sapuppo — 2016-12-11 22:17:38 UTC

I haven't migrant students in my classroom, but I think that children and teenagers with trauma should be supported with our work, skills and love.

Giovanna V. - Italy

2016-12-12 05:16:52 UTC

The main needs of my newly arriving migrant students are: understand the language, join in with the class group they feel so different from them and basic surviving needs. Not always the school provides the Italian as L2 course support, the community provides support to basic needs mainly on charity base. My Italian student and the teacher are the source of integration of these students.

Maria Calà

giambigia — 2016-12-12 14:56:39 UTC

Maria Calà

giambigia — 2016-12-12 14:56:56 UTC

I think it is important to get to know each student and a foreigner, refugee or emigrated or otherwise, has the need for more of a psychological and emotional stability of support rather than the acquisition of content. I think they do not want our pity, but want to be understood, accepted and loved to be integrated in the new context. It is important the cooperation between teachers and parents of students and collaboration with the local organization.

Marinela,Romania

2016-12-12 16:40:58 UTC

I haven't migrant students in my classroom, but I think that they need our work, our skills to feel secure in the new educational environment. 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.

The main need of migrant students at my school is to learn the Italian language better. They usually know some Italian but for some of them it’s not enough to be able to understand lessons where specific vocabulary and language structures are required. They have some specific Italian lessons in small groups of migrant students while their classmates have other subjects that would be too difficult for them because of the language. Sometimes they also need psychological support due to family problems derived from the difficulties the parents have to find a proper job or due to living conditions that are not up to their expectations. In this case we can meet their needs because we have a psychologist at school.We don’t have experiences of students with very basic needs such as those outlined by Amber.

mariella_brunaz — 2016-12-12 17:29:17 UTC

I have newly arrived migrant students. I think that they need to feel safe, we should don't forget that. School should help them.

oksana_aleknavicius — 2016-12-13 14:54:58 UTC

Annalisa Ferrari, Italy

annaliferrari — 2016-12-13 16:39:30 UTC

When new migrants are presented at school, the most important needs regarding the language and habits. Many kids are not used to going to school, they do not speak Italian, and they are immediately placed in a foreign environment from all points of view. For me, therefore, the first need, the most immediate, regards the need to speak Italian: they need to know at least the main expressions that allow to move independently within the school, and making it possible to begin to communicate with classmates.

Edi, Italy

12cdunne — 2016-12-13 17:06:58 UTC

In my school there are migrants students. Most of them have needs mainly regarding the Italian language and the different habits. The priority is to teach them basic Italian first, during the lessons of the various subjects. The school tries to involve the family and parents are regularly asked to come and talk with teachers. Communication is made possible thanks to interpreters.

Fragoula,Crete

kouskourida — 2016-12-13 20:31:43 UTC

In our schoolswe don't have migrant pupils, but i think of them because they have to cope with so many: new language, new place, loneliness, new school, new environment.They are heroes.

Rony

ronyford — 2016-12-13 21:03:41 UTC

At the moment there is no newly arrived at the Center , but there is diversity and different issues that are link to integration. Also due to the nature of , we could soon be supporting this students as they face the education system.
The initial support is language , basic community awareness. Access to emotional help.
I had had experience of students not being able to access basic needs and need training on many things we take for grants. My approach is always to teach those skills with love and understanding, never assume that because you know they do to.

I work for a charity organisation that aims at helping newly arrived migrants in the UK. This organisation is part of a local network helping to provide the migrants with basic necessities (food, clothes, personal hygiene items, etc.) as well as healthcare. The network is useful in terms of helping the migrants to find and access necessary services. We arrange for free English language classes in a community setting for those adult migrants who cannot access college. But mainly we aim at creating an environment where the migrants would feel safe and welcome to come and make friends, engage in various activities ranging from board games to few week long courses, join us on visits to local places, etc. We try to help them adjust to the way of life in their new community. This often includes explaining and showing how the systems work in this country (starting from getting a bus ticket to making a hospital appointment or applying for a job), what the social norms and expectations are (e.g. what behaviour is expected in a school or a workplace), how culture and traditions affect day-to-day life (e.g. what festivals people have in the UK and the way those are celebrated). I could go on and on, but the main message here is that the needs of newly arrived migrants are not limited by learning the language and getting a house to live.

Liliya_B — 2016-12-14 00:23:40 UTC

Maria Ts

2016-12-14 18:09:51 UTC

Maria Tsiamtsiouri-Greece

2016-12-14 18:34:41 UTC

I believe that they need support both in practical and psychological issues.

In this moment I haven't migrant students but we're waiting for six of them to include in a first class of High School.I've many expectations from their arrival.

sabrina_malizia — 2016-12-14 20:38:03 UTC

EUGENIA VLAD

2016-12-16 12:13:27 UTC

in my school aren`t situation

Marijana

silipa302 — 2017-05-24 06:52:38 UTC

I think the students need to feel welcome. They would defnitely need a lot of support from Psychologist, but also simple and great friends among their peers. They will need extra classes to learn the native language