1.  Understand the general organizational models of integrating newly arrived migrant students in schools

2.  Understand how school structures and management are important factors for the successful integration of newly arrived migrant students

3.Develop some ideas on how to create a welcoming and safe environment at school for newly arrived migrant students

4.  Identify who inside and outside your school you can work with to support the integration of newly arrived migrant students

 

 

“Schools create that important space, where teenagers, as soon as they arrive, can have a life perspective again”.


 Successfully integrating newly arrived migrant children in our society is one of the key challenges at the moment. Schools have a key role to play here, but often they lack the experience and external support. Welcoming newly arrived migrant children at the school is a huge task for the school management, teachers, but also all staff members.

I  agree with Professor. The meeting with multiculturalism could really be an opportunity to offer new possibilities to the school. We have to be ready to face the reality. Intergration can be succeded as long as we are ready to face the issue with responsibility. 

The specific needs of newly arrived migrant students coming into schools are as diverse as the students themselves. However, their common experiences of fleeing their home country, often living through harrowing situations and losing loved-ones, sometimes coming from quite basic living conditions prior to arriving in schools, as well as the experience of being in a foreign place, does mean that this group of students often has some specific needs that we at school need to be aware of.
What do you feel are the main needs of your students? Where do they and you require support in addressing their needs? Is it dealing with trauma? Or is it about language support? Do you also have experiences where students have very basic needs such as those outlined by Amber? And how do you meet those? Share your ideas and views here.

We have migrants in my school and their problems are above all about different languages spoken at school and at home. It is amazing to see the things have done in other countries about migrants. We have many things to learn.

In this section we explore some general concepts and specific ideas how at school level things can be organised in such a way so that newly arrived migrants can be effectively supported by teachers and others in the community.

What support do you receive from your school for your work with the newly arrived migrants? What additional support do you need?

We have Syrian refugee students. As they don't know Turkish and English, it is so difficult to communicate and educate them. I do not receive any special support from my school when addressing the situation of newly arrived migrant students. It's very difficult for us to teach them and there is no parallel language integration classes for these kids because it's not the principal who decides but the Ministry of Education.  

How is the integration of newly arrived migrant students organized in your school? What are the advantages/ challenges related to the way your school organizes integration?
The newly arrived migrant students at our school attend regular classes, they don't understand the language.For now the main goal is to manage to integrate socially.

 Community engagement cannot only be a requirement for the successful integration of our students, it can also be a method to help both our students and us as educators build up exactly the type of community network.

Do you have any ideas for your own community development project, inspired by Jana’s video? Could you easily adopt the RespAct project ideas at your school? Please share your ideas and responses here.

RespAct project is a very good and interesting community project.
I think we can organise a community-based project in cooperation with the local community. It will be a great challenge for the students, the teachers and the local authorities.We can adopt the RespAct ideas. Events, Sports, Music, Arts with all of us, Teachers, Parents and Students.

The Learning Objectives for this module are: