Integrating Newly Arrived Migrant Students in Schools-Rerun by ELENI KYRIOTI https://padlet.com/kyriotieleni/qkngab04f0x1 Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2017-05-07 15:55:46 UTC 2025-10-11 16:16:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Module 1: Newly arrived migrant students in the school kyriotieleni https://padlet.com/kyriotieleni/qkngab04f0x1/wish/170369837
The Learning Objectives for this module are:
  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

1.1 Challenges & Opportunities
1.2 Meeting the needs of newly arrived migrant students at school

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

  • educational background - find out the level of schooling students have received and give them the skills they need to be successful
  • help students adjust to new environment - cooperate and coordinate with community organisations
  • teach students not only acdemic skills but also skills necessary to be successfull in school and in life ( how to use a flush toilet, sink, stove etc)
  • helps students' families get in touch with supportive network in order to get services that they need ( for example doctor)
  • help students overcome state of trauma
  • understand students past, feelings about leaving their country and arriving in a new country

1.3 Models of school integration

The main ways how the integration of newly arrived migrant students is organized in schools
  • submersion - Children are attending class and regural lessons in language that is commonly used in school.Special support is not provided
  • integration -Children attend classes and regural lessons . They have additional classes in the language of the host country.
  • parallel -Children are taught in separate classes (language, second language, crucial subjects). After a year they achieve school qualification that enables them to transfer to ahigher seciondary school or get job access.

1.5 Example of a community-based project

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

http://www.respact.org/home-page-2 /  
How they have organised such a community project and the benefits it can bring to our students
  • Goals
   workshops in schools,
  • Methodology
 sports, video modules, community awareness


1.6 Activity: Preparing a development plan


]]> 2017-05-07 16:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kyriotieleni/qkngab04f0x1/wish/170369837 Module 2: Newly arrived migrant students in the classroom kyriotieleni https://padlet.com/kyriotieleni/qkngab04f0x1/wish/171603603
The Learning Objectives for this module are:
  1. Identifying preparatory steps for yourself and your class to welcome newly arrived migrant students
  2. Being aware of some of the specific needs of newly arrived migrant students and how they can impact your classroom work
  3. Understanding when to look for external support
  4. Developing some specific classroom activities that can support newly arrived migrant students
  5. Identifying strategies and activities to facilitate the language learning of newly arrived migrant students
  6. Understanding the importance of building trust between newly arrived migrant students and your other students and how to foster a community spirit in your class
  7. Develop a development plan with concrete steps to prepare or improve the work in your classroom and at whole school level with newly arrived migrant students
  8. Review the development plans of 2 of your peers
 
2.1 Preparing yourself and your class for arrival of newly arrived migrant students
  • Building a refugee support system
Teachers need to get professional development to    understand students' background, experiences and feelings.

Students need time to adjust to the new environment and educational system. If they fail, it is probably due to their lack of schooling and not because of lack of skills.

  • How to prepare yourself and  manage expectations
Try to understand students' background - refugee students are in many ways different than our students.

Visit the place (for example the shelter) students live, meet their parents and get to know where they come from, what was school in their country like etc.

  •  How to prepare yourself and your “regular students” to welcome the newly arrived migrant students
a) get information about the newcoming students (age, country, schooling experience)
b) prepare material for the students (notebooks, pencils, material that will help them learn to read)
c) prepare information for the parents or the people who take care of the children
d) plan in advance
prepare the classroom (for example decoration ) and sensitize students about the situation of the refugees
e) make the new student feel welcome
learn to spell and pronounce students' name
introduce new students to class
use a map to show where the students' country is
learn a few basic words or sentances in students language
be a model of respect towards new students

2.3 Supporting specific needs of newly arrived migrant students
 It is important to know your own boundaries of ability and responsibility and it is not your job to solve these issues for your students, it is essential that you know where you can refer them to the external support they need.

  • find contacts that can support you in your  work with students (pshycologists, translators,social workers)
  • If newcoming students are traumatized it is not the teachers' job to help them. However there are a few things we can do in class so that they will feel safe         
       a) create a safety islands:  rules, ceremonies, daily                          programme, non violent atmosphere in class (avoid 
             music,sounds,pictures that stress them)
       b) use concentration and breathing excercises to help
            students relax when they feel stresssed or scared
        c) students should create a strong relationship with a
         person they trust outside the family
        d) let them feel it is ok no matter how they feel (angry,
            aggressive, afraid)
       e) let them see beautiful things (pictures, videos, music,
            experience beautiful situations (visit nature))
       g) find out their competencies and skills
       h)  let them dream and paint their future
       i) don't ask them to speak about their past

2.4 Classroom activities to support newly arrived migrant students

“The More-Than-Just-Surviving Handbook: ELL for Every Classroom Teacher” - a useful place to get started

Resources :

2.6 Supporting newly arrived migrant students with language learning

  • morning ceremony
  • teach classroom vocabulary
  • help them find a friend
  • let students speak their mother language
  • let them create dictionaries
  • let them use online dictionaries (google translate)
  • make them proud about their language competencies (other languages they speak)

2.7 How to foster community building in the classroom

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