New Pupils in our classesThe integration of newly arrived migrants in daily school life  

We make our students aware of the situation of newly

arrived migrants

• Personal Storytelling • Videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/unicef/videos• Where do refugees come from

http://migration.iom.int/europe/ • What means to flee – to be on the run (acitivites)• https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com

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http://bit.ly/etwin16pilid

Welcome in my class –First 9 steps

• Be prepared. • Have both materials and ideas on hand,

“just in case.” • Have a welcoming classroom. • Sensitize the class. • Make the student feel welcome. • Make sure you know how to pronounce

and spell the student’s name. • Introduce the student to the class. • If possible, learn a few words and phrases

in the student’s native language.• Be a model of respect for the other students

in the class.

Barbara Law and Mary Ackes (2010): The More-Than-Just-Surviving-Handbook: ELL for Every Classroom Teacher

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Languages“In a new class, where nobody speaks or understands your language you feel like an Alien” (Syrian Boy)

• Find out the level oft the new pupil’s mother tongue

• Let pupils speak in their mother tongue during the breaks (Children should be proud of their language competences.)

• Try to find a word for things in class in each language known in your classroom (let them feel that they are important for the class)

• Let kids learn the languages of their classmates (basic words, phrases)

• Connect every word every text with a real thing (emotions, face)

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Languages• Find a language – buddy•

Every morning kind of ceremony

• Use dictionaries online

• Let the kids create picture dictionary (phonetic spelling)

• Let them do a presentation with a partner about things they like, they are experts (bilingual)

• Childrens‘ songs

• Learning by heart hort rhymes

Links about language learning in multilingual classes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzoKIHMRjRMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugaxWBVf3Kg 

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What do NAMboys and girls like to do in

their leisure time„My hairdresser‘s recommandations“ • Sports, active games outdoors and indoors • Drawing and painting (expression without words)• Computer gaming / http://visioneducation.net/ve-football/• Activities in small groups / competition games• Music, singing, dancing, ring an ring a roses (shake hands)

– dancing in a circle, simple children’s rhimes (heads shoulders knees and toes)

• Exchange youtubes with favourite pop songs or other music (karaoke)

• Pets (classdog, classcat)• storytelling – pantomime (traumatized kids)• Playing theater – http://improwiki.com/en/wikis

(encyclopedia) - group games, trusting games, team games

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TraumaWe cannot really do the work of psychologists, but

we should know where we can find help for obvious traumatized children

• they do not speak• they do not want to have any contact with

others• they start to cry, get aggressive without any

warning • they seem to be stressed all the time• they are extremely nervous• cannot concentrate (because they relive the

traumatic situation if there is a sound, a smell, a color, a word … that reminds them of this situation)

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Trauma • What can we do for this children in class:

• School=safe and secure place

• “islands of safety” – clear structures

• arrange or take care for a non violent atmosphere

• To feel safe inside to become quiet and to relax: o Breathing concentration exercises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9jmO6xwFfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9jmO6xwFfs

• Rrelationship has a strong protective factor (“most important person” – outside the family)

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Trauma 

• “I am ok” - strengthen or “repair” the self confidence

• positive and beautiful experiences (pictures, smiles, music, landscape, clouds, animals)

• resources of the pupils (special competences)

• reflect on the future (dreams, visions, wishes)

• if a NAMpupil wants to tell his story, let him tell it, but never force a child to do it.

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Outcomes From an eTwinning learning event• Handout Recomendations: eTwinning evente

o The Integration of refugees in daily school lifehttps://learninglab.etwinning.net/18961/home

o http://bit.ly/etwin16rec

• Support in Our Countries:o http://bit.ly/etwin16sup

(With etwinning account only)

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Interesting Links • http://academy.schooleducationgateway .eu/en_US/web/raising-awareness-about-the-situation-of-newly-arrived -migrants• http://www.unhcr.org

• http://www.epim.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Forward-Together-Ideas-for-working-with-asylum-seekers-refugees-the-media-and-communities.pdf

• http://www.epim.info/about-us/the-partner-foundations/

• https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/search-results?i=1;m_sort_education_resource=resource_date;q=*;q1=Resources;q2=English;q3=7-11;show_all=education;x1=page_type;x2=pub_language;x3=age_range

• https://www.oxfam.org

• https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/education/2015/10/8-educational-resources-to-better-understand-the-refugee-crisis/

• http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/what_we_do/childrens_services/youth_activities_and_educational_services

• http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/Teaching-resources/Lesson-plans/Refugee-week-2015

• http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/publications/news/educational-activities-for-refugees-in-balkans

• http://voxmi.at

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Thanks for your attention!

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