welcome to the uk project bringing the outside in workshop
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Welcome to the UK projectBringing the outside in workshop
Bringing the outside in
Using what learners tell us about ‘integration’; their lives, hopes and feelings about settling in the UK to:
• inform courses, activities, events and workshops
• build links with people, places and organisations inside and outside the classroom.
YOGA: Yes, I am very happy and i did enjoy it. Also I will try that at home. It’s healthy for body
FIRE SAFETY: I’m grateful for info... we enjoyed the fire engine.
Brilliant and the firemen were very informative.
Giving good information which some people did not know about
FOOD SAFETY: Kids loved the clean hand demo.Good awareness of healthy food
What ‘integration’ can mean to learners
“I know a lot of things, I can argue a lot of topics, but it’s all inside. This is a
terrible stage ... I don’t want to watch life ... I need to, more English to explain how I feel, what I think.”
“You can do many things you can't do it in your country, for
example to say what you want... if you don't like
something you can ... say I don't like this, it’s very important to have your
freedom, to feel like human”.
“because of the help of studying English like ESOL ... I can reach
people ... who live here for long time, so I feel I’m in a part of this country ... I can
relate to other people”
What does integration mean to learners? At your tables, discuss:
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2. What do learners want to do?
1. What does integration feel like?
3. What can help learners feel a sense of belonging?
Bringing the outside in and building links from the classroom:
courses/topics/activities in the classevents/workshops/trips for the group people/places/organisations to signpost/accompany learners to
Same life aim, three different journeysIn your groups, draw a river illustrating one of the possiblejourneys for a newly-arrived woman who wants to study law:
A. Gets a lot of support B. Gets some support C. Gets little or no support
Identify some achievable goals on each river www.reflect-action.org/reflectesol
