Migrants and Refugees in Education: A toolkit for teachers
Learn how to teach and support young people across the globe affected by violence, conflict, or displacement.
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Migrants and Refugees in Education: A toolkit for teachers
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Find out how to help students dealing with trauma
On this course, you’ll hear from experienced teachers on the challenges of refugee education.
They’ll share experiences of what they’ve learned and strategies they’ve used when teaching migrant learners both in countries affected by conflict and in host countries.
Whether you’re a language teacher, a teacher of another subject, or a volunteer working in migrant and refugee education, you’ll find ideas and strategies that you can use to better understand your learners.
You’ll also learn how to build inclusive classrooms and develop your learners’ confidence, taking into account the languages they know and their cultures.
Syllabus
Week 1
Conflict in context: local responses to global migrations
Mobility, movement and motivation
Consider what it means to be a refugee or migrant learning in a new cultural context. Explore inclusion, integration and discrimination and how you can help learners overcome the challenges faced after migration or conflict
Dealing with displacement and discrimination
Consider different types of displacement, and reflect on how learners cope with discrimination in their new host countries and how you can reduce the impact of negative stereotypes
Language and integration
Think about the many different ways we use language in schools and communities. Consider how our learning changes throughout our lifetime, and the importance of valuing different language abilities (in school and out of school)
Review
Watch one of the educators giving a summary of this week and reflect on what you've learnt
Week 2
Planning, managing and designing activities
Education systems
Consider the different systems and programmes that we find in conflict, post-conflict and re-settlement settings across the world and how teachers create and adapt materials in these settings
Mixed ability classes and social inclusion
How to provide supportive as well as challenging activities for learners of different levels and educational backgrounds, to create a more inclusive learning environment
Lifelong learning and collaborative learning
Think about how learning happens at different stages of our lives and often in collaboration with others. Consider the importance, particularly for newcomers, of working with others through shared talk and problem-solving
Review
Watch the Facebook Live discussion from this week and reflect on what you've learnt
Week 3
Primary and secondary school students
The skills of a good learner in the primary classroom
Consider the skills required to be a good learner in a primary school classroom and why children who have experienced trauma, displacement and conflict might not develop them
Understanding the effects on the brain
Learn about the developments in neuroscience on the working of the brain and how these explain the effects of trauma on learning and behaviour in class
Planning to teach learners social and emotional skills
Consider how you can plan your teaching to support learners who have not developed the skills needed to settle to learn
Understanding secondary learners
Consider the challenges of transitions, changes and outside pressures on secondary age learners and strategies for addressing their challenging behaviour
Review
Watch one of the educators summarising some of the main talking points from this week and reflect on this week's learning
Week 4
Protective factors for teachers and learners
Practising self-care and managing teacher wellbeing
Consider the concept of well-being and why it is important for teachers
Creating supportive classrooms for learners who have experienced trauma
Consider the concept of the classroom as a protective factor in supporting learners who have experienced trauma
Developing peer support and networking
Consider how to expand your professional support network and share useful websites for teaching
Review
Watch the educators saying their goodbyes and reflect on learning from this week and the course as a whole
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Learning on this course
You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Describe the causes, patterns and impact of migration on teaching and learning
- Develop a profile of your learners and consider strategies to engage and include them
- Apply a set of practical tools and techniques in the classroom environment to better cope with the impact of trauma on teachers and learners
Who is the course for?
The course will be useful for anyone working with migrants and refugees in an educational context.
This can range from those teaching English to refugees to teachers in schools looking to promote inclusive education.
Who will you learn with?
I’m an English teacher and teacher trainer. I’m interested in online learning/teaching and pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures particularly in refugee/immigrant contexts
Who developed the course?
British Council
The British Council is on the ground in six continents and over 100 countries connecting the best of UK culture with a global audience and providing high-quality English language courses.
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
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- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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