Integration of Immigrant Students into Education

All the participants will:

• Learn about different policies used in integration of immigrant students
• Be aware of the possible problems the immigrants students faced and the possible solutions to these problems
• Understand the relevance of immigrant students’ achievement and their backgrounds
• Develop a school policy to integrant immigrant students successfully
• Be aware of the roles of other skate holders at local, national and international levels
• Find out the possible ways to prevent the discrimination at schools
• Find out best ways to create multicultural and peaceful environments at schools

• Understanding the different policies related to immigrant students in different education systems
• Understanding the nature, causes and possible remedies for the educational disadvantages experienced by immigrant students in schools
• Seeing the relevance of immigrant students’ achievement and socio-economic origin of the country they migrate
• Realizing the importance of early childhood education and care to adopt the immigrant students to the education system and the society they live in
• Developing a school policy plan on Integrating immigrant students to the schools
• Getting aware of the roles of some other skate holders such as NGOs, governors, etc to overcome the obstacles the immigrant students and their families face during the education process
• Working on the ways to prevent the discrimination at the schools the immigrant students attend
• Tips for how to develop strategies to improve the educational quality of the school
• Creating a forum to be linked to the webpage of the course provider in order to share the personal experiences in applying the strategies learnt through the course at their venue.

• Presentation
• Discussion
• Brainstorming
• Role playing
• Case study
• Developing plans and policies

• Teachers, trainers, educators, school administrators, policy makers, etc.

Before the course

• A detailed pre-course questionnaire to indicate the level of experience, teaching backgrounds and training will be completed by participants.
• The participants will also prepare a presentation to reflect their own teaching method.

• A course participation certificate will be given to all participants.
• A Europass Mobility Certificate will be given if the participants demand.

• Getting to know each other
• Presentation of participant organizations (a five-minute presentation)
• Key Issues and Concerns about the course
• The situation of immigrant students in the education system
• Explaining underachievement
• The Current System of All The Participant Countries Will Be Mentioned And Evaluated
  (positive and negative points, recognizing and solving the problems)
• Understanding the integration, inclusion and importance concepts in multiculturalism education.
• Understanding multiculturalism
• Teamwork: understanding the perspective of others in communication.

• Dealing with cultural differences
• Desegregation policies and measures
• Mentoring: actors & methods
• Best practices, rules, ways etc. for adoption to class
• How teachers can plan their intercultural curriculum and lesson plans?
• Importance of intercultural communication
• Policies and measures at schools
• The teacher-student relationship
• The school and its environment
• Observing classes from Europe which has immigrant student.

• Crisis-management between students and teachers and
• teachers and families
• Early education programs
• Early childhood programs for language learning in immigrant families
• Providing supportive and multi-cultural school environment for all students.
• Planning follow up activities, dissemination and implementation of learning outcomes.

• The ways of understanding and overcoming emotional and psychological problems of immigrant children
• Teachers and preschool educators: roles and training,
• Providing supportive and multi-cultural school environment for all students.
• Planning follow up activities, dissemination and implementation of learning outcomes.

• Developing school policies to support peaceful and multicultural classes
• Overview of the course program
• Evaluation of the course program
• Filling the feedback forms
• Europass Mobility Certificate and Participation Certificate
• Ceremony of Certification