How can we help refugees in the classroom?
What You Can Do to Support Refugee Students
- Learn about your students.
- Help students and families find resources they need.
- Get to know the families by having regular meetings.
- Remember that students may be under a lot of stress.
- Integrate the students’ cultural and country information into your weekly classroom routines.
What can teachers do to help refugee students?
Educators can help refugee students in the healing process by working with them to establish healthy relationships and safe spaces in schools where positive interactions, acceptance, unconditional regard, and kind words are the norm.
How can schools help refugee children?
The following tips and related resources can help educators meet the unique needs of refugee students.
- Understand and recognize stressors.
- Understand the effect of trauma on school functioning.
- Equip staff to provide trauma sensitive responses and supports.
- Understand the challenges of relocation and acculturation.
What challenges do refugees face at school?
Bullying, Teasing, and Discrimination Developing positive peer relationships is crucial, yet refugee students may have difficulties making friends in schools. They might be teased and bullied for differences in how they speak, dress, or look, or for behaviors unfamiliar to U.S. students.
How do you make a refugee feel welcome at school?
Prepare for refugees’ arrival well in advance. Stimulate pupils’ interest in their situation and what might make them feel welcome. Help refugees learn the host language – a powerful form of support. Welcome families too, perhaps by sharing an “international” meal.
How do you welcome refugees in school?
Send clear communications to all parents that your school welcomes all children and is refugee-friendly. Explain the actions that the school is taking to ensure that pupils joining the school, who are refugees, and their families, feel welcome, safe and supported.
How do I make refugees feel welcome at school?
Utilise the Skills of other Children
- Utilise the Skills of other Children.
- • arrange for introductions to any other. same-language pupils and families;
- Create a ‘climate’ in which refugee. children feel welcome and valued.
- Schools can do this by: • being sensitive to religious observances and.
- Make the curriculum accessible.
Why should children learn about refugees?
Understanding the human cost of war, violence and persecution through testimonies and telling refugee stories is a powerful tool to ‘put a face on the numbers’ and better understand the disruption, stress and loss associated with being displaced.
Why is it important to teach children about refugees?
Help young people challenge assumptions about migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and to develop mutual respect, empathy and understanding.
How do you welcome a refugee student?
Welcoming Refugee Children into Early Childhood Classrooms
- Prepare to greet the children.
- Create play experiences that do not require English.
- Familiarize families with classrooms.
- Connect with related community cultural groups.
- Meeting emotional needs.
- Establish one-on-one time with children who are refugees.
Why is refugee education Important?
Education protects refugee children and youth from forced recruitment into armed groups, child labour, sexual exploitation and child marriage. Education also strengthens community resilience. Education empowers by giving refugees the knowledge and skills to live productive, fulfilling and independent lives.