Course 2
Pupil mobility and New Arrivals in UK schools
Course Code: Half day only: NA/PM/hd (Morning or Afternoon)
Who should attend?
All interested educators, teachers, practitioners and teaching assistants and support staff.
Content
This course highlights the pupil mobility of New Arrivals and in particular refugee and asylum-seeking children, their journeys from pre-, during and post-migration to finding school places in schools in England. Furthermore, their interrupted learning and the ‘grey’ areas of their learning, which may or may not contribute to barriers to learning, will be explored. Aims
The course aims to discuss the following issues:
- Nature and causes of mobility
- impact of mobility on school and pupil capacity
- school factors, past learning experiences and quality of education
- record, tracking and transferring of records
- assessment
- process of admission
- implications of mobility for pupils, schools, parents and future
education
- developing and maintaining an effective inclusive induction
programme
- supporting migrant learners.
Contact us for a booking form and course dates or download our Training Course Dates for 2008
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Course 3
Do you know who I am?
Course Code: Half day only: DIA/NA/hd (Morning or Afternoon)
Who should attend?
We would recommend that teaching assistants and support staff would particularly benefit from this course, but it is suitable to all interested educators, teachers, practitioners and teaching assistants and support staff.
The ‘Do you know who I am?’ course is based on Cilel Smith‘s book and the finding of her PhD research on the learning experiences of refugee children and New Arrivals learning experiences pre-,during and post-migration in UK schools. Aims
The course aims to discuss the following issues:
Content
The aims of this course are to expand the knowledge of teachers and support teachers on the following areas:
- Establishing prior learning.
- Barriers to learning.
- Integration and inclusion.
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- Profiling and establish school preparedness of New Arrivals.
- Educational and learning experiences of New Arrivals.
- Developing an ‘anchor’ for target setting.
- Assessment, tracking, target setting and profiling New Arrivals.
- Developing portfolios.
- General experience and background to countries, school systems and
life in countries of origin and host countries before arrival in the UK.
An exciting interactive course with case studies, teachers and support staff providing their own stories and input into the course and hand on experience in developing profiles and portfolios for New Arrivals.
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