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British Council

Migrants and Refugees in Education: A toolkit for teachers

British Council via FutureLearn

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Overview

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.

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.

Taught by

Kate Sandars

Reviews

4.8 rating, based on 152 Class Central reviews

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  • Anonymous
    Hello. I would like to reassure you that I have truly enjoyed the course. I think the articles and the clips have been very carefully chosen and they are very engaging and thought provoking. This course has helped me reflect on my own teaching strategies, and on what might be missing in my lessons. It gave me ideas on how to improve my lessons to make them more beneficial for the learners. It provided me with more in depth information about the notion of being a refugee and what problems and issues they might be facing when they come to settle in a new country.
  • The Course is very important curing the main case the education but we have also take care for internally refugees in their education and social life and relating them with their family for psychological health
  • Lynette Dias
    The course was interesting and informative, with lots of practical suggestions and resources provided by both the course creators and fellow students. Claire did an excellent job summarizing each week's content and highlighting useful comments/discussion threads, besides providing thoughtful responses to participants' comments.
  • Anonymous
    10/10 recommend this course to all educators! It's a self-paced professional development that will help you become a better educator for students with trauma backgrounds.
  • Anonymous
    The structure of the course highly appeals to me. The combination of the videos and articles is a resourceful and forseful fusion. Grateful for the opportunity for the feedback and the possibility to view the ideas of the other participants. The topic touched is urgent and vital nowadays. XXIst century generation is still a traumatised society due to the minor wars, regional millitary conflicts, neo-colonialism, internal immigration. The world has opened its borders and the classes became multicultural. In a globalised society we need to learn how to respect the representatives of different nations and how to work effectively with the learners from various background.
  • Anonymous
    I had to go through this course very quickly because the end date was looming and I would have to start paying for it! However, it was a fantastic course, and I have made notes and copied links so that I can go back over these things at my leisure. I loved the fact that there were so many contributors from so many different parts of the world , and from many different situations. I felt a little guilty that I didn't have time to contribute to the comments, but would like to thank everybody else for their time and effort.
    The course covered such a lot, and inspired me to think creatively.
    Thank you
  • Anonymous
    I've been very grateful for the last two weeks and looking forward for week 3. I've learnt a lot from this course, such as: how to help learners with difficulties overcome the challenges, how to reduce the impact of negative stereotypes, how to value/adapt learners' L1 in the classroom, how to create collaborative learning, and how to foster autonomy... and there are still so much to discover in the following week! The most important is that we have learnt how to develop a supportive learning environment for migrants and refugees.
  • Anonymous
    A tantalising course that opens one’s mind and opens possibilities. Many websites, videos, reviews which in 4 weeks, I cannot attempt to accomplish but appreciate their existence.
    The thought of empathy teaching is particularly appealing to me as stereotyping bias is an anathema to me. However, I have never encountered a better way to quell it. It won’t happen overnight...but I hope it will happen.
    Maybe this covid19 will help a world society to germinate.
  • Nicoleta Bilan
    This course has helped me to understand what strategies can be used in classroom when working with refugees students or children who immigrated into UK. Also a better understanding of their behaviour will enable me to prepare better lessons adapted to their needs.

    Nowadays, in this world context it is crucial to understand and offer the best support we can, to the pupils in need of learning English and to get them adapted to a new society.

    with a new culture than theirs.

    The shared experiences of my colleagues gave me new and great ideas of approaching and introducing new teaching methods.

    I would definitely recommend this course to every person involved into educational sector.
  • Anonymous
    I thought that the course was very good - full of really valuable ideas, information and resources. It has greatly enhanced my knowledge of relevant issues and introduced me to some really interesting concepts and approaches to migrant and refugee…
  • Anonymous
    It is a thorough course with insight into many aspects of what to expect in most scenarios of English-learning. There is a broad scope of what is seen, the theory and mixture of experience others have had. Although I have had some pratice in this area, I am learning a great deal more with those in similar teaching positions and their experiences.
  • Anonymous
    This is the first time online course for me. I am enjoying very much, I introduced new way of teaching method. Many of learners throughout their point of view that's another parts of understand. Hope we are knowing better things after completing the course. Have a nice journey..

    With Regards,

    Tauhid.
  • Anonymous
    It's been a fantastic course and I couldn't have asked for more. I will certainly study more on the aspect of Resilience for the Learner as well as myself as Teacher. A peep into the Neurotransmitters was great and how I can try to cater to the Oxytocin, etc. It's a pity that it was just for four weeks. Thanks.
  • Anonymous
    I am very thankful first of all for this platform as I am getting an opportunity to learn sitting in my home country and getting to learn so much from people belonging from different parts of the world.

    It is a very interactive way of learning and sharing.

    Thank you so much.

    Regards Teresa.
  • Anonymous
    Im really enjoying and appreciate that in week two there are more videos and examples of the applications of the teaching in real world setting across the globe. At the moment I am torn as to whether to comment that 3hrs for a lesson is too long.…
  • Gillian Hull
    Although I've been teaching a long time now, this course is very refreshing with so much input from teachers and learners. It is making me reflect on how I have used approaches creatively in the past and how I can improve on these in the future. I am more aware of how learners can express what they already know and what they want to know in the future. In other words, this course is making my choices more future directed, for what the learners are hoping for in their own future,
  • Anonymous
    I find that the Course offers a lot of additional materials/links, etc., which are 'gold mines'. I'd like to know more on how to enroll for a course that deals with details of the Reflect Approach to Teaching.
  • Anonymous
    Very interesting course. I particularly liked the sharing of resources and experiences between participants.
    Lot's of food for thought and implications for future practice.
    I think the strategies for helping teachers and learners cope with difficult situations was especially helpful.
    Thanks very much!
  • Anonymous
    Although I am not teaching a whole class at the moment and work mainly with individuals, I want to develop confidence and skills to work in a wider range of settings with refugees and migrants. Your course has already helped me become more confident…
  • Anonymous
    Useful course in nowadays reality. Thanks a lot for the information. Iliked the whole course,especially, about Using drama and songs on the lessons.
    very important topic abot trauma and kids agression were open adn explained.
    Much thanks to the authors ane British council!

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