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Integration of immigrants students

Guideline for Head Teachers

6. Approaches and Strategies

Mobilise and involve all school and community actors.
Create school and community answers to the immigrant students’ needs and expectations.
Develop in schools a welcoming policy for the immigrant students: making a tour of the school, explaining the organisation of the studies, courses and diploma, informing students on the rules and values of the school, informing them on the people they can turn to in case of problems or questions.
Give immigrant students adjusted curricular and extra-curricular solutions - establishing specific assistance for newly-arrived students, adapting the educational practices and reinforcing the language development and the acquisition of the national language.
Implement a mediation or conflict resolution program, when problems arise.
Engage students of all ethnicities in projects, exercises and learning workshops that allow the achievements and rich heritages of each culture represented to be explored.

Publications From the School safety Net Portal

School Practices and Equity
The study, written by Benoît De Waele (Belgium) and published by (SeGEC), explores local experiences to find out practices that could lead to a school dynamics that is favourable to school results.
When school lessons are different from home lessons: a psychosocial approach to Muslim immigrants’ children’s relations to knowledge
This article, written by Audrey Heine, Nicolas Van der Linden, Charlotte van den Abeele and Laurent Licata (Belgium), addresses the construction of relations to knowledge among young people with a Muslim immigrant background.
An Intercultural School – Citizenship, participation and interaction: the resources of a multicultural society
Article written by Aluisi Tosolini, Simone Giusti, Gabriella Papponi Morelli (Italy).

Training Sources From the School safety Net Portal

Strategies for Success: Engaging Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools
This digest, written by Aída Walqui and West Ed (San Francisco, California), discusses 10 principles for developing effective teaching and learning contexts for immigrants adolescents and profiles one program that has been successful in promoting the academic success of its students by implementing these principles.
DASPA, Service to welcome and educate newly arrived students
Ministry of compulsory education – Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgium).

Websites

Les défis de l'intégration à l'école
Recommendations of the High Council for Integration on religious expression in the spaces.
Donner la parole aux jeunes
Report on ill-accompanied children by the general delegate for children’s rights in French-speaking Belgium, November 2011 (Belgium)

Index

20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.