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Integration of immigrants students

Guideline for Head Teachers

1. Current trends

A large part of school dropout is due to the immigrant students’ integration problem – that is a challenge to be addressed as a top priority by our educational policies.
Our schools are more and more multicultural and diversity is clearly a key for future sustainability.
Yet, most schools do not have a clear strategy to integrate immigrant students and there is an urgent need for this handicap to be overcome.
Successful adaptations among immigrant students appear to be linked to the quality of the relationships that they forge in their school settings which renders critical the role of the school leader, the headteacher.
There is a consensus that schools should welcome and orient newcomers, enhance language skills of those with limited proficiency, and connect families with neighbourhood services as much as feasible.

Publications From the School Safety Net Portal

Immigration-integration of migrants
Report, written by Vasileios Pantazis (Greece), on the multifaceted issue of modern migration and integration processes of immigrants and children of immigrants in Greek society and the Greek school.
Intercultural skills at school: between diversity and equality,
The authors, Audrey Heine and Laurent Licata (Belgium), address the concept of intercultural skills and the importance for the members of educational teams to be able to use those skills.
Plan for providing education of immigrant students in the autonomous community of Andalusia
Written by Junta de Andalucía (Spain).

Training Sources From the School Safety Net Portal

Integrating Immigrant Children into Schools in Europe
EACEA Eurydice.
PISA - Untapped Skills: Realising the Potential of Immigrant Students
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Do immigrant students succeed? Evidence from Italy and France based on PISA 2006
Marina Murat, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy).
DASPA, Service to welcome and educate newly arrived students
Ministry of compulsory education – Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgium).

Success Stories From the School Safety Net Portal

Arrival of a new headteacher and setting up of an “internal reschooling device
A success story in Belgium.
Success of a newly-arrived student
A success story in Belgium.

Legislative Documents

Education in the “Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles” (Belgium)
Decree organising differentiated supervision in the schools of the French-speaking Community to offer every student equal chances of social development in a quality educational environment.

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.