Oliveira Do Bairro 16- 20 June 2010

Lifelong Learning Programme

Comenius

MINT “Mind the Gap –

Migration Needs Integration”,

1) RELATION STUDENT<>TEACHER

a) Knowing student’s migration background (biography)

b)Understanding student’s main problems (interview)

c)Bringing the student to a self-esteem feeling (recognition of his/her competences)

d) Tutoring the student in the host country’s language learning (language courses)

2) RELATION TEACHER<>TEACHER a) Planning together a welcome step

(placement of migrant students in classes; avoid classes with migrant predominance)

b)identifying strategies and tools to fill in social and cultural gaps in classes (communicative approach)

c) Building together simplified worksheets in the school subjects ( crosscurricular approach)

d)Evaluating the on-going of the work (debates)

3)RELATION STUDENT<>STUDENT (emotional involvement)

a)Taking diversity as an opportunity to open to all differences (no racial or cultural prejudice)

b) Sharing school activities (sport, drama) c) Working in pairs or groups (closer

relationship) d) Sharing rules (equal rights and duties)

4)CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE (partners and friends)

a)Seeing the classroom as a microcosm where different cultures live (democratic cohabitation)

b)Giving migrant students the chance to talk about their experience, attitudes and wishes in the host country (dialogue)

c) Understanding the problems of migrated peers (help and kindness)

d)Sharing outschool activities (going to the cinema and to parties ,inviting home)

5)SUBJECTS (intercultural topics) a) Planning meetings on topics such

as religion, customs, traditions (help of experts and culture mediators)

b)Equipping a multiethnic classroom where to welcome migrant families and to keep all the material necessary for integration (maps, dictionaries, information cards)

c) Providing native students with a basic knowledge in the migrant peers’ language (migrant students as tutors)

6) SOCIAL WORK (building social networks)

a) Planning activities that involve social commitment (ex. environment protection by cleaning parks, beaches)

b) Interacting with Immigrant Support Centre (help to workless migrant parents)

7) RELATION SCHOOL <>PARENTS (families in action)

a) Involving migrant families in the welcome step and meeting them regularly during the year (information and orientation)

b) improving communication with them(courses in the host country’s language)

c) Allowing them to take part in school activities ex. sewing dress, building furniture or painting the stage background for a multiethnic show to be performed at the end of the school year

d) providing education for adult immigrants (ex. handmade work,creative writing )

8) RELATION SCHOOL-COMPANIES (cooperation)

a) Getting migrant students to know the local economic system (guided visits to companies)

b)Helping their personal ,social and professional development (work experiences with companies)

9) SCHOOL PROFILE (opportunities for everyone)

a)- limiting social deviance - preventing student drop out - helping students to be part of their social context

through well equipped spaces (language and

multimedia labs, theatre and music centres, leisure facilities such as swimming pools and football fields)

b) getting students to be European citizens (Chart

of European Rights )