This is the development plan I made for the MOOC "Integrating Newly Arrived Migrant Students in Schools"

1. Integrating Newly Arrived Migrants in Schools-Development Plan
Name: Magda Zervou Date: 13/12/2016
Email: zervou@sch.gr Name of school (optional): 6th
Primary School of Egaleo, Athens
Country: Greece Link to your Learning Diary: https://tackk.com/pud7v8
How to use this document
This document is simply provided as a basic template for you to plan your actions to help the integration of newly arrived migrants in your school or classroom. You can use it as a collaborative
document with peers or as your own planning sheet. Feel free to add, adapt or remove sections in order to make it as useful and relevant for your own purposes. You can focus on whole-
school issues or only on aspects that are relevant for your own classroom. You will be asked to submit this plan for peer review in the final activity of the course so please make sure you write in
English and try to ensure that the plan can be understood also from someone who does not know so much about your school.
This template will also help you to put your thoughts in order even if you are not sure if you will be able to implement all actions. You can use it to plan one more immediate action in detail
and also note other issues down that need to be tackled - even if this is a task that you cannot or do not want to tackle yourself.
After the course you could use the document, for example, to:
- Organize and prioritize your own next steps working with newly arrived migrant students
- Brainstorm with colleagues what actions/ support you need
- Discuss with your school management
- Involve external partners
Who can I/we work with?
Use this table to identify all the potential partners inside and outside of school that can support your work
Organisation/Colleague Focus of cooperation Contact
School Councillor Ways to cope with new situation, adjusting the Ministry guidelines Email, telephone
UNHCR Training materials, possibility for translators https://www.unhcr.gr/
IOM Office in Greece Training materials, possibility for translators https://greece.iom.int/

2. Action Plan
Issue / area of work Language support for pupils
Current situation Where do you want to get to? Steps / Actions to achieve this Who can
support this?
Timeframe /
Deadline
Whole-school: Refugee pupils only have special
language classes in the afternoon when other
students have finished their school day.
Classroom: No refugee pupils in the “regular”
classes.
Whole-school: We want refugee pupils to
be in the morning ‘regular’ classes with
some language support (language support
class for newcomers)
Classroom: We want refugee pupils to
acquire the language skills necessary for
everyday life in school
1. Contact local educational authority to ask for
the establishment of a language support class
in the school
2. Setup groups of pupils to assist refugee
pupils
3. Find volunteers within the staff members to
teach some extra hours
4. Contact parents to ask for volunteers for
afternoon language groups
Headteacher,
school teachers,
the parents’
council, local
educational
director
In 3 months
we should
achieve basic
communicatio
n language
skills
OPTIONAL Specific Actions (in this section you can identify in more detail specific steps for each of the steps/actions defined above
Contact local educational authority to ask for the
establishment of a language support class in the
school
A new teacher assigned to our school to
assist refugee pupils with language
learning
1. Arrange a meeting with educational director
to secure funding
2. If there is no funding for a new teacher, ask
for extra salary for the school staff
3. Contact the school councillor to explain the
need for a dedicated language support class
Headteacher,
school teachers,
local
educational
director, school
councillor
Setup groups of pupils to assist refugee pupils Refugee pupils will learn the language
more quickly when they are among their
peers in the school yard and in the
classroom
1. Split the refugee pupils among the class
(consider any siblings/relatives)
2. Group them with pupils who have good
knowledge of the language and are
communicative
3. Give the pupils groups a set of dialogues to
practise in and outside the classroom
School teachers,
school
councillor
Find volunteers within the staff members to teach
some extra hours
With 1 extra teaching hour for each
teacher per week, we can have around 14
hours of language support
1. If there is no extra funding for a new teacher,
discuss among the staff members who can
volunteer with 1 hour per week
2. Arrange a timetable with the volunteering
teachers
3. Organise refugee pupils in groups according
to their level of language acquisition
School teachers

3. Contact parents to ask for volunteers for afternoon
language groups (difficult, but one never knows! :)
We may find parents with adequate
training or other professionals related to
education who can teach afternoon
language classes
1. Meet with the parents council to arrange a
parents assembly
2. Collect availability from parents, if any
3. Arrange a timetable with the volunteering
parents
4. Organise refugee pupils in groups according
to their level of language acquisition
5. Arrange for a school teacher to be present
during the afternoon classes
Headteacher,
School teachers,
Parents council
COPY THE BELOW TABLE FOR AS MANY ISSUES/AREAS OF WORK YOU NEED:
Issue / area of work Social integration of refugee families
Current situation Where do you want to get to? Steps / Actions to achieve this Who can
support this?
Timeframe /
Deadline
Whole-school: Refugee pupils come to school when
morning classes have finished; they meet only a
few pupils who stay in the afternoon classes
Classroom: there is no interaction with other pupils
because they are in different classrooms
Whole-school: we’d like the school to
embrace and integrate refugee children
Classroom: we’d like to have the refugees
following the regular classes according to
their age
1. Arrange an informative event for parents
2. Organise multicultural events in school
3. Apply to educational authorities to include
refugees in regular classes
School teachers,
Parents council,
Educational
authorities,
Teachers
association
The events
must last until
the end of the
school year
Specific Actions
Arrange an informative event for parents School parents should be well-informed of
the current refugee situation to eliminate
any discrimination phenomena
1. Headteacher and teachers decide on the
date, time, issues to present
2. Inform the parents council
3. Invite the school parents and insure their
presence
Headteacher,
School teachers
Organise multicultural events in school (culinary
evenings, folklore music and dance evenings, etc)
Families will have the chance to see
cultural aspects of other countries and find
commonalities
1. Headteacher, teachers, and parents council
decide on the date, time, topics
2. The Parents council contact some parents to
present something according to the topic
3. The headteacher contacts refugee families
to present something according to the topic
4. Contact mayor and local authorities to
participate
Headteacher,
School teachers,
Parents council

4. Apply to educational authorities to include refugees
in regular classes
Integration model of newly arrived
refugees in non-separate classes
1. School teachers compose a document
stating the educational reasons to integrate
refugees in regular classes
2. The headteacher arranges a meeting with
educational authorities and school
councillor to give the document
Headteacher,
School teachers