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Project description

Recent migration waves in Europe have posed a significant challenge, especially for schools, which take on the dual responsibility of integrating migrant students and ensuring their education. Many educational institutions face the challenge of recruiting newcomer students, and the language barrier often complicates collaboration with local communities. This project aims to address these challenges by training a team of “young interpreters” in the primary education setting, who will use their language skills in the “official” school environment. The project focuses on supporting the transfer of good practice to develop a model that harnesses the bilingual and multilingual skills of young learners in primary education. This will be carried out by: Developing a challenge framework to implement a “young performers” programme. Creation of a recognition system for your skills. Support for the inclusion and linguistic development of newcomers. Support for family participation in their children’s education.

Project objectives

Identify up to 20 priority communication needs for recently arrived immigrant students and their parents. Create a set of training materials to support the “young performers” plan. Create a badge accreditation system to recognize performance of “challenges.” Recruit 120 young interpreters in 5 countries in a maximum of 10 languages. Pilot, test, evaluate and refine training and accreditation in 2 schools in each of the 5 countries. Identify and use tools to evaluate impact, including data and feedback from students, teachers and parents. Create a set of case studies for each country. Broadly disseminate the results and create a network of interested organizations.

Project results

  • Report on the 20 priority needs of newly admitted immigrant students in the context of their school and host country. Work scheme model based on these needs in terms of challenges, structured in three levels of complexity and insignia. Three-level accreditation model in the form of badges that rewards the achievement of challenges. Set of training modules for teachers and non-teaching staff working with young performers, supported by an online manual. Set of practical cases that demonstrate the program in action in each of the 5 countries.
Dr. Michael Brown

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