welcome to the refugee teachers network conference, 2009
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Welcome to the
Refugee Teachers Network
Conference, 2009
Aims of the conference:
1. Share ideas from organisations around the UK on
how best to support overseas-trained (refugee)
teachers
RITeS (Refugees into Teaching in Scotland)
Leeds Metropolitan University
Institute of Education (London)
Education Leeds andRefugee New Arrivals Project (Sheffield)
2. Help and support individual teachers that have attended today
Manchester Metropolitan University
STTORMM
Barnardo’s North WestRefugees into Teaching
Teachers from Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle
Aims of the conference:
3. Make recommendations to the Refugee Teachers’ Task Force
Employability Forum Refugee Council
- How can we increase enrolment of ‘refugee teachers’ onto ITT programmes?
- How can ITT providers continue to support overseas-trained (refugee) teachers – without TDA funding?
- How can we engage schools to take on refugees as unqualified teachers, TAs, volunteers?
- Which models from Scotland, London, Leeds, and Sheffield can be recreated here in the North West?
Questions to think about…
Aims of the conference:
1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network
June – Refugees into TeachingConference…
Leeds
SheffieldHull
Liverpool
Manchester
Bristol
London
Lincoln
Leicester
Huddersfield
Newcastle
1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network
June – Refugees into Teachingconference
September –Yorkshire and Humberside Network ‘steering group’ set up:
RETASEducation Leeds
Leeds Metropolitan UniversityRefugee New Arrivals Project (Sheffield)
Refugee Council HullTrinity College, Leeds
B-NETTSheffield Hallam University
TC21TDA
Yorkshire and Humberside Network ‘steering group’ set up…
1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network
November – January,Familiarisation course – Leeds Metropolitan University
Familiarisation course – Leeds…
1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network
November -Manchester ‘Network’ meeting
Refugee ActionMARIMManchester Refugee ForumUrbisManchester City CouncilManchester Metropolitan University STTORMM
Sheffield course
Sheffield Hallam UniversityRNAP
Liverpool course
John Moore’s UniversityMRSN Liverpool Council
Cross-Curricular day
GTP open evening
Post-course support, Leeds…Interest in North East
MERIT
Course?
Post-course support, Leeds…
1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network
Joint evening event for ‘refugee teachers’ –Trinity College / B-NETT
PGCEs in Yorkshire and Humberside /
Employment-based routes to QTS
ESOL for Teachers course to be set up, September ‘09 (?)
- Thomas Danby College
Work-placements – Education Leeds
IELTS at RETAS
Degree top-up information event,Trinity
Leeds
SheffieldHull
Liverpool
Manchester
Bristol
London
Lincoln
Leicester
Huddersfield
Building next steps for the Refugee Teachers Network
Gateshead
Middlesbrough
Glasgow
BirminghamCoventry
Bradford
GreaterWakefield
Wolverhampton
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13
Walsall
Brighton
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192
16
29
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2
Norwich
Newcastle
Sunderland
Building next steps for the Refugee Teachers Network
• One-to-one IAG support - (Refugees into Teaching)
• Structured work-placement schemes – (+ support groups)
• ‘ESOL for Teachers’ courses
• More ‘familiarisation’ / ‘taster’ courses
Liverpool?
Manchester?
Hull?
Leeds
Other?
North of England
Manchester?
North East?
• Build partnerships in other regions: East of England; East Midlands…
Challenges ahead:
• Independent Safeguarding Authority…
• Sustaining support
• Teaching becoming a fall-back career for private-sector workers…
45 % rise in the number of enquiries about a career in teaching in the past year….
single agency to vet all individuals who want to work or volunteer with children
Funding?
WorkshopsWorkshops a, b and c are designed for organisations supporting refugee teachers.
Workshops d, e and f are specifically designed for refugees who want to get into teaching!
a) Running a familiarisation course for refugee teachers
- Sharing good practice from a short familiarisation course for internationally trained teachers on the UK education system.
REDHILL ROOM
b) Refugees into Teaching in Scotland (RITeS project)
- RITeS Project developments and /achievements- RITeS Research findings.
BEEHIVE ROOM
c) Work placements / How can local authorities support refugee teachers?
- Sharing ideas from refugee teacher work-placement schemes- Discussion on how to set these up elsewhere.
BOARDROOM
d) Getting onto PGCE courses
- Before lunch only!
BROWNSFIELD ROOM
e) Employment-based routes to QTS
- After lunch only!
BROWNSFIELD ROOM
f) National services available to refugee teachers
- Explanation of Refugee Teachers’ Database, Standard Assessment Tool, website…- Analysis of skills and specific obstacles facing refugee teachers, plus ways to overcome them…- Discussion - How can RiT help overseas-trained ‘refugee teachers’?
SMITHFIELD ROOM