Equal Opportunities and Sustainable Education in Refugee and Immigrant Students’ Education

With its long migration history, today Turkey has become the center of refugees, asylum seeker, immigrants, illegal immigrants and immigrant workers. Erenköy Girls Anatolian High School developed the project ofEqual Opportunities and Sustainable Education in Refugee and Immigrant Students’ Educationfor the young population that had to emigrate for various reasons. This initiative intend to help them adapt the new culture in immigrated country to provide a successful life and education in this new geography. This project aims the integration of theimmigrants to the new immigrated country and aimsto provide more equalitarian and more successful education especially for the school age children of the immigrant families.
Before the mobility activity, our teachers will attend the informative seminars about Erasmus + projects, school counselors will determine the number of immigrant and refugee students in each class and counseling service will interview with the parents of these determined students.
To improve the language proficiency and communication skills, our teachers will attend inservice training courses and the other teachers in the school will be informed with the related presentations. After these training processes, some activities will be organized to improve the classroom interaction between students;social activities, drama, painting courses, cultural and sportive activities will be also organized in school general. The parents of immigrant-refugee students will be informed with the informative presentations by the counseling service. Furthermore, by actively using the social media all the activities about the immigrant-refugee students will be announced during the process. With the education they receive on the way of this obligatory journeyas immigrant-refugee students, they will gain the qualities of a world citizen.
After the mobility process, the observation on site and experience sharing of the participants will be reported and presented to our school and to the other institutions we cooperate with. By obtaining a maximum adaptation of the immigrant-refugee students to the new culture, this project aims to help them integrate to the new society by fulfilling the required necessities of the life in the new geography.
To increase the efficiency of the objectives and conclusions in long term, a wide range of publicity is foreseen by giving an informative presentations to all our attendant teachers, other staff members, educators, to the education institutions of our district, and finally to the students