My local LCP group has set up an excellent program which will shortly begin at Kealba College with the Bridging Course students. The Successes students will make industry and TAFE visits, people from industry/business will come and talk to students, they will interviews, begin on resumes etc. It is going to become part of the For those of us working curriculum rather than a with new arrivals, the only one-off event and may be thing we can say with introduced at Year 9 in certainty is that nothing is Additional the school also. certain. For example, this year we have enrolled Information Five students who, last very few students from year, made decisions the Sudan, but a large I and their teachers number of Karen thought inappropriate, students. The needs, found their way into more Daina Coles, Senior strengths and issues appropriate courses: 2 Project Officer, ESL relating to this new group with some help from me Contact of students are quite and 3 totally Student Learning different to those of the Details independently. Hopefully, Programs Division, Sudanese students we their experiences and Department of Education taught last year. This is stories will prove useful and Early Childhood the true nature of the job to others. Development we do in Language Schools/Centres – (03) 9637 2132 constantly adapting to new students with different needs who come Education traineeships to support schools with refugee students from many different places. principles 1,2,3,4,5
Successes My local LCP group has set up an excellent program which will shortly begin at Kealba College with the Bridging Course students. The students will make industry and TAFE visits, people from industry/business will come and talk to students, they will interviews, begin on resumes etc. It is going to become part of the curriculum rather than a one-off event and may be introduced at Year 9 in the school also. Five students who, last year, made decisions I and their teachers thought inappropriate, found their way into more appropriate courses: 2 with some help from me and 3 totally independently. Hopefully, their experiences and stories will prove useful to others. Additional Information For those of us working with new arrivals, the only thing we can say with certainty is that nothing is certain. For example, this year we have enrolled very few students from the Sudan, but a large number of Karen students. The needs, strengths and issues relating to this new group of students are quite different to those of the Sudanese students we taught last year. This is the true nature of the job we do in Language Schools/Centres – constantly adapting to new students with different needs who come from many different places. Contact Details Daina Coles, Senior Project Officer, ESL Student Learning Programs Division, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (03) 9637 2132 Education traineeships to support schools with refugee students principles 1,2,3,4,5
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