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Welcome to the Refugee Teachers Network Conference, 2009

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.

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Welcome to the Refugee Teachers Network Conference, 2009

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  1. Welcome to the Refugee Teachers Network Conference, 2009

  2. 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 and Refugee New Arrivals Project (Sheffield)

  3. Aims of the conference: 2. Help and support individual teachers that have attended today Manchester Metropolitan University STTORMM Barnardo’s North West Refugees into Teaching Teachers from Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle

  4. Aims of the conference: 3. Make recommendations to the Refugee Teachers’ Task Force Employability Forum Refugee Council Questions to think about… - 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?

  5. 1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network June – Refugees into Teaching Conference… Newcastle Leeds Manchester Huddersfield Hull Sheffield Liverpool Lincoln Bristol Leicester London

  6. 1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network June – Refugees into Teaching conference September – Yorkshire and Humberside Network ‘steering group’ set up: RETAS Education Leeds Leeds Metropolitan University Refugee New Arrivals Project (Sheffield) Refugee Council Hull Trinity College, Leeds B-NETT Sheffield Hallam University TC21 TDA

  7. 1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network Yorkshire and Humberside Network ‘steering group’ set up… November – January, Familiarisation course – Leeds Metropolitan University

  8. 1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network November - Manchester ‘Network’ meeting Sheffield course Refugee Action MARIM Manchester Refugee Forum Urbis Manchester City Council Manchester Metropolitan University STTORMM Sheffield Hallam University RNAP Liverpool course John Moore’s University MRSN Liverpool Council Familiarisation course – Leeds… GTP open evening Cross-Curricular day Course? Interest in North East Post-course support, Leeds… MERIT

  9. 1 year of the Refugee Teachers Network Work-placements – Education Leeds Post-course support, Leeds… IELTS at RETAS 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 Degree top-up information event, Trinity

  10. Building next steps for the Refugee Teachers Network Newcastle Gateshead Sunderland Glasgow Middlesbrough Bradford Wakefield 13 Leeds Greater Manchester Huddersfield 157 52 Hull Sheffield Liverpool 88 Coventry 14 Lincoln 2 Walsall Birmingham 29 Wolverhampton Bristol Leicester 5 192 Norwich 16 London Brighton

  11. Building next steps for the Refugee Teachers Network • One-to-one IAG support - (Refugees into Teaching) North of England Manchester? Hull? • Structured work-placement schemes – (+ support groups) Liverpool? Leeds • ‘ESOL for Teachers’ courses Other? Manchester? • More ‘familiarisation’ / ‘taster’ courses North East? • Build partnerships in other regions: East of England; East Midlands…

  12. Challengesahead: • Independent Safeguarding Authority… • Sustaining support • Teaching becoming a fall-back career for private-sector workers… single agency to vet all individuals who want to work or volunteer with children Funding? 45 % rise in the number of enquiries about a career in teaching in the past year….

  13. Workshops Workshops a, b and care designedfor organisations supporting refugee teachers. Workshops d, e and f are specifically designed for refugees who want to get into teaching!

  14. a) Running a familiarisation coursefor 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 /Howcan local authorities support refugee teachers? • Sharing ideas from refugee teacher work-placement schemes • Discussion on how to set these up elsewhere. • BOARDROOM

  15. d)Getting ontoPGCE courses • Before lunch only! • BROWNSFIELD ROOM • e)Employment-based routesto QTS • After lunch only! • BROWNSFIELD ROOM • f)National services availableto 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

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