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These websites were shared by our Teaching through Crisis interviewees, they are a mixture of support articles, classroom ideas and things to promote student and teacher wellbeing in the ESOL and refugee teaching space. 

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Lessons and activities 

 

• Promote peace and to encourage positive actions and creativity through >> Bracelets and Peace  

 

• British Council TeachingEnglish: In this lesson, pupils learn what a refugee is by reading a definition, some statistics and some information about how refugees might feel. Learners are encouraged to put themselves in the place of a refugee and consider how they might feel at leaving behind their homes and belongings. They can also watch a short video produced by UNICEF, in which two brothers talk about their journey from Syria to Germany. 

        In the main part of the lesson, learners work in groups to produce a poster presentation                            >> poster project 

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• A collection of materials for primary and secondary WITH Teacher guides. From the UN Refugee Agency >> UNHCR  

 

• Resources created by teachers for teachers, part of the Erasmus+ ICEPELL project - An ICEKit is a teaching pack to use with a picturebook. It has been created by practitioners for practitioners to develop intercultural citizenship education in early language learning >> Resource kits  

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• Ali and the Long Journey to Australia - Lesson Plan and poster by Michelle Worgan 

 

 

 

Teacher Wellbeing 

 

• The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) published a guidance note for Teacher Wellbeing in Emergency Settings. Download it here. 

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         Visit their website here

 

• Webinar: Trauma-responsive Education: Supporting Students and Yourself - Learning for Justice

• Article: Battling Worldwide Teacher Burnout: Strategies for a Resilient Education Workforce 

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Further reading/watching for teachers 

 

• Webinar: Co-hosted by former Learning for Justice Advisory Board members Kinette Richards, Ph.D., school psychologist, and Barbie Garayúa Tudryn, school counselor, this webinar will help you gain a common understanding of trauma and how it affects both learning and relationships at school—for students and educators alike.   www.learningforjustice.org 

 

• Webinar: Children’s multilingual rights: my languages, my identity  by Dr Nayr Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English Subject Pedagogy at Nord University in Norway.  (Primary students) 

 

• Article: "Drama without borders", by Efi Tzouri (p. 143) 

 

• Webinar: IATEFL Young Learner SIG >>  Newcomers in UK schools: learning English to survive, Annamaria Pinter (Primary) 

 

• Article: Teaching Through Tragedy - National Geographic  

 

• Courses: Future Learn - 15 courses on refugees, including Migrants and Refugees in Education: A toolkit for teachers 

 

• Webinar: Supporting the mental health and well-being of refugee children in school 

 

• Blog: Emily Bryson writes her top recommendations for books and films about refugees >> Books and films about refugees  

 

• Blog: British English blog post about >> inclusivity 

 

• Paper: by Aleks Palanac >> 'Towards a trauma-informed ELT pedagogy for refugees' -  

  

        Project: by Aleks Palanac >> Beyond Resilience: Facilitating learning and well-being in the refugee language classroom  

 

Read more about Aleks Palanac on the University of Leicester's website >> Aleks Palanac's profile  

 

 

  

 Further reading/watching for students 

 

• Book: The boy at the back of the class  by Onjali Q Rauf - Book about a boy from Syria who is resettled in the UK. The story follows him making friends at primary school.   

 

• ​Book: Graphic Novel for adults about a young adult traveling from Africa to Europe via people smugglers >> Illegal by Eoin Colger and Andrew Donkin.  

 

• Book: Graphic Novel for adults about a Syrian family resettling in the USA - Guardian review >> Welcome to the new world. Waking up in Trump’s America.