June 2023 Update

Our Community Teacher Training (CTT) Programme This month we are continuing our CTT programme started last month with our wonderful partner The Workshop based in Belgrade. They have a very dedicated team of trainee teachers who display incredible enthusiasm and commitment to learning and improving in their teaching practice. It has been a joy to see them go from strength to strength over the past weeks of the course, led by our brilliant trainer Jailan and facilitated by The Workshop’s fantastic Nick. We have also finished the online segment of the CTT programme started last month with our great partner there, Movement on the Ground Lesvos. Harriet will conclude this course in-person in July - we can’t wait to meet the trainees face to face and present them with their well-deserved certificates!

Upcoming workshops from RefugeeEd Introduction to teaching in the refugee context This workshop is an introduction to teaching concepts and practices in the refugee context. It can be used as a refresher for those with experience and to share best practices for new teachers. Event Timing: 19:00 (ATHENS) 17:00 (GMT) Tuesday 18th July 2023 The event will last 60 minutes, but join for as little or as much as you like. Sign up here

This week is volunteers' week - check out our social media over June to hear from some of our volunteers and learn more about their experiences working in refugee education on the ground. We love partnering with local organisations on all things education, but we need funding in order to continue to support our partners with qualified teaching volunteers and specialist support. A huge thank you to all of our existing and past donors, you make our work possible! If you are not a current donor and feel that you would like to contribute financially to our work at refugeeEd, please follow this link to our donation page: https://www.refugeeed.com/donate If you’d like to partner with us or you’d just like to chat about anything related to education - feel free to reach out to us at info@refugeeed.com!

With love, The refugeeEd team

March 2023 Update

A sunny hello to you from the refugeeEd team. <3 We hope you have had a great month! Here is a snapshot of what we have been up to in March…

Our Community Teacher Training (CTT) Programme This month saw the start of 2 mentorship programmes for the 4 most recent graduates of the CTT course run in collaboration with Northern Lights Aid (NLA) and Movement on the Ground (MOTG) Samos. These mentees have been developing their teaching practice with dedicated mentors, and they continue to go from strength to strength. We are excited to see them using what they are learning in their classrooms! We have welcomed 2 new trainers to our cohort of wonderful training volunteers, who will both be taking on CTT courses in the next months. One of these will be the programme starting with The Workshop in Belgrade - we are very much looking forward to this course and the first time we will be working with a Serbian partner! This month we also held an in-person community teacher training workshop with Lifting Hands International (LHI) in Serres. Thank you to all the teachers who came and brought all of their amazing ideas to share and inspire each other.

Community Teacher Training Space at Lifting Hands International in Serres

Our Capacity Building Programme This last month has been a busy one planning in person training and visits to organisations working in Greece. With visits to volunteers in Thessaloniki, in person collaboration events and meet ups in Athens, Lesvos and Northern Greece and a volunteer in Samos. We have been very busy. Here are a few photographs of what we have been up to. We are so grateful to be able to support organisations in person.

Lily our education specialist who has been working online with teachers from Solidarity Now to provide support for phonics teaching. Phonics is a specialised way of teaching sounds and letters to build vocabulary to develop confidence independent reading in children from 3-9.

Lily spent 4 days observing and teaching lessons for local teachers in camps in Northern Greece. She also has raised over £500 and purchased resources for the teams to support with their programs.Athens education meet up coordinators and volunteers from Action for Education,

WeEducate and Lighthouse Relief met at the Velos Youth Space to discuss all things education. One of the key challenges discussed was how to ensure people in the camps further out of Athens are able to access the centers and how we can ensure continuity for people who move or transition from one place to another.

Our first in house in person workshop with Teach Beyond and their team of teachers who work in partnership with Metadrasi and EuroRelief to provide education to the children in the camp in Lesvos.

We focused on how to build an inclusive classroom and how to embed inclusive attitudes into your lessons.

Upcoming workshop dates for your diary.

12th April - Online Refugee Education. An introduction to teaching refugees in an online context and how to embed lifelong learning practices.

27th April - Introduction to teaching in a refugee context, information about the current situation in Greece and best practice for teaching refugee students.

If you’d like to partner with us or you’d just like to chat about anything related to education - feel free to reach out to us at info@refugeeed.com!

With love, The refugeeEd team

February 2023 Update

A warm hello to you from the refugeeEd team. <3

We hope you have had a great month!

Here is a snapshot of what we have been up to in February…

Our Community Teacher Training (CTT) Programme

We had the last sessions of the 6-week CTT course that has been run in collaboration with Movement on the Ground Samos and Northern Lights Aid in Kavala. It was great to hear the trainees’ feedback of how they felt the course was useful and could help them in their future professional goals as well as in their immediate classes.

Here is some of their feedback in their own words:

“Everything was interesting and amazing”

“When I had this training, I see differences I see myself as professional, I see myself standing in front of the class. It means a lot to me, it has motivated me more”

“Many thing I learn from Dalia, she’s really good. How to become a teacher, how to be confidence in being a teacher and being responsible”

A huge thank you to Dalia, our trainer, for great sessions!

Participants receiving certificates at the end of the course

All the regular participants on the course will be starting the mentorship programme next month. They will have weekly mentoring sessions with one of our brilliant teacher trainers to further develop their teaching practice and start to relate what they learnt through the CTT course to their individual classes. We can’t wait to get started with this mentorship programme and see the mentees go from strength to strength in their teaching!

We are now in the process of setting up a new CTT programme with The Workshop in Serbia - check back next month to see how it is going!

We also ran a teacher training workshop on Teaching Displaced Communities with teachers from English Pour Tout le Monde (EPTLM). We had some interesting discussions and we wish the EPTLM teachers all the best for starting their classes!

Our Capacity Building Programme

New for 2023 we have developed a bank of ‘ready to go’ in-house workshops available for organisations to choose from. They are templates and adapted to the specific location prior to being delivered. We also have the capacity to lead these in Arabic if organisations have a team of Arabic speakers.

Trauma Informed Classroom strategies

Play with purpose - outdoor activities for children

Inclusion- what is it and how to create it

Teaching in a refugee context

Effective differentiation

We are also leading regular rolling workshops for organisations in the migration context.

Trauma informed practice

Introduction to teaching in the refugee context

This meets the challenge of volunteer turnover and as they are repeated all volunteers can attend again to refresh or if they are participating in the workshop for the first time they are receiving the same information as their colleagues.

Trauma Informed Practice

Wednesday 1st March

We aim to have at least one open workshop per month again to address the changing volunteer population but also to keep in touch and inform the volunteers and organisations.

If you’d like to partner with us or you’d just like to chat about anything related to education - feel free to reach out to us at info@refugeeed.com!

With love,

The refugeeEd team