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Teaching About Immigrants and Refugees: The Curriculum guide is an excellent tool of preparing educators about immigration and refugee issues. It gives a variety of topics, themes, and activities to use for classroom use and gives a selected sample syllabi.
Encouraging Refugee Awareness in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers: This guide intended for primary level classrooms provides lesson plans, classroom activities, background information on refugees, and other resources
Mental Health and the ESL Classroom The ESL classroom is the first line of defense against the culture shock that newly arrived refugees experience. Buffeted by the physical and emotional trauma of forced migration, refugees are in need of a safe harbor, as well as tools for survival. The ESL classroom serves both of those needs. The ESL teacher instructs refugees in how to communicate effectively, a basic and critical skill in integrating newcomers into a new culture. In turn, the ESL teacher must be aware of the daunting emotional and physical challenges, as well as the increased risk of mental illness, that refugees face. This manual was written as a guide for ESL teachers: to outline the complex burdens that the refugee carries; and to set out some concrete steps that an ESL teacher can implement in order to make his or her classroom an effective teaching environment, as well as a welcoming oasis to overwhelmed refugees.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) includes a section on their website called "Teacher's Tools " which contains several useful curricula for refugee focused education including areas of art, history, human rights, civic education. The teaching resources link contains a list of several high quality pamphlets and brochures produced by UNHCR in various languages that are available for purchase.
The Refugee Experience Psychosocial Training Module developed thorugh the Refugee Studies Center, at the University of Oxford. Group activity addressing mental health and gender issues involved in forced migration.
Doctors Without Borders curriculum to their very successful "Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City" project is on their website. http://www.refugeecamp.org/curriculum. The object of this curriculum is to acquaint students with some of the complexities involved in refugee/internally displaced person (IDP) camps, which are essentially small instant cities that seem to arise miraculously from otherwise unoccupied land. The activities are designed to be cumulative, so that information gained in a prior task can be used to solve a subsequent problem. Complete curriculum available in a downloadable PDF file.