Teachers in refugee communities are often confronted by large class sizes (sometimes hundreds of students), students with varying language abilities, ages and educational backgrounds, and a lack of basic resources (textbooks, school supplies and access to training). How can we support the ability of children to learn and provide teachers with training, community support and resources to help them facilitate learning in the classroom?
Supporting Teaching & Learning
How might we support teachers to overcome the unique challenges of teaching in a refugee context?
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Teacher Support Network: Website & Magazine
A website & magazine with resources, mentoring and support for teachers and volunteers at refugee camps.
UERÊ-MELLO Pedagogy - New learning management method
A new way to make it possible to make traumatized kids effectively learn and retain the information thaught to them.
VidIntro
Making a praxis-proven school curriculum for young refugees accessible for everyone via peer-to-peer video tutorials.
Building Project-Based Learning(PBL) Communities of Practice
Provide teachers community assessment and facilitation skills to identify and train a network of refugees as para-educators in PBL.
Solar Powered Digital Tablet Library (Updated for the Refinement Phase)
We’ll give teachers a portable and offline self-sustaining digital library, including tablets, a solar panel, and training for the teachers.
Inventors4Change. Invention-Based Collaborative Learning
Connecting children from around the world and encouraging them to become agents of change in their communities
Kytabu - The Entire Curriculum At Hand.
A tablet with all the content and audio/visual aids to help a teacher cater for any class with curriculum content for primary & secondary.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme for refugee/internally displaced teachers.
Internally displaced teachers must be provided with regular & sensitively planned CPD sessions to rehabilitate them into their careers.
"Digital " Emergency stand by Teachers- Response to the Malawi Floods Emergency 2015
Trained stand-by teachers equipped with psycho-social support, teaching and learning skills and provide digital monitoring and learning.
Kalbonyan Innovative Education Project: A democratic project-based school for Syrian refugees in Turkey
Empower leading & creative generation to choose how to make its future in a world which has become small village full of marvel & paradoxes
Continuous Quality Professional Development, Support and Mentoring for Refugee Teachers
Refugee teachers need and deserve quality teacher training and support to strengthen teacher identity and improve the quality of education.
Be The One Platform: A Toolkit for Refugee Students and their Educators
We aim to establish a toolkit for refugee youth to use as a means to maximize their educational, professional and personal potential.
Tsehai Loves Learning - Experience Map, Questions, & Refinement - July 2
Provide young refugee children with tablet-based self-learning systems that adapt to their needs.
Comics are inspirational teaching tools
Cartoon miniseries about "viral diseases" and the importance of "vaccines"
Kits for Kids – Growing Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder Every Day
Empowering young children and caregivers by helping them grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through play-based educational materials.
The Flat-Pack Farm project
Aquaponic and hydroponic systems used as cross-curricula educational tools, also providing food and resource efficient agriculture skills.
Endless: A Tool for Offline Education and Empowerment (July 2 | Updated for Refinement Phase)
What if the nearly 51 million refugees in the world had access to an intuitive, engaging and empowering platform that works offline?
Updated: 30/6/15 (Questions and Answers). Redesigning the school in a box concept with low cost, open source hardware and software.
Use low cost open source hardware to deliver free and open education, leveraging existing efforts both in hardware and content.
Digital Non-Formal Education for Adolescent Syrian Refugees [Updated for Refinement Phase]
Adolescent Syrian refugees have improved access to relevant Arabic educational content using a blended digital and in-person delivery model.
Community Based School Feeding Programme [Updated 02/07/2015]
Facilitate school feeding to increase enrolment and retention of refugee children in schools.
Educate through overseas professionals to supplement the need of trained teachers
We can gather overseas professionals to contribute an hour daily to educate children via existing and proven online communication tools.
