Intercultural Mentoring tools to support migrant integration at school (INTO)

I. Contact details

Contact name

Elisa Carboni, Marco Paoletti

Contact e-mail address

elisa.carboni@oxfamitalia.org

Contact website

http://interculturalmentoring.eu/en/

Name of the institution

Oxfam Italia

Address of the institution

Concino Concini, 19 52100

Additional information about the institution

II. Good practice introduction

Title of the good practice

Intercultural Mentoring tools to support migrant integration at school (INTO)

Language of the good practice

English

Primary target group of the good practice

Teacher

Primary target country of the good practice

Italy

Tags

Keywords

mentoring, intercultural diversity, youth empowerment

Abstract

The project funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission was a Comenius Multilateral Project cooperation of Italy, Spain, Cyprus, Poland and the United Kingdom.
The project aimed to promote strategies and methods that help students with a migrant background at risk of ESL to maintain their motivation. An Intercultural Mentoring Programme based on the empowered peer education methodology was developed, tested and validated. 50 students with migrant background were trained as Intercultural Mentors and they were able to provide support to their peers in learning, study prosecution guidance and homework’s support.
The Intercultural mentor profile was adapted to different European contexts, developed in collaboration with at least 100 school staff members (headmaster and secondary school teachers from 5 different European countries) and tested as well. The focus was a bit different in every participating country – e.g.: in Italy the International Mentors helped the new students in their arrival to the school, in Spain they helped to overcome the language barriers of reading, writing and speaking. Beside the language knowledge psychological support and increased level of integration was in focus in Poland. The Guide gives practical help on how to choose the young mentor, while the toolkit is a more detailed for the professionals on how to implement this framework.

III. Good practice details

Impact of measures taken

The main project outputs are the following: • Didactic Kit: these are self-teaching materials containing the training framework to directly implement the model of intervention in secondary school system. • Guideline Handbook: which aims to support the future implementation of training courses. • Training courses were developed for teachers from the perspective of teaching / learning life-skills, key competencies in order to set up a new model of intervention towards migrants within their schools. • An informal training course for students with a migrant background to become an Intercultural Mentor

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