Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance 3rdPress Release
IMCAP –Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance is 24-month Erasmus+ KA2 Project (Project number: 2020-1-UK01-KA201-079210) that started in November 2020.IMCAP focuses on developing a three-way link between teachers, parents, and migrant pupils to narrow the educational achievement gap between migrant and non-migrant peers and improve the children’s academic performance. IMCAP aims to support teachers and migrant parents with a capacity-building booklet, a cultural handbook, and an online networking platform. Read the complete PR here
A networking platform, a mentoring meeting point: The IMCAP Project
After the development of the Capacity building booklet for Teachers and the creation of the Cultural Handbook for Parents, the IMCAP training programme comes full circle with the creation of an interactive platform that serves as a meeting point for teachers from different countries. Because in every school education project, and even more so in one as ambitious as ours, it is clear to all of us that the final beneficiaries are the students, in this case the immigrants who need to integrate into their new social and cultural context. At IMCAP, we have also paid special attention to the families, who are responsible for the education and training in values once the pupils leave the school; but no one can hide the key role that teachers play in this complicated process of adaptation of immigrant pupils and families. For this reason, because we know that there is not…
Tools to Enhance Migrant Children’s Educational Opportunities: The IMCAP Project
Children with migration background face multiple sources of disadvantage that affect their academic performance and their general well-being. Teachers working in culturally diverse classrooms are formally trained, however, literature on how to assist students with migration background and deal with their parents is limited. The idea behind the KA2 Erasmus+ project IMCAP – Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance is to draw best practices from staff already engaged in such environments to allow a peer exchange of knowledge, skills, ideas, techniques and share them across EU schools. IMCAP aims to bridge the gap between parents of children with migration background and their teachers and to enhance the children’s educational opportunities and integration. The project offers a set of useful tools to narrow the educational disparities and mismatches, strengthen the teaching professionals’ profiles, and actively engage parents in their children’s educational journey. IMCAP’s Capacity-building Booklet for Teachers presents an overview of multicultural…
Summary of Research
As many are aware, migration has become one of the main challenges of the 21st century. As people move in search of something better, they face a number of economic, political, cultural, and educational drawbacks. Unfortunately, there are many obstacles keeping migrants from getting adequate education, such as a lack knowledge of the host country’s language, differences in the education system, and many additional institutional barriers. As a part of the IMCAP project, involving the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Cyprus, and Spain, we have created two handbooks to help alleviate the issues migrant children and their families face when entering a new school system. The first booklet is a Capacity Building Handbook for Teachers and the second is a Cultural Handbook for Migrant Parents. The aim in creating these materials is to attempt to bridge the gap between migrant and non-migrant children’s academic achievement by tackling the problem from the angle…
Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance 2ndPress Release
MCAP –Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance is 24-month Erasmus+ KA2 Project (Project number: 2020-1-UK01-KA201-079210) that started in November 2020.IMCAP focuses on developing a three-way link between teachers, parents, and migrant pupils to narrow the educational achievement gap between migrant and non-migrant peers and improve the children’s academic performance. IMCAP aims to support teachers and migrant parents with a capacity-building booklet, a cultural handbook, and an online networking platform. Read the complete PR here
Manual Cultural para Padres Migrantes – IO2
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Cultural Handbook for Migrant Parents – IO2
As part of the IMCAP (Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance) project involving the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Cyprus and Spain, this cultural handbook for migrant parents has been developed to help address the problems you may have in helping your child integrate into the host country and succeed academically.
Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance’s First Press Release
IMCAP – Improving Migrant Children’s Academic Performance is 24-monthErasmus+ KA2 Project (Project number: 2020-1-UK01-KA201-079210) that started in November 2020. The IMCAP project aims to improve the migrant students’ academic performance. Partners from four European Countries bring their expertise together to create a platform to tackle the education gap and mismatches by strengthening the profiles of educators. IMCAP’s goal is to narrow the educational achievement gap between migrant and non-migrant peers by targeting key stakeholders and assisting them with tools; a cultural handbook, a capacity-building booklet, and an online networking platform. Read the complete press release here