Samran Khezri University of Tampere 16.11.2011

1. Immigrant pupils and their challenges and possibilities of the school attendance Samran Khezri University of Tampere 16.11.2011

2. The main aim of thisessay • What are Finland's readiness in the teaching of immigrant pupils? • What kind of education we need? • What are possibilities and challenges?

3. Problems of the immigrant pupils in the school attendance New environment Different school system Weak know-how of the native language Weak skill of the Finnish language Imbalanced adopting of the language and defective word vocabulary Sectors of the language skill, for example control of concepts Nonexistence support from home Feeling of loneliness/ insecurity Traumatic experiences

4. How can the pupil's school attendance be supported? (Supporting bi-or multilingualism) OWN LANGUAGE TEACHING (OLT) TEACHING OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE FINNISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING (S2) SPECIAL TEACHING PUPIL MAINTENANCE COOPERATION WITH THE PARENTS

5. WHO IS OWN LANGUAGE TEACHER? What is ownlanguageteaching?

6. Own Language teacher’sresponsibilItIES

7. OWN LANGUAGE TEACHER'S TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY Teaches the pupil how to learn Teaches the pupil corrective instruction in different materials with its own native language Makes stronger the pupil’s skills of understanding and learning Helps the pupil to progress according to the curriculum Helps the pupil to get to its own class degree level Can teach the pupil to find out the main part of the subject and material to be learned Describes the concepts of the materials using the pupil's own native language as a support

8. It brings up the pupil's strengths and emphasizes them Concretizes the difficult concepts by simplifying them Makes the vocabulary of the pupils stronger by teaching concepts both in Finnish and their own native language Helps the pupil to the realistic self-assessment Helps the pupil to use as its help all the parts which belong to the sector of the language

9. OWN LANGUAGE TEACHER’S EDUCATION RESPONSIBILITY Helpspupil to adapthimself/herself and to integrate to the new learning and growingenvironment Helpspupils to makestrongertheiridentity Helps and supports the pupils in the conflicts between cultures Acts as a safe, reliable and encouraging adult Supports both pupils and their families in the conflict situations Helps parents in their educational tasks and strengthens their position in the family through it

10. Arranges different cultural events An example of the adult who has been employed to all pupils Estää oppilaita kasvamasta ”puolikulttuurisiksi”, auttaa heitä kasvamaan kaksi-/monikulttuurisiksi ihmisiksi Prevents pupils from growing “half- culturally” and helps them to grow to be bi-cultural/multi-cultural people

11. OWN LANGUAGE TEACHER’S COOPERATION RESPONSIBILITY Reliable contact person in cooperation between school and home Cooperation with school (principal, S2 teacher, the class teacher, subject teachers, career counselor, special teacher, school welfare officer) Cooperating with parents Translation and interpretation tasks Differenteducationaltasks

12. HISTORY COOPERATING WITH SUBJECT TEACHERS AND FINNISH LANGUAGE/ NATIVE LANGUAGE VERBAL TASKS OF MATHEMATICS OTHER SUBJECTS

13. In a pedagogic square (four-sided figure) there are three corners, a teacher and a pupil! ? ?

14. Matematiikan sanalliset tehtävät • Flagpole’s height is 12 m. In a sunny day, it makes 5m lenght shade. Calculate, what is the corner which is created looked form the sun? • 2. The sum of two numbers is 20 and their separation 4. What are these numbers?

15. ڕێنوێنی! هه‌رکام له‌و وشانه‌ به‌ هێڵێک به‌ شوێنی خۆی بلکێنه ! شوێنی گواستنه‌وه‌ و ده‌رمانی نه‌خۆش ئـامبـــــولانـس شووشه‌ چرا تێگه‌ر ده‌رگا

16. شوێنی گواستنه‌وه‌ و ده‌رمانی نه‌خۆش the patient's transport ئـامبـــــولانـس Ambulance شووشه‌ windscreen چرا headlights تێگه‌ر tire ده‌رگا door

17. ڕسته‌ی ئه‌م پرسیاره‌ بنووسه‌ و پاشان حیسابی که‌! • سۆران دووبه‌رابه‌ری زانا پووڵی هه‌یه‌. ئه‌گه‌ر زانا و سۆران پووڵه‌کانیان له‌سه‌ر یه‌ک دانێن، هه‌مووی ده‌بێته‌ 24€. سۆران و زانا هه‌رکامیان چه‌ندیان پووڵ هه‌یه‌؟ • ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ • ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ • ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ VERBAL TASKS OF THE MATHEMATICS Write the phrase and calculate! 1. Soran has two times more money than Zana. They have 24€ altogether. How much money does each of them have? ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

18. THE COOPRATING’S PRACTICAL MATTERS THE CONCEPT GLOSSARY IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE MATERIALS NEW METODS

19. PAULO COELHO Teaching is showing the possibilities and opportunities and Learning is to make matters possible to himself.

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