Mitigating Math-Related Learning Losses of Newly Arrived Refugee Children Through Innovative Teaching Method

EU and especially Germany and Greece host a large number of students with refugee/immigrant background. One of the biggest problems for EU education systems is the adaptation of refugee and immigrant children to education systems. There has been a time lap between the time when children of immigrant/refugee origin leave school in their country of origin and when they enroll in schools in their current home country (Germany and Greece). This time difference is 3 months for some and 1 year or more for others. This is a lost time for learning. Since they do not have the chance to continue in any educational institution during this time, they experience educational losses compared to their peers. This project was needed in order to develop and test a methodology to identify and eliminate the learning deficiencies of immigrant and/refugee students and to increase their math. education.

The main objectives of this project be to achieved are; • Mitigating math-related learning losses of newly arrived refugee students through innovative teaching methods • Support the inclusion of refugee students with fewer opportunity • Building capacity of less experienced and newcomer organizations

The activities that are going to implemented as below; • Preparation of acquisition/achievement tests to determine learning losses of refugee students • Application of acquisition/achievement tests to refugee students and evaluation of the results • Training of trainers • Pilot training for refugee student through problem-based learning methodology • Production of learning materials and dissemination

Concrete outputs developed at the project: • Trainers were trained by Augsburg University on using it technology, math curriculum and problem-based learning in Math field. • A guideline video developed how to mitigate math. learning losses of students with immigrant background • An Academic article prepared and published in the name of The Impact of Mitigating Refugee Students' Mathematics Learning Loss on Their Resilience Levels