IRC’s Healing Classrooms
The International Rescue Committee is offering a free educator training programme to schools in Norfolk and Suffolk, this January.
What is the Healing Classrooms programme?
Crises, conflict and displacement have a direct and profound impact on the physical integrity, well-being and learning ability of refugee children and young people. With the right support, the negative effects of suffering and stress can be reduced and refugee children can heal, grow, learn and thrive.
The Healing Classrooms approach, based on over 30 years of research, provides you with the resources and support to achieve this. It covers how to provide safe and supportive learning environments for refugee students in your school alongside practical advice and resources on how to incorporate social-emotional learning and trauma-informed pedagogy into the curriculum.
Online training sessions
The training consists of 3 online sessions led by an IRC education specialist who has experience of the English education system as well as having worked with refugees both in this country and abroad. The sessions will provide you with an opportunity to learn about the Healing Classrooms model and to share expertise with other educators in your region.
Each session will last roughly 1 hour and will take place on Tuesday 10 January / 17 January / 24 January at 4pm. Once you have registered we will send you a Healing Classrooms educator handbook in the post. You will need this during the sessions.
Please contact cintia.shiratori@rescue.org if you would like any further information.