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CHAPTER 2<br />

CLASSROOM <strong>TOOL</strong><br />

Orienting and Accommodating<br />

Newly-Arrived Refugees and Immigrant Students<br />

Orientation for refugee and immigrant students helps to familiarize these newcomers with school routines and<br />

educational expectations. For example, newcomer students may need explanations related to:<br />

• Sitting still for long periods of time<br />

• Working independently or quietly<br />

• Riding a school bus<br />

• Discipline in the school context<br />

• Physical exams and immunizations<br />

• Following a schedule and rotating classrooms or teachers<br />

• Attendance and report cards<br />

• Using a planner<br />

• Wearing or not wearing a uniform<br />

• Changing clothes for gym in an open locker room<br />

• Raising a hand to speak<br />

• How students and teachers relate to and address one another<br />

• Lining up to leave the classroom<br />

• The role of school personnel and who to go to with specific concerns<br />

• Co-ed classes<br />

• What to do in emergency drills<br />

Source: Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services (BRYCS). (2008). Welcoming and orienting newcomer students to U.S.<br />

schools [Spring 2008 Spotlight]. Retrieved from http://www.brycs.org/documents/upload/brycs_spotspring2008-2.pdf<br />

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION • <strong>NEWCOMER</strong> <strong>TOOL</strong> <strong>KIT</strong> • CHAPTER 2 • 16<br />

No official endorsement by the Department of any product, commodity, service, enterprise, curriculum, or program of instruction<br />

mentioned in this publication is intended or should be inferred. For the reader’s convenience, the tool kit contains information about<br />

and from outside organizations, including URLs. Inclusion of such information does not constitute the Department’s endorsement.

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