Volunteering with Refugees

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Volunteering with Refugees
  1. What is the course about?
  2. Prerequisites & Facts
  3. Cost, Certificate & Degree
  4. Reviews & Experiences

What is the course about?

Volunteering with Refugees
The course Volunteering with Refugees is an online class provided by Cambridge Assessment English through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

This course aims to help volunteers understand how they can best support the linguistic and social needs of refugees.

Course description
  • Understand and support the social and linguistic needs of refugees
  • 3 weeks
  • This course is designed to give volunteers an understanding of the backgrounds, current situations and needs of refugees from a wide range of contexts.
    The course provides strategies and techniques for supporting the diverse needs of refugees and has a specific focus on language support, which may be provided in formal or informal settings (e.g. classrooms or informal support groups).
    The course has been developed by a group of experts from Crisis Classroom and Cambridge English.
  • Refugees’ contexts and needs
  • Linguistic and cultural differences
  • Building relationships: topics and activities
  • The Crisis Classroom
  • Understanding and working with trauma
  • Using the Crisis Classroom Framework
  • Structuring learning
  • Supporting learning
  • Resources for language learning and refugee support
  • Discuss key linguistic and social needs of refugees in a range of contexts
  • Identify activities for interacting with refugees
  • Identify and describe behaviours associated with trauma
  • Design psychosocially protective activities to help refugees feel comfortable with learning
  • Evaluate a range of teaching strategies and approaches for supporting language development
  • Explore a range of resources for language teaching and refugee support
  • This course is designed for people either currently volunteering or planning to volunteer with refugees and asylum seekers. The focus of the course is on providing appropriate linguistic support, such as teaching English to refugees, taking into account of their needs and future plans . Previous teaching experience will be helpful but is not essential.
  • Cambridge Assessment English
  • Cambridge Assessment English is part of the University of Cambridge. We help millions of people learn English and prove their skills to the world.
  • Crisis Classroom
  • Crisis Classroom trains volunteer and professional teachers to create life-saving and life-changing education for people who find themselves in crisis both inside and outside the system.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Volunteering with Refugees

Course Topic

Business, Real Estate, Real Estate Leads

University, College, Institution

Cambridge Assessment English

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Volunteering with Refugees

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / Cambridge Assessment English you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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