Successful Transition Framework: Holistic Support for Returning Refugee Students

Successful Transition Framework: Holistic Support for Returning Refugee Students

Schools availablein return areas

ID documents

Enrollmentprocedures

School fees

Able to accessschool

Desired outcomesfor returning

refugee students

Factors that need to bein place to achieve

the desired outcomes

In the context of refugee return currently underway along the Thailand-Myanmar border, this framework provides guidance for education service providers in Myanmar to support holistic transitions for returning refugee students and their successful integration back into schools. Developed from students’ perspective and through extensive consultation with education stakeholders on both sides of the Thailand-Myanmar border, the framework highlights the desired outcomes for returning students as well as factors that need to be in place to achieve these outcomes.

Student buddysystem

Extra-curriculaactivities

Attendance & progress actively

monitored

Student representation on management

boards

Actively participating in school life

Language supportprogrammes

Bilingual teachers /lessons available

Able to understand the language of

instruction

Examinationpreparation classes

Appropriateplacement tests

Confident to sit for examinations /

placement tests

Student focusedoutcomes

(access, learning andsocial integration)

Student-teacherinteraction

Orientation sessionswith parents, students

and teachers

Students are placed inage-appropriate grade

or Non-FormalEducation programme

Able to adjust to teaching approaches

Curriculumorientation

Tuition classes

Able to understand

curriculum content