Refugee Educators Foundations of Practice Course & Communities of Practice

This facilitated and cohort-based online course is designed by and for educators and other education leaders using an asset-based orientation to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students of refugee backgrounds across the U.S.

Online

$350-500

45-60 hours

This facilitated and cohort-based online course offers educators an opportunity to explore teaching and learning approaches and methodologies ranging from culturally responsive pedagogies to trauma-informed practices to differentiated instruction and Universal Design for Learning (among others). The course is designed by and for educators using an asset-based orientation to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students of refugee backgrounds across the U.S.

Participants will complete practice-based, contextually-relevant activities and mini-projects for each of the seven modules, participate in online discussions, and attend virtual workshops with members of their cohort and their facilitator.

Participants will walk away with:

  1. a toolkit of resources, including effective, research-based strategies and methods for working with newcomer, refugee, and culturally and linguistically diverse learners
  2. increased confidence and self-efficacy specific to their work within refugee and immigrant education settings
  3. a new or wider network and community of educators committed to supporting the academic achievement and well-being of students of refugee backgrounds

Participants in the early childhood and K-12 educator cohorts will be able to earn certificates for 45 PD clock-hours*. Additionally, there are embedded opportunities to apply for four micro-credentials associated with content from this course. Participants in the education leaders cohort will be able to earn certificates for 60 PD clock-hours*.

* Check with your local PD/HR office for requirements related to PD clock-hours.

Participants have the option of also earning continuing education credits through UCSD for a nominal (additional) fee. More details available by visiting the UCSD Extension website here or by contacting our team at rea.support@ceinternational1892.org.

Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice Cohorts: Spring & Summer 2023

Early Childhood Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice

This course, designed by educators for educators, offers early childhood educators—be they teachers, caregivers, or community based program staff—resources, knowledge, mindsets, and skills necessary to nurture the talent and develop the gifts of young children new to the United States and/or from refugee/immigrant families.

This course has already started, so registration is now closed.

K-12 Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice

This course, designed by educators for educators, provides K-12 classroom teachers and school support staff with the resources, knowledge, mindsets, and skills necessary to cultivate academic achievement and ensure wellbeing for refugee, immigrant, multilingual learner/emergent bilingual, and newcomer students.

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Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice for K-12 Instructional Coaches, Mentors, Principals, & Other Education Leadership Staff

This course, designed by educators for educators, provides essential resources, knowledge, mindsets, and skills necessary to cultivate academic achievement and ensure wellbeing for refugee, immigrant, multilingual learner/emergent bilingual, and newcomer students. As a foundations course, it allows education leaders (from instructional or academic coaches, to mentors, to principals, to district or state specialists) to review relevant fields of research and theory, revisit best practices, and develop their toolkits to support teachers and other school staff who are working directly with refugee, and other culturally and linguistically diverse, learners.

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