Teaching and Learning

This area of the website is aimed at teachers, inclusion co-ordinators, subject leaders and teaching assistants. The aim is to share knowledge and practice in order for the learning needs of a range of minority ethnic children and young people to be addressed.

Teaching and Learning needs to take place in a context where there is:

• whole-school commitment to raising achievement through educational inclusion
• recognition of the knowledge, culture and language which minority ethnic children and young people bring to learning.

The success and achievement of pupils depends upon a clear understanding of their social, cultural and language needs together with knowledge of quality first teaching practice.

• Every learner in our schools has an entitlement to fulfilling their potential through access to the National Curriculum.  

• This can only be achieved within a whole-school context where learners are educated with their peers. 

• Children and young people learn best when they feel secure and valued. 

• Schools need to ensure that there is a process to support the integration for new arrivals. 

• All schools have a responsibility to promote race equality in line with the requirements of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act (2000).

• Schools should focus on the positive contributions made by all minority ethnic pupils including new arrivals and mobile learners.

• Provision for children and young people needs to be based on a meaningful assessment of individuals’ prior knowledge and experience.  

• All parents and carers need to be engaged in taking a full and active role in their children's learning. .  

         (Based on NAEP Guidance, DCSF, 2007)