Professional+Development


 * TESOL Quarterly Online
 * ESL Magazine Online
 * Contemporary Refugee Issues
 * Guardian Newspaper TEFL Education and Resources
 * Teaching and Learning Resources
 * NCVER site and the Adult Literacy research program that ran from 2002 to 2006. There might be some articles in there you find interesting. There are only a few specifically targeted for CALD clients but some of the other literacy focussed findings might be interesting. One article of interest: //Teaching learners from highly oral cultural backgrounds: Good practice guide//
 * ECENTRE - DOE Online resources for teachers (need V-key password)


 * Online resources: migrant backgrounds and refugee experiences **

The DIAC community profiles provide information regarding the demographics, settlement needs, countries and cultural backgrounds of newer humanitarian communities in Australia.
 * DIAC Community Profiles (Department of Immigration and Citizenship) **
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The informative AMEP Research Centre Fact Sheets provide AMEP teachers with information on areas of professional concern. They provide an overview of each topic with annotated references for those who wish to extend their knowledge. Examples of topics that may be of interest to tutors are:
 * Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Fact Sheets **
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The influences of Prior Learning Learners with Low Literacy in the AMEP Different Cultures of learning

To find **Country Profiles** **Fact Sheets**, search the site under the name of the country and the word ‘profile’ (e.g. SEARCH: Sudan profile). These provide background information on countries and cultural groups that represent a high proportion of AMEP learners.

//AMEP Fact Sheets are available as hard copies from our Home Tutor Resource Room. //

This Canadian website provides cultural and demographic background information on a wide range of immigrant groups. Click on a country and then choose a topic such as Education, Arts and Literature, Communication (including languages), Family Life, Spirituality… the list goes on. The site also contains useful references.
 * Cultural Profiles Project **
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Find out about the UNHCR and current situations for refugees in conflict areas such as Darfur, Congo and Burma. There are also free downloadable publications and online slideshows, for example:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR): **
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">UNHCR slideshow **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">**of camps on the Thai border**
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For online slideshows of life for refugees from Burma in camps on the Thai-Burma border:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Flikr **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|http://www.flickr.com] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Slideshow of internally displaced people (Flickr) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> [|http://www.flickr.com/photos/61165888@N00/se][|ts/72157600239628749/show/] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Refugees on Thai-Burma border (Flickr) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> [|http://www.flickr.com/photos/61165888@N00/se][|ts/72157600238690089/show/] **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A very extensive website //“devoted to the issues, journeys, images and stories of the Sudanese diaspora.”// It includes research and links to information about people and cultures, arts and music, languages, statistics, politics, literacy, news and more. Well worth exploring.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">SORA: Sudanese Online Research Organisation **
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Oxfam Australia has established a website that enables people living in refugee camps in northern Uganda to communicate with people in Australia. The project seeks to lessen the incredible isolation felt by refugees displaced by war living in the camps through communicating with others over the web. The blogs will also raise awareness of the lives of some of the 1.6 million people living in the camps. The site allows people to communicate through sending written messages (blogs). People are able to learn from one another through sharing stories and information from across the world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Oxfam Uganda Blog **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|www.oxfam.org.au/uganda-blog] **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">This comprehensive website tells the stories of Bhutanese refugees; the situation that led people to flee their homeland, their lives in the camps and in countries of re-settlement.The site has a range of fascinating, honest and deeply moving testimonies from refugees, recorded by a range of human rights organisations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Bhutanese Refugees: The story of a forgotten people **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|www.bhutaneserefugees.com] **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">There are virtual tours of camps in Nepal, and information regarding daily life in the camps, camp organisation and social issues. Different pages explore on the history, geography, politics and people of Bhutan. There is also background information and accounts of human rights violations, debunking the myth of a Shangri-La with the highest ‘Gross National Happiness’.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Other useful sites: **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Refugees Intertational <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Forced Migration Online <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|http://www.forcedmigration.org] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Amnesty International ** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">New Internationalist <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Human Rights Watch <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VTPU (Victoria Transcultural Psychiatry Unit) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] **




 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">These sites are provided to assist you with background information on migrant learners and current situations for refugees. Please be aware that information and images contained in these sites may be distressing for former refugees. These sites are not intended for use with students, but if you feel some of the content is appropriate and relevant to tutoring, please use it with great sensitivity. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">These sites are provided to assist you with background information on migrant learners and current situations for refugees. Please be aware that information and images contained in these sites may be distressing for former refugees. These sites are not intended for use with students, but if you feel some of the content is appropriate and relevant to tutoring, please use it with great sensitivity. **

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