Action Research in Integration of Immigrant Students in the Classrooms of Torreblanca Secondary School
Thanks to the intercultural training of secondary school teachers, it has been possible to improve the
inclusion of immigrant students in school classrooms. Reality shows that greater attention to this
type of student by teachers, as well as by other colleagues, considerably improves their academic
success. It also favours greater personal development within the socio-environmental context in
which they live. The Erasmus + Quammelot project, after planning and executing a specific training
course for Secondary Education teachers, includes the results obtained in several Spanish schools,
among them the IES Torreblanca. These results have been obtained attending to the personal and
academic needs of immigrant students. This work gathers the main results obtained in three of the
didactic interventions developed along the eight modules that compose the training of the
participating teachers. Throughout these three didactic proposals, information units have been
collected referring to the learning of the attitudinal dimension at an initial moment (M1) and at the
end of each proposal (M2). After the analysis of the information obtained, it has been possible to
verify that the motivation, interest and participation of the students improves notably, regardless of
whether or not they are immigrant students.
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