TCK Resources for Teachers and School Counselors

What Teachers Need to Know

International schools and schools with mobile student populations enrol children who are in the middle of one of the most significant transitions of their young lives. The research on what helps is clear: acknowledgment of the transition, connection with other students who understand the mobile experience, and teachers who do not assume that excitement about a new place means the child is fine.

• Does your school have a formal process for welcoming newly arrived internationally mobile students that goes beyond orientation?
• Are teachers trained to recognise the specific presentations of TCK transition stress, which often do not look like distress?
• Does your school have a peer connection programme that specifically connects new arrivals with other TCKs?
• What resources do your school counselors use for supporting TCKs in transition, and are those resources current?