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This document discusses the training of teachers of migrant workers' children and outlines a program of basic and specialized training for the teacher. Part 1, an introduction, discusses some trends in the demand for foreign workers in western Europe and problems in education relating to these trends. Part 2 examines teacher education in the host country on three levels: basic, specialized, and additional training. Part 3 presents responses to a Council of Europe questionnaire from emigration and immigration countries regarding the three levels of education mentioned above. Part 4 presents opinions of nursery and primary teachers who have foreign pupils in their classes concerning the shortcomings in their training and suggestions to repair them. Part 5 outlines a teacher education program for teachers of migrant children in the host countries and the emigration countries. (PD)

Theme II of the Ad Hoc Conference on the Education of Migrants was "measures to secure satisfactory educational provision before and during the host country's compulsory schooling period (including specialized and additional training for teachers dealing with migrant workers' children)". This paper briefly discusses this theme. Major topics are: (1) problems arising from the presence of substantial numbers of migrant workers' children in the host country; (2) ways of easing their integration into the host country's educational system; and (3) schemes and projects quoted by way of example and taken from the reports presented by the participating countries. These are divided into before and during compulsory schooling and teacher training in the emigration and host countries. Recommendations presented for consideration by the Standing Conference of European Ministers of Education are given. The appendices include: (1) Resolution No. 3 (1969)--the nursery school and primary school in relation to the demands of educational opportunity for all; and (2) Resolution (70) 35--school education for the children of migrant workers. (NQ)