The INTO has called on the Department of Education to provide extra resource teachers to support the specific learning needs of refugee children.
The organisation also called for grants to be made available to schools to enable them purchase appropriate language teaching materials for these children.
INTO President, Ms Joan Ward said: "It is crucial that refugee children get every possible support to enable them to participate fully in the education system."
"This can only be achieved by the Government making a very real commitment to the needs of these children," she added.
Ms Ward was speaking at the opening of a new INTO-run course on anti-racist and inter-cultural education. The course is being run in collaboration with the Anti-Racist Education Group and is aimed at meeting the needs of refugee children and children of all ethnic minorities, including Travellers.
