Unit 3 – Preparing a Safe Place to Land
Introduction
You will begin by reading a poem written by a London-based poet, JJ Bola, who has lived experience of being a refugee.
His poem explores themes of racism, anti-refugee hostility, resettlement, assimilation and gives a first-hand account of what it can be like to resettle in a new country after fleeing danger in your own.
In this unit, you will explore challenges refugees may face when they arrive in their new country, strategies for schools to help students and families to cope and explore real accounts of how teachers have adapted their work to provide the support needed for refugee students to resettle.
You will work through a series of case studies to try out the strategies you learn about in this unit and find a range of useful tools that you can download and utilise in your daily work.
You will also start working on an action plan for Preparing a Safe Place to Land, which you will complete by the end of this unit.
In this action plan, you will select the strategies you wish to take away and try out in your classroom or wider school. This action plan can help you to focus on your chosen strategies and reflect on how they have worked. Or ways in which you would like to adapt them, so they are more appropriate to your setting.
In Units 4 and 5, you will work on two more action plans, so you have one per unit.
Unit 3 Objectives
- Explain the importance of creating a sense of control and a sense of self-worth for children who have experienced conflict and displacement.
- Explore tried and tested strategies to Prepare a Safe Place to Land for newcomers and existing refugee students.
- Implement key strategies using case studies and consider how they could be successful in your own context.
