Unit 4 – Building a community for learning
Introduction
You will begin by reading a poem written by British poet, Brian Bilston (a pen name), which explores contrasting perspectives on asylum seekers in Britain.
In this unit, you will explore how to create a welcoming, inclusive community for all students, exploring recommended strategies, case studies, and tools and resources.
At the end of this unit, you will complete your action plan for Building a Community for Learning. In this plan, you will choose 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 most appropriate to your setting.
In Unit 5, you will be given your final action plan, so you have one per unit.
Unit 4 Objectives
- Explain the importance of community building, relationship development and self-worth for refugee students.
- Explore tried and tested strategies to build a community for learning for newcomers and existing refugee students.
- Implement key strategies using case studies and considering how they could be successful in your own context.
