Unit 5 – Fostering academic success
Introduction
As with all the previous units, you will begin by reading a poem written by Afghan poet and former refugee, Shukria Rezaei.
In this unit, you will explore the challenges students can face with their learning when confronted with a new language, new styles of teaching and learning and new topics which may be completely alien to them at first.
You will uncover recommended strategies to enable new students to flourish academically. In Unit 5, you will explore education through the lens of culturally responsive pedagogy. 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.
At the end of this unit, you will complete your third action plan for Fostering Academic Success. 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.
Unit 5 Objectives
- Explain the importance of adapting current teaching and learning methods to ensure children can reach their academic potential.
- Identify ways to use Healing Classrooms strategies to achieve this.
- Formulate strategies to Foster Academic Success for displaced students in your own context.
