Unit 5 Summary

In this unit, you explored 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 uncovered recommended strategies to enable new students to flourish academically, explored education through the lens of culturally responsive pedagogy, and worked through a series of case studies to try out the strategies you learned about in this unit and found a range of useful tools that you can download and utilise in your daily work. 

You also completed your action plan for Fostering Academic Success and chose 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.