School Violence Prevention Workshop
Overview
I took the
School Violence Prevention Workshop online. The workshop had 47 lessons to read
through that were divided into 5 sections. Each section covered the
responsibilities of different parts of the community in ensuring a safe learning
environment. The longest sections were the roles of Administrators/Teachers/Staff
and Law Enforcement.
What I learned
This workshop
has taught me that my responsibilities as a teacher extend far beyond educating
my students in my classroom. It is my job to educate myself on how to identify students
that are being bullied, students who are bullying, students who are depressed,
the happenings in the community and anything else that may pose a risk to the
school, students, or members of the community. By being able to identify those
who are being bullied, I can try to provide them help or show them where to go
to get help. By identifying bullies, I can monitor them more closely to try to
avoid giving them the chance to pick on others and if necessary, take disciplinary
action or submit a report to the appropriate place for it. By identifying
students who are depressed, I can offer to try help them with problems they are
having or direct them to the proper personnel who can do so. By staying updated
with happenings in the community, I can warn students of things to watch out
for, places to avoid, or career/job opportunities. In any of these cases, I can
also work with their parents to outline concerns so that we can prevent any further
issues before they can happen.
Summary
The big
takeaway from this workshop was that violence in schools of any kind can lead
to serious consequences such as school shootings, suicide, or students ruining
their futures. Another of the big points of this workshop was to not just
punish the bad, but to promote the good as well. As a teacher, and more importantly a member of
that community, it will be my responsibility to ensure that my students feel
safe and welcome in the environment where they are learning. By creating a
classroom policy that promotes good behavior and enforcing school rules, I will
make sure that at the very least, my classroom is a safe place to be in. By
raising a class of respectful and positive thinking students, they will take
that behavior to their group of friends and spread it throughout the school.
Students also must take responsibility for keeping their peers safe and I that
is how I will encourage it.
Source: Graphic I made in Microsoft Paint |
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