Sparks states that, "Student ability to learn depends not just on the quality of a textbooks and teachers but also on the comfort and safety they feel at school and strength of their relationships with adults and peers there." I agree with Sparks because if a child feels like they are not safe at school then there is a possibility the child does not want to be a school. Most schools has policy to make sure the environment is secure. Some states have anti- bully, harassment, or sexual conduct policy but some of the policies may be more complex as for a school setting. If a child live or in a high stress environment and chronically physical feel unsafe or uncared, then it will hard for them learn. Therefore, it is our job to help make our environment …show more content…
Therefore, if we help each individual release stress and tips for healthy brain development. We need to protect our brain from bad things, items, and chemicals because it can interfere with our brain development and health. There has been studies show that students learn better when they are in a secure environment. For example, Some schools have security guard that does wand searches, or the child will walk through metal detector. This makes the students feel safe at school. The question was asked, "how can schools build culture of trust and self -control with children from a disadvantage and unstable environment( Sarah Sparks). This is all a life skills and something that students will learn or can related to. One way we can build trust and self-control with student is being a good listener. Teachers and administrators would be so surprised to see how assertive students can be. For example, O' Malley states that she recalls students at high school who complained about the trash can piling up on campus. Therefore, the students raised money to buy more trash can and also they decorate the
In order for children and young people to learn they need to feel safe, secure and as
Improvement in security will also contribute to a safe environment. High schools should implement the use of metal detectors as well as random searches. Although, it may be tedious to remove all metal and coins from your pockets, it will ensure safety. This security measure can be specific to each school. An example being to make the checks random throughout the week or only require it for students to have a late arrival. Random searches can also be specified such as only searching lockers or classrooms. Motion sensored cameras can also be a very effective with safety. In many school’s cameras are only in the hallways and lunchroom, but what happens when violence occurs in a classroom? All evidence will be based off hearsay. This is not an effective way of assessing the incident considering there are 3 sides to every story. Adding motion cameras to classrooms will make evidence accurate. Not only will student-student altercations be recorded, but teacher-student altercations will be recorded. Security guards themselves should also be improved. Security guards should be posted in hallways upon children arrival, during passing periods, and upon school dismissal. Security guards should also be fit enough for the job. “The results indicated that utilization of multiple security measures reduced the likelihood of exposure to property
Safety: Students know that they are physically safe and that they are not in danger in the classroom. Safety also includes students emotional and mental well-being, meaning that they will be free from emotional damage such as bulling or name-calling.
It is important for children and young people to be protected from harm within school/college to help them learn and thrive. This can only be achieved when they are healthy, safe and their welfare is promoted.
An environment of trust will allow students to learn efficiently. When students become aware of their personal responsibilities, they will begin to maintain their integrity, creating a strong sense of honest
academic success and research by Astor and others has consistently found key factors that can make schools safer: cultivate social and emotional health, connect to community resources and respond, particularly, to troubled students.” If schools had better communication and relationships,
And that is trust. Trust is a big thing in a classroom when it comes to building equality or social justice. The passage states that if the student doesn’t feel safe in any form, they won’t make connections to their personal feelings and experiences pertaining to the lesson or discussion. They will just come up with answers that they aren’t even sure about. As a teacher, you should be able to build that trust between you and the student as well as the trust between the students themselves.
It is also known that when students do not feel healthy or safe, their academic work begins to decline, or they are more likely to feel like no one understands them or they don’t belong so they are more likely to drop out of school altogether. These numbers are too high, and something needs to change before these numbers get even higher. A student’s sense of safety should come first before anything else.
Should restaurants ban kids? This a topic that has many people have different opinions on. For example, a restaurant in Houston has recently banned kids under eight years old after 7 PM. Other people believe that kids shouldn’t be banned from restaurants. Some people would even stop going to a certain restaurant if that restaurant would put this rule on! I spent a lot of time thinking about both sides of this topic, and I believe that there should be some rules about kids in restaurants, but shouldn't ban them completely.
During the past decade, school safety has been at the forefront of many school districts safety polices and plans. With recent high profile school shootings, the question school districts continue to ask is how do we keep our schools safe? Administrators face heavy scrutiny when weighing approaches to school safety and student discipline. Likewise, school employees have the right to work in safe environments devoid of life-threatening behaviors (Fenning and Bohanon, 2006; Skiba and Rausch, 2006). America’s founding fathers understood the importance of a public school education. They believed educating its citizens would allow them the opportunity to learn new skills while becoming successful and productive people in society. However, our founding fathers did not predict the severe behavior changes our schools face in educating disruptive and dangerous students. America’s school districts are charged with providing solutions for disruptive and dangerous students (Fenning and Bohanon, 2006; Skiba and Rausch, 2006). School officials must address these issues with research-based interventions and collaborative resources that provide a safe learning environment for all stakeholders (Elliott and Mihalic, 2004; Schoenwald and Hoagwood, 2001). Boards of education continue to support school efforts to rethink best practices for disciplinary alternative middle schools (DAMS). Many school districts focus on research-based interventions and resources that manage aggression and
We know that all children need to feel happy and safe both in and out of school and take pride in the manner in which we behave to one another.
School violence has become of the most pressing educational problems in the United States. Gang violence and high profile shootings across the nation cause concern within schools. Communities struggle to understand why these events take place and how they can be prevented. The overwhelming response to solve the issue of violence in schools is the increasing societal pressure to execute zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is driven by the educational philosophy, policies, and practices of school communities. Stakeholders expect schools to be a safe place for staff and for students. Stakeholders assume that a positive classroom environment, safe students, and school enjoyment are conditions necessary to create a positive climate where learning takes place. This assumption can be backed with research. A calm classroom environment, teachers’ management of disruptive behavior, and students’ view of school safety are factors that have been found to directly correlate with student achievement in the classroom (Ma & Willms, 2004). Safety and a feeling of not being threatened during school hours have been found to be important to students’ achievement. Failure to remove a disruptive or an unruly student from school has been found to have a negative impact on achievement and creates a great risk to school staff and students (Garbarino et al., 1992). Teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn in an
Another way to build the emotional climate in a classroom or group setting to motivate a child or adolescent is “Acceptance by Peers” in which a child “needs to feel safe in the classroom,
In the United States today, millions of students’ attend public schools and face some sort of violence that is associated with that school. It can be gang related or just simply bullying in the school. Because of these rising issues, parents are being forced to pull their children out of public school and home school them for their safety. Is this the best action for the children? Will they be missing out on many life skills that are learned while attending schools with peers their own age? How can the schools make our children feel safe so that they are able to attend the public schools and so that schools don’t lose out on valuable funding from the state? The idea that many believe will fix the problems at school is by implementing
Unsafe learning environments create a climate of fear and insecurity and a perception and this reduces the quality of education for all students.