Turning Points Chapter 8: A Safe and Healthy School Environment Summary

Turning Points Chapter 8: A Safe and Healthy School Environment Summary

This chapter goes into building a safe and healthy environment in a school and in a classroom. At the Middle School age this is a big range due to what the students are going through. This is a crazy, emotional, and crucial stage in a students life. In creating a safe and healthy environment there are many factors such as: behavior, emotional and physical abuse, sanitization, lifestyles, consequences, rules, etc. A healthy school environment can have on students throughout their education and in their own life. There are many factors inside and outside the school that create the school environment. What happens in the school affects outside of school and what happens outside of school effects inside of school. It is important that clear expectations of behavior and actions of students is well known. Rules should be known, understood, reinforced, and correctly enforced.

The class seemed to really like this chapter and think that it really gave them some insight on how to help provide a safe and healthy environment. That providing this for students in school creates at least one healthy and safe environment for them. Although it served as, what Amber called, "a recap" for a lot of her other courses and reading have gone over before, it's good to have this. It keeps it fresh in our minds like we should keep the classroom norms fresh in our kids minds. Also, with most of us having either Student Teaching or actual teaching right around the corner, this is something that we should fresh up on. Based on Courtney's personal experiences in high school I think in order for a student to be able to focus in school any negativity needs to be removed. Teachers need to show their students that they are someone they can trust and turn to when things get rough. Ryanne liked the idea of a "health club" in the middle school that allowed the students that were uncomfortable participating in after school sports or physical education classes to come into the school a couple nights a week for aerobics classes and gym nights! The fact that those students were able to get involved in a way they were comfortable with was very cool to her and the fact that their parents were coming also was an even better improvement.

Turning Points Chapter 8: A Safe and Healthy School Environment

Turning Points Chapter 8: A Safe and Healthy School Environment

In creating a safe and healthy environment there are many factors such as: behavior, emotional and physical abuse, sanitization, lifestyles, consequences, rules, etc. A healthy school environment can have on students throughout their education and in their own life. There are many factors inside and outside the school that create the school environment. What happens in the school affects outside of school and what happens outside of school affects inside the school. It is important that clear expectations of behavior and actions of students is well known. Rules should be known, understood, reinforced, and correctly enforced.

This is a Great chapter and is very important to consider when creating your classroom management plan. Setting up the classroom rules and expectations should be created with the students, so that they know and understand what they are, make them into the social/ classroom norms, and have safety and health in mind with each one. The effects of not having a safe and healthy environment is important for both the physical and emotional state of your students.

Becoming a Wiz at Brain-Based Teaching

I think that this was a really nice way to talk about stress and the brain. I think that it will really help to understand what our students are going through much better. I also really liked it because I didn't know that all of the things on the list that they told us that relate to stress, related to stress. I am starting to fill out job applications and doing a bunch of stuff for graduation while going to school and working. Stress is a common factor in my life. I really enjoyed looking all the way to deal with stress both in and out of the classroom.

The brain stuff was interesting. There was a lot of information presented, but it was done in such a manor that it was easy to understand. I know that the presenters didn't expect for us to come out of the presentation and have everything memorized, but if we took some key points that will later help us as people and as teacher, they were happy- which is nice.

GREAT JOB!