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.