Understand ways to maintain a safe and supportive learning environment
‘How can we create safe and supportive learning environments?’ from Elite Behavior Media.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘The Award in Education and Training’ by Ann Gravells 2014 Revised edition, published by Sage
- Look at your organisation’s health and safety policies, in particular those relating to e-safety, the learning environment, personal safety and safeguarding.
- ‘Mind what you do online’ from the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)
- ‘Safer practice, safer learning: A whole-organisation approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults for the learning and skills sector’ produced by the NIACE and the Department for Education and Skills
- ‘Working together to safeguard children’ from the UK government’s website
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Fostering appropriate classroom behaviour and respect'.
- Click to access the document mentioned on slide 7 of the presentation 'Practical safety & security teacher’s guide to classroom safety' by Peerless Insurance.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click on the link to the education section of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This site includes guidance on managing the significant risks in education for learners and members of staff.
- This link is to the UK government’s website on Safeguarding Children for schools, colleges and children’s services. It includes the latest version of ‘Working together to safeguard children’. ‘Safeguarding disabled children’ and ‘Protecting children from radicalisation: the prevent duty’.
- The SCIE have provided this section 'Safeguarding adults'. Read through the module to discover more about abuse that can be faced by vulnerable adults.
- 'Practical Approaches to Behaviour Management in the Classroom: A handbook for classroom teachers in secondary schools' produced by the Welsh Assembly Government.
- ‘Managing behaviour in the Lifelong Learning Sector’ by Susan Wallace, published by Learning Matters in 2007. Read the section on ‘The Rule Book’. NB You should be able to borrow this book from your local library.
- ‘Managing classroom behaviour’ from ATL, the education union.
- ‘How can I manage classroom behaviour effectively?' from the Edapt webstite.
- Creating a culture: How school leaders can optimise behaviour’ by Tom Bennett was produced after a Department of Education commissioned review of behaviour in schools.
- Think And Challenge
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