Safe and Caring Resources
Micro Workshops
The SACSC micro-workshops are brief, half hour sessions designed to help teachers continue to integrate safe and caring principles into their teaching practices. Ideally, these short workshops follow the Toward a Safe and Caring Secondary Curriculum-Approaches to Integration one day workshop and are facilitated by a staff member. Each micro-workshop examines a SACS concept or introduces an instructional strategy or learning activity that can be adapted for any classroom setting in any subject area. These micro-workshops are an effective way to extend the professional development experience after the staff has experienced the full day workshop. The micro-workshops can be scheduled as a portion of monthly staff meetings or undertaken as small-group, study sessions.
The Society also offers a Bullying Overview Presentation that secondary teachers can present to their students. This presentation can be viewed online or projected in the classroom.
Micro-workshop 1
School Climate
This micro-workshop provides an interactive approach to examining school climate in relation to the physical structure of the school building. A Luann cartoon can be used to stimulate thinking and promote discussion. This cartoon focuses on feelings of alienation that can occur in large high schools. Use a Force Field Analysis to evaluate and prioritize the group's suggestions.
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Micro-workshop 2
Brain Research-Safe and Caring Schools Havens for the Mind
There are no simple answers as to why people behave the way they do. Many factors influence our physical, psychological and social development. Because the brain is regulator of thinking and feeling, it is crucial to understand the effects that stress and violence can have on these functions. This micro-workshop will assist teachers in gaining greater understanding of the complexities of violent behaviour.
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Micro-workshop 3
The Four A's of Safe and Caring Schools
This micro-workshop provides an opportunity for school staffs to understand the importance of promoting the Four As: attachment, achievement, autonomy and altruism in building a safe and caring school environment. Participants will analyze their own school's context to determine the extent to which these attributes presently exist. This activity also gives participants an opportunity to consider what they might do to further promote the Four As in the secondary school setting.
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Micro-workshop 4
Zero Tolerance Policies: Do They Teach Better Ways to Behave?
The response to the perception that violence in school is increasing or is "out of control" has been for school boards to adopt a "get tough" approach referred to as "zero tolerance." The policy usually applies to possession of weapons, drugs and alcohol; but it can include vandalism, fighting, swearing and other disruptive behaviours. While zero tolerance policies may appear to be a reasoned response to violence, the concept needs to be carefully examined to consider some key issues: what students learn when any misbehaviour is punished without due process, how serious is school violence and how effective are zero tolerance policies in making schools (and communities) truly safer.
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Micro-workshop 5:
Responding to Inappropriate Behaviour Discipline Paradigms
One of the objectives of the SACSC programming is to encourage adults to use problem-solving strategies rather than punishment when dealing with children's and adolescents' inappropriate behaviour. When using a problem-solving approach, the goal is for the young person to learn a better way to behave. With a punishment approach the goal is to impose a penalty (or reward). Making mistakes is part of growing and learning. Remember it is the behaviour not the child that is the issue. This micro-workshop will help teachers think about Problem-solving versus Punishment approaches.
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Micro-workshop 6
Newcomer Students School Experiences: Examining Case Studies
Newcomer families come to Canada representing a broad spectrum of ethnicities, cultures and races. For the children of newcomer families, adjusting to life in Canada can be extremely challenging. Children must often learn a new language, make new friends, learn new cultural norms and sometimes deal with issues related to troubling or traumatic past experiences.
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Micro-workshop 7
Building Awareness of Sexual-Orientation and Gender-Identity Issues in Schools: Exploring Definitions
This micro workshop provides an opportunity for school staffs to develop an awareness of sexual-orientation issues. Schools, classrooms and communities should be models of diversity,
where all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential. All students need to feel
valued, welcomed and safe, regardless of their sexual orientation.
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Micro-workshop 8
Micro-workshop for Teachers - Homophobia in the School Environment: A Discussion Model
The focus of this micro-workshop is to develop a critical dialogue that examines teacher and school community attitudes, dispositions and beliefs about homosexuality in an educational context. Schools, classrooms and communities should be models of diversity in which every student is given the potential to be, become and belong as full contributing members who can feel valued, welcome and safe regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Micro-workshop 9
What School District Leaders Can Do to
Create Safe and Caring Schools
for LGBTQ Students
This micro-workshop provides an opportunity for school district leaders, such as principals or school board members to develop an awareness of sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Schools, classrooms and communities should be models of diversity, where all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential. All students need to feel valued, welcomed and safe, regardless of their sexual-orientation. It is available in a PDF document or as a PowerPoint presentation.
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Micro-workshop 10
Understanding LGBTQ Issues–A Workshop for Parents
This micro-workshop provides an opportunity for parents to develop an awareness of sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Schools, classrooms and communities should be models of diversity, where all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential. All children and youth need to feel valued, welcomed and safe, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It is available in a PDF document or as a PowerPoint presentation.
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Micro-Workshop 11
Becoming the Change We Want to See Web Quest
The focus of this micro workshop is to develop a critical dialogue that examines teacher and school community knowledge, skills and attitudes about global citizenship and the importance of taking an active role toward a preferred future. By surfing the CIDA website educators and students will gain an awareness of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Canada’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs). School communities will become more aware of how to become engaged and responsible citizens who strive toward the United Nation’s Pillars of Learning: Learning to be; Learning to know; Learning to do; Learning to Live Together.
This workshop is intended for staff development and classroom use. It can be completed as an individual activity or it can be addressed through group endeavour.
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Micro-Workshop 12
Addressing Global Issues through Youth Action
Make Global Education Come to Life! Review this micro-workshop for ideas on how to engage your students in global issues, or contact us to book a full workshop.
This micro-workshop will help educators promote an understanding of global interdependence and our responsibilities as Canadian citizens. It will also increase students' understanding of Canada's role in international developments and help them develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to adress global citizenship in their classrooms. This will be accomplished by:
- Reviewing the Millenium Development Goals
- Making Connections with Programs of Study
- Reviewing the SACSC Youth Action Process
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Handout: Millenium Development Goals
Powerpoint Presentation: Youth Action 2009
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Bullying Overview Presentation
The Society's Bullying Overview is a PowerPoint Presentation, designed for Secondary students and older youth, that outlines violence and bullying issues and prevention. Teachers may use this presentation to discuss bullying with their students. The presentation includes:
- Definition of Violence and Bullying
- Root Causes of Bullying
- Types of Bullying
- Consequences of Bullying
- Strategies to deal with bullying situations
- Bullying Research
- Safe and Caring Schools and Communities Violence and Bullying Prevention Programming.
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Click here for a schedule of upcoming workshops, or for information on the other SACSC workshops.
The Society is continuously revising the website to include more resources and to offer additional resources to download free of charge, so keep checking in to see what's new to the SACSC resources pages!
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