This artifact is one that really hit home to me. Whenever there is a major accident, occurrence, or disturbance that affects your students, class, school, or community there are major fall-outs to education. Students find themselves facing a variety of ordeals in and outside of school that hamper their ability to learn; the school and its faculty must make an effort to be compassionate and caring to students in any time of need and allow a proper amount of grieving time. For instance, when I was in high school I lost two very close friends of mine, one when I was in 8th grade, another when I was in 11th. Both of these instances were some of the most difficult and trying moments of my life to have to cope with the death of a friend at such a young age. The school and its faculty in both instances made the school day of the funerals optional so classmates could attend, they help counseling and grief services throughout the school for two weeks, and they held assemblies addressing the circumstances. My experience with post crisis planning and recovery was good overall; my school handled these issues very professionally.
The research we conducted throughout or professional management course hinted at the very procedures my school took action in. We discussed how it is a known affect of tragedies that the grieving process takes hold and impedes learning for extended periods of time. We also discussed the appropriate wait time, actions, and conversations that should take place when things like this happen. We concluded that we need to be compassionate, caring, and value our students as members of a larger community than the school. We also decided that taking a break from a hard load of work for a week would be a good solution to giving students time to mentally relax. We also discussed the entities in which a students life is affected such as in the classroom, in school, at home, in the community, or even nationally. Students can be affected just as severely from the death of a friend to the death of the president, or the bombing of the twin towers; the bottom line is that schools have an obligation to act as guidance and support.
What I learned through the research and creation of this artifact is that there is actually a designated plan and procedure in most schools for such post-traumatic instances. I applied this research to my own experiences and realized how effectively my school would execute on such tragedies. I also learned how it truly takes the kind and compassion of an individual teacher to really make the difference and letting students know you care about them. Learning the proper amount of time and actions to take during that time was extremely beneficial to knowledge on this subject. In my future I will make an effort to be caring and compassionate and use my experiences to guide my decisions on how I handle the fall-out of traumatizing events that occur in my students lives.
The research we conducted throughout or professional management course hinted at the very procedures my school took action in. We discussed how it is a known affect of tragedies that the grieving process takes hold and impedes learning for extended periods of time. We also discussed the appropriate wait time, actions, and conversations that should take place when things like this happen. We concluded that we need to be compassionate, caring, and value our students as members of a larger community than the school. We also decided that taking a break from a hard load of work for a week would be a good solution to giving students time to mentally relax. We also discussed the entities in which a students life is affected such as in the classroom, in school, at home, in the community, or even nationally. Students can be affected just as severely from the death of a friend to the death of the president, or the bombing of the twin towers; the bottom line is that schools have an obligation to act as guidance and support.
What I learned through the research and creation of this artifact is that there is actually a designated plan and procedure in most schools for such post-traumatic instances. I applied this research to my own experiences and realized how effectively my school would execute on such tragedies. I also learned how it truly takes the kind and compassion of an individual teacher to really make the difference and letting students know you care about them. Learning the proper amount of time and actions to take during that time was extremely beneficial to knowledge on this subject. In my future I will make an effort to be caring and compassionate and use my experiences to guide my decisions on how I handle the fall-out of traumatizing events that occur in my students lives.