0.3 Health education course, chapter 4 - childhood psychological  (Page 5/6)

___ We strive to stay aware of put-downs expressed by students or staff, especially those that involve the use of slurs orderogatory names or remarks.

___ We respond immediately to put-downs, slurs and derogatory names or remarks (rather than ignoring or excusing them).

Need for Autonomy (Power and Control)

___ We accept the importance of students learning decision-making and self-management skills.

___ We encourage kids to set goals and evaluate options in order to take responsibility for solving their own problems, rather than"rescuing" them or telling them what they should do.

___ We allow students to self-manage with regard to materials and resources.

___ We encourage students to self-manage their personal needs within clearly stated boundaries (ex: drinking water orusing the rest rooms as needed)

___ We allow and encourage students to have input in and make decisions about their learning (topics, presentation, media,sequence, assignments, need for additional practice, readiness for the next skill or topic, etc.)

___ We allow and encourage students to have input in and make decisions about how, where and with whom they work.

___ We hold students accountable for their behavioral choices without blaming, shaming, attacking or punishing (ex:withholding positive outcome, privileges, credit for work due)

___ Students are encouraged to initiate and take risks regarding their own learning.

___ We allow and encourage students to create, design, request or renegotiate projects and assignments to make them personallymeaningful and relevant.

Need for Recognition, Attention and Emotional Safety

___ We attempt to recognize positive behavior with statements that emphasize a positive outcome or meaningful benefit to thestudents, rather than using statements that emphasize the students' worth ("goodness"), our happiness or pleasure, or the students' ability toplease us.

___ We attempt to reinforce positive behavior by allowing positive outcomes to occur, continue or become available,contingent, for example, on work completion or non-disruptive behavior.

___ We attempt to meet students' needs for attention in positive, constructive and proactive ways in order to diminish thetendency for them to act out to get these needs met.

___ We strive to stay aware of changes in patterns in students' behavior and to maintain a sense of how students are doing (thatis, not just focusing on their academic performance).

___ We attempt to create emotional safety by noticing and supporting students in crisis.

___ We provide appropriate outlets for students in crisis.

___ Our students know that if they need to talk, we are willing to listen (or set a time when we can listen, or refer them to someonewho can listen).

___ We respect students' needs for confidentiality to the degree that doing so will not put that student or anyone else in danger.

___ We strive to maintain awareness of how students treat one another.