Risk Factors in Practice: Real Learners, Your School
Apply risk and protective factors to three case learners and to your own school — spotting what adds risk, what already protects, and what the school can do — without labelling any child.
Work through the conflicts that actually happen in your classroom and at your gate, compare two ways of handling each, and prepare your own room and plan before the next one.
By the end, you can
size up a classroom conflict with three quick questions, compare possible responses and choose the one that keeps everyone safe.
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Conflict in Your Classroom — Working Through Real Scenarios
Your classroom, not a textbook
Knowing de-escalation techniques is one thing. Using them at 13:40 with forty learners watching is another.
This MicroQuest is practice: real situations, two responses to compare, and your own class in mind. 🏫
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Map Your Own School's Hotspots, Step by Step
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Apply risk and protective factors to three case learners and to your own school — spotting what adds risk, what already protects, and what the school can do — without labelling any child.
Three paired classroom cases — a phone stand-off, a break-time fight, a learner who swears at you. Compare an escalating response with a professional one and learn to name exactly why one is better.
Learn to notice the signs that a learner or a conflict is heading towards violence, what to do with each sign, and write a one-page safety plan for your own class.
Take the punishments you reach for when you are tired and under pressure, and replace them one by one with responses that teach — in real classroom scenarios.
How a group of teachers can talk honestly about violence they have lived through — house rules, what confidentiality covers and what it cannot, never forcing a story, and looking after yourself and others.
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Conflict in Your Classroom — Working Through Real Scenarios
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