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.
By the end, you can
apply risk and protective factors to a real learner or school situation and choose a respectful, practical response.
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Risk Factors in Practice: Real Learners, Your School
Why is it like this?
The SACE programme asks a simple question after every map of where violence happens: why is it like this?
Answering it well is harder than it sounds. It is easy to slide from "this learner has risk factors" to "this learner is a problem" — and a child who is treated as a problem often becomes one. 🧭
This MicroQuest is practice. You will work through three learners and then your own school, using risk and protective factors to find something useful to do.
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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.
Apply the four stages to three school incidents — a fight at break, a knife in a bag and a parent shouting in the corridor — and see what each stage asks you to do.
Test your instincts on realistic school situations — WhatsApp groups, play-fights, a teacher's put-down, a leaked photo — and learn to sort violence from conflict, and what to do first.
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