Teaching & Assessment · learning path
The practical partner to Teacher Safety: audit your own classroom and school, map your hotspots, walk real incidents through the response sequence, choose your recourse and write a personal safety plan. Every MicroQuest on this shelf is free.
Take them in order, or jump to what you need. Each step is a complete MicroQuest with its own certificate.
Run a simple, honest audit of violence at your own school — which forms, which directions, how often, where and when — and turn a vague worry into patterns your SMT can act on.
A practical self-audit for teachers. Check which school policies you really know, where supervision in your classroom is thin, what you record, and whether your habits protect learners' dignity.
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.
Walk your school grounds, mark safe and unsafe places and the times they turn risky, pick the hotspot that matters most, and write one practical fix you can take to your SMT.
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.
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.
A parent threatens you at the gate. A learner posts a video of you. A colleague will not stop. Work through real school scenarios and choose the response that protects you — without overstepping.
Map who you tell, who acts and who follows up when something goes wrong at your school. Work through real scenarios and find the gaps where incidents fall through the cracks.
Look honestly at what stresses you at school, how you react and what it costs, then build a short personal plan with warning signs, resets and the people you can turn to for support.
For employers, schools and training providers
Toolbox talks, inductions, refreshers and revision that people finish, because each one fits in a tea break and runs on the phone they already carry.
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Print an A4 poster for the canteen, staffroom or site office. A scan opens the MicroQuest.
Every completion has a numbered certificate you can check online, which is useful for toolbox talks and inductions.
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