Chapter 8: A Safe and Healthy School Environment

This chapter focuses on creating a safe and healthy environment in your school. One important thing that the chapter talked about was that by having good school/classroom rules. While we always think of rules as a way to make our lives easier, they also act as a way to make students feel safe and secure in the classroom. I had never thought of it that way before. The chapter continues to talk about how creating a safe environment in the classroom is by making students of other races feel comfortable. It talks about the issue that we only teach about other races once a month, or when there is a holiday. As a future social studies educator, I am going to make sure that other races are talked about, and that they are not made as a special case. That it is just part of the history, especially since they are a very special part of history. Health and physical education is talked about in this chapter as well. Having gym in schools has proven to show that students do better academically. They also are more apt to stay away from drugs and alcohol when they know how it affects their bodies. All in all promoting a safe and healthy environment in the school is a very important thing that needs to be done more often.