Student Name
Journal Entry 1.f
It shall be unethical for a teacher to knowingly disregard the
safety
of his/her pupils
Group # 9 - Lxxxx Jyyyyyy,
Lxxx
Fyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Nxxx Beyyyyyyyyy
Brief description of the
skit(s):
During this role play, two on duty
teachers
discussed
their hair
while a student fell and hurt herself on
the
monkey
bars. Because
the teachers were not attempting to watch
the
playground
and
the injury could have been preventable
their
disregard
meant a
child getting hurt.
Important points that you
have
learned by watching the role play:
School playgrounds are crazy places so it is
difficult
for teachers
to see everything that is going on but teachers
have
a responsibility
to pay attention to the playground, not each
other.
In
this situation,
both of the teachers were on duty so they
should
have
been
watching different parts of the playground and
when
Suzy
fell,
only one of them should have attended to her so
that
the other
duty teacher would be able to watch the
playground.
Important points
that
you have learned through the discussion on the role play:
Some one [Insert names if you wish] in the
class said that even if a teacher
isn’t on duty, they have an obligation
to maintain the safety of the
students so they have the
authority to ask students to stop doing dangerous
things on the
playground. Another concern our class had was approaching
students we are not familiar with but it is
necessary for
us to
ensure they
are playing safely so we will have to approach
them
generally,
even if we don’t know their names.
Concerns I have, especially when we first
begin, are
the
questions “what is watching close
enough?”
and
“how do you
keep an eye on a whole playground?”. I was
informed
that as
long as I have notified the principal and told
them
it
is too
much for me to handle I won’t be held
responsible
if
something happens. Also, there is usually more
than
one
teacher
on duty.