Weinstein states in Chapter 2 "Often, school environments provide physical security but fail to offer psychological security- the felling that is a good, comfortable place to be. Psychological security is becoming increasingly crucial as more and more youngsters liver in impoverished, unstable, and sometimes unsafe home environments. For the, in particular, schools must serve as a haven" (p. 34).
IN WHAT WAYS DOES PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY CONNECT TO SADOWSKI AND DELPIT DISCUSSION OF "SCHOOL DEPENDENT CHILDREN?" Using both the reading and your own experiences, WHY IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY important to be aware of and WORK FOR? Can you think of examples in your own life as students in middle or high school?
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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From what both books cover and what we have gone over in our T&L classes is getting to know your students. Forming that individual bond to make each student feel welcomed in school. As teachers, their is going to become a time where a student is going to connect with us and "cling" to you because that student doesn't have that support at home, that psychological security. I searched for more info on school dependent children, but failed to find anything that related to the topic. I feel that it is way more common than it is perceived to be. We don't know all of our students home-life. A school provides friends, teachers that hopefully care about them, and an opportunity to succeed. But for some students school is more than that. It's a warm place, school provides breakfast and lunch for those families who can't afford it, and it's a place for them to escape the reality of life at home. We can't provide psychological security at home, but we can at school and try to translate it to their home-life.
ReplyDelete- Nick J
I believe a psychologically safe environment is severely important in school. It is easy to protect students from the physical and create a safe environment but to make them feel safe in a psychological way is far more difficult.
ReplyDeleteI still believe this starts with knowing your students but more importantly, letting them know you. If the students know who their teacher really is then they'll in turn start to care about the teacher as well. This provides even more security in a stronger form of belonging. This way the relationship goes both ways and can encourage a better classroom environment. Students rely on school as a huge chunk of their life. They need it to be supportive but also building.
By building, I mean in a nurturing sense just like parenting. This will increase the students feeling of belonging and build their psychological security.
Just like the books have stating in getting to know all your students it is absolutely paramount in psychological well-being of the students and even the teacher.
Nicholas Duback
I agree. Letting your students get to know you as an individual will help gain trust, and build a healthy and caring relationship.
DeletePsychological security most definitely connects to the Delpit and Sadowski books due to this theme of create a safe environment where all students are not only afforded the opportunity to learn but are accepted into this classroom community. Nowadays psychological security has become increasingly more important in that bullying has adapted over time moving from psychical altercations to psychological warfare. Students are using racial, homophobic, transphobic, and sexist (just to name a few) slurs to attack anyone outside of the dominant culture. This is evident in all schools in every town/city. I vividly remember my days in middle and high school, where homosexual students, if found out, where harassed and ridiculed. Students openly bellowed gay slurs with little to no consequence; it reached the point where homosexual students refused to be open about their orientation, which has been made evident in recent months as three males from my graduating class, and five others from succeeding classes, have come out. That said, psychological security is an integral part of both creating community and establishing a safe environment for all students.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I want to apologize for being late to the party, I always forget about the blog!!!