Establishing and Maintaing a Safe and Supportive Learning Environment

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Establishing and maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment, is essential in creating a construction workshop that is clean, well-organized and where students feel and are safe. It should be arranged so that all the resources that may be required are within easy reach and available in order that you do not have to stop teaching. Because of the inherent dangers within the workshop environment all students are required to wear personal protective equipment and observe all safety rules concerning the use of tools and operation of machinery they are also responsible for ensuring that all tools are fit for purpose prior to use. All students are expected to act appropriately and take responsibility for their own and everyone else’s Health and Safety within the workshop. The vocational nature of the qualification that our students undertake is of a very structured nature with students developing skills required to undertake practical assessments, as a result of this the learning that takes place allows students to develop at their own pace and to a level that allows them to achieve their full potential. I also apply the same principles whenever I use a classroom making it a welcoming environment that is conducive to learning, I actively encourage students to participate in my lessons and I believe that no student should ever be afraid to ask a question or give an answer to a question in any of my classes. I make the work given to students appropriate to their ability and wherever possible use examples and illustrations that are relevant to their environment outside of school. In developing and promoting appropriate behaviour within school, we have adopted ground rules that students are aware of from the very beginning; we do not tolerate bullying, racial comments, discrimination of any form, inappropriate language or disrespectful behaviour all of which

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