FOCAL TEACHERS TRAINED IN SAFE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

    

focal teachers after the training

A two days training of focal teachers was conducted on Safe School Environment and was attended by 24 teachers (11m, 13f) in Kibiito town council at Travellers nest. The training was attended by the DEO, DIS and other experts in safe school environment as facilitators.

 

focal teachers during training

On the first day, the DEO presented about the components of a safe school environment and the facilitator of the day kaliba Charles presented about the corporal punishment description and effects, government position on corporal punishment and understanding children behavior. Participants were tasked to identify the negative and positive consequences of corporal punishments Consequences of corporal (physical, social and emotional ) Physical harm, increased dropout, trauma, hatred, law performance, aggressiveness, death, indiscipline, social misfit/lack of sense of belonging were some of the negative consequences of punishment given. From the discussions on negative and positive consequences of corporal punishments members realized that corporal is bad and this was based on the points of negative consequences that overshadowed the positive consequences.

 Followed by the Remarks from the inspector of schools on the second day of the training who highlighted about the positive teaching and learning environment to the focal teachers, the district’s effort to promote good school environment by providing enough classrooms, paying teachers, orienting committees on their roles and responsibilities, recruiting qualified personnel in the education department. The facilitator the day Ms Harriet Masika trained about positive discipline within safer school, steps for creating a safe and violence free school, alternative techniques to corporal punishment. It was agreed from the training that the focal teachers are to train the non-teaching and teaching staff, form clubs, guide children to develop talking compound messages and hold VAC sessions in their respective schools.

focal teachers presenting their specific action points