Looking at Education from A to Z: Acceptance

Title: Students' Sense of Belonging at School Is Important. It Starts With Teachers

Source: Blad, Evie. "Students' Sense of Belonging at School Is Important. It Starts With Teachers." Education Week, 21 June 2017, p. 8. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?

3 Discoveries
if a student feels they belong and have a place in the school enviroment, the more likely the will participate in the learning process there are educators who struggle with ways to ensure that students feel like they have a sense of belonging in their classrooms (based on disabilities, status, gender, race/ethnicity, etc.) a student is more likely to become disengaged if they do not feel that they belong in the current school environment, due to lack of diversity in curriculum, dress codes that go against various cultures, etc.

2 Ideas of Interest
it is recommended that teachers begin to focus on the individual strenghts of students in an effort to shut down stereotypes that students may have about others
school-community partnerships is an additional way to begin to support students who feel ostracized

1 Goal for me as an educator after reading this article is to... be more aware of students who may not see themselves presented in the curriculum and make every effort to get to know my students so I can have materials that better reflect the cultrues that they bring with them