Creating a Caring School: Toolkit Introduction
This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a ?how to? manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the... more
Creating a Caring School: Toolkit Cover
This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a ?how to? manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the... more
Creating a Caring School A Toolkit for School Management Teams with Accompanying Guide - Cover
This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams.Learning Guide: Unit 8 - Developing a school-based care and support plan.
Unit 8 is a planning unit. The insights gained from the previous units and the activities you completed up to now are building blocks that culminate in a well-considered integrated and coherent strategic plan of care and support for your school. Unit 8 is entirely activity driven and each activity is part of the planning process that results in an informed plan to create a supportive... more
Learning Guide: Unit 7 - Counselling support for vulnerable learners.
This unit explores the role of the school management team (SMT) in managing a strategy for the school to identify and support vulnerable learners holistically. This strategy will involve teachers at the level of the classroom and will examine a simple system for referring vulnerable learners to the appropriate services for help. more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams.Learning Guide: Unit 6 - School-based aftercare.
In this unit we take a closer look at these initiatives and discuss the different approaches to aftercare that we encountered. We reflect on the role of school management in aftercare initiatives for vulnerable learners and also on how the community and local businesses can be drawn in to support such initiatives. Considering various contexts, we conclude by reflecting on the kind of... more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams.Learning Guide: Unit 5 - Good nutrition for learning.
We start off Unit 5 with a story that encourages you to reflect on a key question: Why should the provision of nutritious food for vulnerable children be a central concern for school management? We look to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory to understand the link between nutrition and learning. His theory suggests that higher cognitive levels of performance depend on basic needs being... more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Learning Guide: Unit 4 - Networks of care and support.
Networking and the formation of partnerships is not an optional extra; it must become an integral part of the strategy to manage sustainable support for vulnerable learners. This is the focus of our reflections in Unit 4. We start by looking at a few practical examples of how schools have managed networking with external partners and what kind of support they provided for vulnerable learners... more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Learning Guide: Unit 3 - Care for vulnerable learners
In Unit 3 we place the spotlight on learners and investigate what we mean by vulnerable learners, what challenges they face, and why the school can be such a powerful and positive influence in their lives. We hope that deeper insight into the plight of vulnerable learners will motivate you and your management team to put in place simple information gathering system that enables you to... more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Learning Guide: Unit 2 - Schools as centres of care.
In Unit 2 we start off by examining relevant policies and guidelines dealing with education issues relating to HIV and AIDS in the South African context and probe the reasons for the gap between policy and practice. We reflect on three case studies that show what some schools are doing to provide care and support for vulnerable learners. These scenarios act as a stimulus for creating a... more
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