A student named Sam comes to class
everyday and prefers to stand in the back of the class when he can. One day he
came in and had bruises on his face. After I noticed the bruises I was think
about why he was so quite all the time and prefers to stands in the back. How
should a teacher deal with this?
If I was a teacher I would address
the situation but only after I had thought about what I wanted to do or say to
Sam. After I figured that out I would go to Sam and start a normal
conversation. If Sam told me that he didn’t want to talk about what is going
on, then I’d leave him alone until he felt like talking about it.
If he didn’t come to talk about it then I’d
talk with him again and tell him that I noticed that he bruises on his face and
was really quite in school. I’d make him feel comfortable and like he could
trust me. I’d suggest that Sam goes and talks to someone that is more
experienced with dealing with stuff like this and that he listened to them.
As a teacher I would have to bring
the bruises on Sam’s face to attention. I would have to talk with my supervisor
and Sam’s parents. In the Code Of Ethics Principle1 Commitment to the Student
number four says, “shall make reasonable effort to protect the student from
conditions harmful to learning or to health and safety.” With that being said I would probably contact
someone who could talk with the parents and Sam.
If that seemed to make the parents and Sam
upset I would take the time to explain that I care about Sam, and that whatever
is going on in Sam’s outside of school life is effecting his grades. I would
tell them how Sam’s behavior in school is and that I think it is because of how
his life is outside of school. That’s
how I would deal with that situation if I ever came across it.
