Multimedia Week Video 2: Under Siege
This video from Teacher’s TV, shows how events occurring outside of the two West Bank schools can have a huge impact on the lives of both teachers and pupils. One month into an already stressful term and the two schools, King Talal boys’ school and Hajja Rushda girls’ school, are having to deal with the day-to-day realities of living under an occupation while attempting to teach and learn. A raid by the Israeli army on a nearby refugee camp brings chaos to the schools as well as tragedy for one of the students.
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Resource Highlight
Creating Healing Classrooms: Guide for Teachers and Teacher Educators. The importance of teacher training and support for restoring nurturing developmental opportunities cannot be overstated. With the protection and psychosocial needs of children in mind, trained teachers can communicate critical lifesaving messages, model caring adult behavior and help reestablish children’s trust; they have the potential to create a climate in the classroom that helps children heal. IRC, 2006
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Abdulai A. Sulley Apr 20, 2010
Keeping students and pupils under such stressful conditions as it is in the case of King Talal boys’ school and Hajja Rushda girls’ school in Palestine and other places around the globe is against humanitarian laws including the Marten’s clause. There are even instances where some teachers in environmentally serene communities use similar models as a tool to still discipline in students, which I feel is still wrong. I believe strongly that more students are getting “off the road” these days because, the desire for material and monetary gains have overshadowed the need to nurture, sustain and develop students.
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