Education is the only way out of poverty. Socially, emotionally and economically young people living in poverty are more likely to have experienced ACES and will have additional challenges in regards to regulating and processing their own emotions. Within a learning environment with a high density of young people living with this challenge, it is the duty of the teacher and school systems to support and create an environment that is empowering, stimulating and encouraging, but most of all. SAFE!
My professional actions and personal values play a distinct role in ensuring that my teaching and professional leadership of a team are supportive of creating a safe learning environment within this structure.
With experience of being an MTV leader, with training in applying nurturing principles as a whole school system and from completing an emotional literacy course with LIFELINK. I am still working towards a more refined and deepened understanding of the link between pupils having the sense of self to be able to feel confident in exploring how they learn to enable them to control their interactions when they are learning!
