I've just discovered these great toolkit on creating inclusive, learning friendly environments. They look really good!
The older toolkit has 6 booklets and the last of these has a focus on school health. Have a look. They are free to download. Here are some extracts from the introductory booklet and Booklet 6 to whet your appetite...
An inclusive, learning-friendly environment (ILFE) is one that welcomes, nurtures, and educates all children regardless of their gender, physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic, or other characteristics. They may be disabled or gifted children, street or working children, children of remote or nomadic peoples, children from linguistic, ethnic or cultural minorities, children affected by HIV/AIDS, or children from other disadvantaged or marginalized areas or groups.
This Toolkit was written specially for YOU! You may be a teacher in a pre-primary, primary, or secondary level classroom; a school administrator; a student enrolled in a teacher-training institution or one of its instructors; or just someone wanting to improve access to schools and learning for children who usually do not go to school, such as those with diverse backgrounds and abilities. This Toolkit will be especially valuable for teachers who are working in schools that are beginning to change into more child-centred and learning-friendly environments, possibly due to reforms introduced by the Ministry of Education, a non-governmental organization (NGO), or another project.
This Toolkit contains six Booklets, each of which contains tools and activities that you can do by yourself (self-study) to start creating an inclusive, learning-friendly environment. Some of these activities ask you to reflect on (think about) what you and your school are doing now in terms of creating an ILFE, while others actively guide you in improving your skills as a teacher in a diverse classroom. You might want to try these individual activities first, so you can become familiar with what is an ILFE, how it can be created in your classroom and school, and its benefits.
Booklet 6 contains the following:
- Creating Healthy and Protective Policies for ALL Children
- Advocating for School Health Policies
- Building Consensus
- Assessing and Monitoring
- Our School Health Policy Situation
- Dealing with Violence: Turning Policies into Action
- Giving Children Skills for Life!
- Skills-Based Health Education
- What Skills are Needed?
- How Can These Skills Be Taught?
- Skills-Based Health Education to Prevent HIV/AIDS
- Providing School Nutrition and Health Services and Facilities
- Assessing Our Current Situation
- School Food and Nutrition Programmes: Helping Children Who Do Not Eat Well
- Ideas for Creating a Clean School Environment
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