Emergencies

=Are you prepared for emergencies?=

Research
Below are resources to read or to watch. Any with an asterisk are required for you to use. Otherwise, select 3 or more to read/view/absorb. Additionally, using appropriate college-level research skills, you must find a resource not on this list that gives you additional insights to this topic. A professional interview with an expert-in-the-field is an appropriate resource. (3 of mine and 1 of yours is the required minimum...feel free to use more resources...see me if you want to substitute some of yours for mine.)

The topic of emergencies is broad and varied. You may choose to focus on one type of emergency or a variety of emergencies.
 * Snow/power outage/school cancellation (see "A different research option" below)
 * Intruder/shooter
 * [|Australia school has shooter-in-school drill]
 * [|Augusta police, fire units train for worst-case emergency at Hodgkins school]
 * [|Florida district criticized by parents for unannounced "active shooter" drill]
 * [|Teachers train to face a school shooter]
 * Though not directly related to grades 7-12, thinking about this on a timely, personal level is appropriate: [|How some universities are now responding to emergency situations]
 * Fire
 * [|How to prepare and lead in a fire drill]
 * [|An Autistic's experiences with fire drills]

A DIFFERENT RESEARCH OPTION: Simone T. and Rachel J. did their entire Classroom Management Textbook Chapter Presentation in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story format in fall 2011. Everyone drew a playing card that told you which color team you were on and what character you were. Choices were Dr. Grace, Beth, or Dr. Theresa. You can only imagine the fun students had learning about Planning, Preparedness and Time Management in that adventure. If you go through the entire Choose Your Own Adventure story and actually read the information, watch the videos, and follow the links, you can count that as your research.

Reflect
Create a reflection (write/record/document) in your personal digital classroom management kit that captures your reflections on your research. It should be apparent from your documentation that you actually took in information from the four sources, i.e. don't just list the book you read or the video you watched, but include some actual information from the resource. In your reflection you can agree and/or disagree with the author/creator(s) of the resource.

Resolve -- Proactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? How will you apply it to how you want to manage your classroom? Describe one or more proactive approaches to this topic that you hope to incorporate into your classroom management.

Resolve -- Reactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? Even though you have a great proactive approach to dealing with this topic, there will come the day when the unexpected situation will arise in this area. Using the given scenario or creating one of your own, describe one or more reactive approaches you might take. Be sure to document how/why you know this is an effective reactive technique (i.e., cite one or more of your research sources).

Scenario

 * It's your first year teaching and you are reviewing your evacuation procedures in case of fire as well as your school's procedures for lock downs and other emergencies. You realize that you totally disagree with one of the procedures as it relates to your room. What do you do and why?