Schools

Question 1

What are some individual differences with schooling?

Answer 1

Student engagement. Happiness in schools is determined by relationships, so how do we help youth get more engaged.

Question 2

What characteristics does a fully engaged adolescent have?

Answer 2

Affective (enjoyable), behaviour (effort), and cognitive (sees value)

Question 3

What characteristics does a recreationally engaged student have?

Answer 3

Affective and behavioural

Question 4

What characteristics does a mentally engaged student have?

Answer 4

Affective and cognitive (why no effort?)

Question 5

What characteristics does a purposefully engaged student have?

Answer 5

Behavioural and cognitive

Question 6

What characteristics does a pleasurably engaged student have?

Answer 6

Affective.

Question 7

What characteristics does busily engaged student have?

Answer 7

behavioural

Question 8

What characteristics does a rationally engaged student have?

Answer 8

Cognitive

Question 9

What caracteristics does a disgengaged student have?

Answer 9

None- The group we are most worried about-higher possibility of drop out. Being disengaged in school affects the whole life trajectory

Question 10

What are some microsystem influences?

Answer 10

Peer attitudes, caregiver involvment, class size and climate, school size and climate, school safety

Question 11

How do peer attitudes affect schooling?

Answer 11

Influence how engaged youth are.

Question 12

What is mainstreaming?

Answer 12

When special classes are mixed with normal classes-reduces stigma, but may make things more challenging for youth who need more help.

Question 13

What 2 microsystem influences are big predictiors of student well-being and academic achievement?

Answer 13

Class and school climate.

Question 14

What makes a good school and class climate?

Answer 14

Students feel they are connected and belong, but there are also rules and boundaries. Emphasis is on educational/intellectual activities. Fosters learning. Teachers have the freedom and autonomy to teach the best way, trained in adolescence, well-integrated into community.

Question 15

What makes a positive class climate?

Answer 15

Students are engaged, the teachers care, and there are boundaries

Question 16

What is tier 1 on the school mental health model?

Answer 16

80-85% of the students. Represents the majority. Universal strategies that help all students (ex: social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, positive behaviours, and healthy relationships)

Question 17

What is tier 2 on the school mental health model?

Answer 17

5-15% of students. More targeted spport-students who are at risk. Short-term, group based interventions, trauma, emotional learning etc

Question 18

What is tier 3 on the school mental health model?

Answer 18

2-7% of students. Specialized interventions. 1 on 1 clinical interventions, health services are more important than school services in this case

Question 19

What are some specific activities for schools to promote a positive environment?

Answer 19

1) Identify, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of tier 1 supports
2) Promote social-emotional learning competencies through direct instruction and school wide activities
3) Support early intervention (tier 2) efforts

Question 20

What are some specific activities for teachers to promote a positive environment?

Answer 20

1) Provide tier 1 and 2 supports as a daily teaching practice
2) Look for opportunities that support social emotional learning, resiliency, and mental health literacy.

Question 21

What are some mesosystem influences?

Answer 21

Class climate and peer behaviour, school climate and class climate

Question 22

What are some exosystem influences?

Answer 22

Neighbourhood safety, and community resources

Question 23

What are some macrosystem influences?

Answer 23

Academic streaming, school funding, education policies

Question 24

What is academic streaming?

Answer 24

Students in different levels of courses based on competency-good if student is already doing well, but lots of bias as to which track a student should be in.

Question 25

What can happen if school funding is cut?

Answer 25

Detrimental to student learning

Question 26

What is the achievement gap?

Answer 26

There is a gap in achievement between white and non-white students which suggests a racial deficit, but we should reframe this as an opportunity gap.

Question 27

What are some chronosystem influences?

Answer 27

School segregation, residential schools, policy changes, school transitions

Question 28

What was the study done on supporting transitions in Indigenous students from reserve schools to regular high schools?

Answer 28

A program to help connect them to their culture and get mentored by a peer. This study showed that after the program, indigenous youth had significantly better mental health and higher cultural connections (example of a tier 2 program)

Question 29

When did the last segregated school in Canada close?

Answer 29

1983 in Nova Scotia

Question 30

When did the last residential school close?

Answer 30

1996 in Saskatchewan