Talking Points #3

I spent some time looking at the website. I read different articles to get a sense of what the website had to offer. I was able to read several articles to see if one in particular stood out to me and they all actually did. They all had something different to offer with helpful articles, advice and activities to make issues in schools more helpful for teachers. I really enjoyed how GLSEN showed all the possibilities for educators to deal with certain situations in specific ways. For example, how educators can talk about touchy topics but this website guides teachers the right way. I feel like this website taught me a lot of issues that I did not know existed in elementary schools, but sad to say it does happen & there are some teachers who do not address it especially if it is happening in their classrooms. As I was reading "Ready, Set, Respect!" It made me think about the students that I work with in my Service Learning. They are so young & it is hard to imagine that they could be bullying eachother or calling eachother names and there is not someone telling that it is not the right thing to do. This website has so many helpful tools not so much for teachers but even for students to deal with certain situations and how they can deal with these issues if they do not know who to turn to or if they need a little bit of a push to talk to someone when something is going wrong. I really did like how GLSEN offered lesson plans and special workshops  like No Name Calling Week. I feel like this particular activity would be so helpful because it is all of students working together to make a difference. I feel as if teachers took the time to recognize this website and took time to make it work in their classrooms and if administration did the same for their students, issues like the ones discussed would not be as high much so the students would understand how to deal with issues if they are faced with them or if they are experiencing it themselves.