Skip to main content

Student Mental Health In School

 This is an Action Project for my core class Social Entrepreneurship. In this unit, we have been learning about SWOT analysis and how we can better GCE with it. This Unit, we were also visited by a counselor who works with businesses for legal advice. This helped us figure out what all we need to have prepared for our interviews. Overall it was an interesting Unit. For this project, we were tasked with analyzing our school to look for something that needs improvement in the school. We needed to follow SWOT analysis and interview four people about the school and find what they think can be improved or changed in GCE. For this AP, I decided to focus on the betterment of student outreach in GCE. Right now GCE has done a great job with outreach, yet there is still room for improvement. I will go into more detail in the paragraphs below. 



Student Mental health is something that is one of the most important things when it comes to a school. If a student is not doing well, it can lead to them falling behind in class or socially. GCE Lab School has overall done an amazing job at communicating with students about their mental health. If a student is having trouble mentally, they can reach out to the student counselor. The school also has something called connections. In connections, the student counselor talks with students about a variety of things. For example, some of the topics that they talk about is college, if they have complaints, if they are having trouble in a class, or even what they ate for breakfast. Something else GCE has are peace circles. Peace circles are meant for students and cohorts to talk about problems they have faced with each other. They are typically called when there is an argument or if something intense happens. Overall, GCE does a better job with connecting with their students than any other public school. There is a chance for a tragedy of the commons situation. If one student decides to talk up too much of the resource that is our student counselor, then it would leave less outreach for other students in the school who might actually need help. In my project, I am looking at these from four different perspectives. Two are students, and two are teachers who go to GCE. I chose these people because of how they work within GCE. First I chose a senior student who has been apart of all of the main points I talk about. Second I chose a teacher who is new to GCE so I can challenge his new perspective on GCE. Third I chose GCE's school counselor because she knows and leads connections and peace circles. Lastly, I chose a junior student who has been at GCE since freshman year and is also the junior representative. 

For GCE the main concern is not having enough time to speak with the counselor and not being able to talk to the teachers due to their lack of experience. My proposed "solution" would be to create more days and extended time for connections. This would result in students having more opportunities for them to talk to the student counselor about whatever they need or even just to work on homework if they need to. I also believe that letting a select few of teachers that are open and willing to receive training in order to handle serious situations professionally without harming their mental health even more. I was able to come to this conclusion because of the information that was provided by my four interviews. They all pretty much said that allowing teachers and staff to get training would prove to be effective in GCE. I believe that having more than one Kiley as well would give more opportunities to reach Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is basically levels that show what someone needs. The levels are Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, Esteem, and Self-Actualization. They also said that connections is one of the best ways to get students to talk to the student counselor in a safe space. This resulted in them saying more/longer connections would prove to be very effective. I think it's good to have GCE's connections because it is one of the things that sets the school apart from public schools. It makes them more approachable when it comes to mental health outreach.


Overall, this Action Project was a memorable one. It allowed me to take a deeper look into my school and explain how it can improve. Student Mental health is one of the most important things when it comes to a school so being able to research and help the school improve its outreach for it was something I am proud of. If I could change something about this AP it would be my questions for my first interview because I wasn't as prepared for that one like I was for the rest of them. Aside from that, I am happy with my project and I am looking forward to the next one.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Cardboard Camera?

 This is an Action Project for my core class Light, Sound, and Time. During this Unit, we learned all about light and how it works. We also learned about how light is a part of the visible spectrum. This is a spectrum that shows the types of waves/rays that are on earth. The visible spectrum is also how we see colors. This has also helped us better understand what light is and how we use it to take pictures. For example, when you take a picture using a camera, light is used to leave a image captured onto a surface. For this project, I was tasked with making a camera from a tissue box. The camera I made is called a Camera Obscura. This camera takes light and through a little hole pastes the image onto a piece of parchment paper inside of the camera. As you can see below, those photos were taken from inside the camera when held up to a light. It also shows what the camera looks like and how it turned how after creating it. Pinhole of Camera Obscura/CJH/2021 Image of Light in Camera/CJH/2
2 comments
Read more

What is a Hysterectomy?

Welcome to my blog. This is an Action Project for my core class Cure. In this unit, we have been at home talking about cells, what they are, and what they are made up of. We have also taken the time to look at different types of surgeries. Also, we had two special FE guests join us through Zoom and teach us about themselves and what they know to help us get a clearer understanding. The two guests who joined us were Dr. Neeraj Jain and Kellee Athens. For this assignment, we were tasked with interviewing someone who has had any surgery performed on them. For the interview, I chose to interview someone about the surgery they had done. The surgery that was performed was a Hysterectomy which is the removal of the uterus. I have put together a slideshow below explaining all of the risk factors, side effects, and much more detail on how the surgery is performed. "No dietary restrictions. I was super groggy and just slept a lot. I was in the hospital for 1 or 2 days. It took me a week to
1 comment
Read more

Drawing for 12 Hours with Only a Pen

 This is a project for my core class Endurance. For this project, I spent twelve hours doing one thing. This class was all about what is endurance? We started the course by defining endurance and looking at historic people who had to. endure something for a specific amount of time. I spent time trying to figure out what you need in order to endure something for a period of time. In order to endure something, you have to be strong-willed, unbreakable, and willing to face hardship and know that it won't be fun or pleasant. So what is endurance? Endurance is being able to push through a hardship/inconvenience. Being able to endure something is one of the hardest things in the world. Especially when it isn't something you choose to do. Forced endurance is something that many people throughout history had to go through. A specific example we looked at was Ellie Wiesel and how he and his family and his whole culture was tortured and killed over the span of years. Ellie lost all of hi
Post a Comment
Read more