Why Arming Teacher In the school shooting issue is a bad idea?
Lesson Plan
Eric He
Objectives:
1-2
1) Students will understand the current seriousness of school shooting
2) Students will identify all the comments and attitudes toward resolutions of the school shooting, especially at arming teachers
3) Students will analyze the disadvantages and problems of arming teachers
Lesson:
3 A) Ask questions of Arming students (Hook); Source: (Kendall) (Investor's Business Daily)) – 1 min
3. - Ask students to guess how many students experiencing gun violence every year
- do a vote on arming teachers
1 min
4- How are the stats like for normal people?
Show the fact
5 B) Give examples of School Shootings (Introduction); Source: (Kendall) – 2 min
Families' dream of the future of their children have vanished
5 -More and more School Shootings taking place in America
-Families begin to concern about whether their children are safe in the school
- Protecting students is certainly a concern for millions of families in America
2 min
6 What should we do?
Arming teachers?
7 Q: More Guns or No Guns?
- Arming Teachers?
-The situation would be worse if there are already guns in the school that students might have access to it.
C) Why No (Lecture); Source: (Thweatt) (Portland press Herald) – 5 min
- Not effective or useful.
- Incorrectly arming teachers would carry negative outcomes
- May not be as persuasive enough as people think it is
- Potential dangers and limitations of giving teacher guns
- Staff members do not have any experience of fighting against the attacker
- A problem of the increase of the salary of the school employees
- Schools should use think more about how to prevent School Shooting and find a feasible solution
5 min
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8 D) Play School Shooters and Victims (Activity) – 5 min
- Students randomly draw lots and feel the difference of armed teachers and unarmed teachers
- Students will review and discuss
9 E) Better Ways to Prevent School Shooting (Lecture); Source: (Portland press Herald) (Gomez)– 2 min
9.
- Other ways to be prepared for the School Shooting that is better than arming teachers
hiring more psychologists, counselors and social workers they can serve as mentors to help the students who struggle with depression, and other psychological diseases.
how to prevent the School Shooting other than defend it when it took place.
how to prevent the School Shooting other than defend it when it took place.
2 min
10 - Arming the teachers in the school is not always a well-considerate solution. People should consider more on preventing the tragedy to happen instead of fighting to deal with it when it happens.
10 Q:What are your impression of this? (after seeing the picture)
Do you still think arming teacher is still a good idea?
Definitely Not! (Sorry Try Again)
2 min
F) Epilogue; Source: (Thweatt) – 1 min
- School Shooting has become a national problem in the United States.
-Preventing School Shooting is not only the responsibility of schools but also the responsibility of the society. g
- Arming teacher is not a solution to the problem, and it might cause dangers
- Other better solutions may work better than arming the teachers in certain circumstances
11. Materials:
-Google Slides
- Photos of Criticising Arming Teachers
- Powerpoint Page of Statistics
- Draws
- Fake Guns
Bibliography
Gomez, Melissa. "Training to Carry Firearms Where they'Re Not Allowed." New York
Times, 13 Jun. 2018, pp. A.15. SIRS Issues Researcher, Web, Oct 26, 2018.
The goal of the program, called School-Age Trauma Training, is 'to enhance a bystander's ability to take decisive, life-saving action to assist victims with traumatic injuries,' this article provides details of the program, which will "include training on medical triage and mass casualty survival techniques." It can help me with the problem that there is a lot of information about the practical problem when facing the problems of arming the teachers.
Investor's Business Daily. "No, There Haven't Been 18 School Shootings This Year — Not Even
Close". Proquest, 2019,
https://search.proquest.com/docview/2002299866/7F9947B161DD4EDCPQ/10?accounti
d=338. Accessed 31 Jan 2019.
Although the author’s point is about how the new companies distort the truth in order to ban the guns, I am still able to scrape the useful information from the article about the headline news’ attitude about the school shooting to support my idea.
Kendall, Clarke. "Taking A Stand Against Gun Violence". Proquest.Com, 2018,
https://search.proquest.com/docview/2031121707/3ED88501BF0E4F3EPQ/11?accountid
=338. Accessed 31 Jan 2019.
The author strongly expresses his point about school shootings in America. He has a different way of approaching his idea about school shooting by providing ample details. I took his example of speeches against school shooting to make my thesis stronger.
"School Officers have to be Ready for the Ordinary." Portland Press Herald, 12 Sep.
2018, pp. A.1. SIRS Issues Researcher, Web. Oct 26, 2018.
This viewpoint article points out that the vast majority of police officers in schools "will never be involved in a shooting" but they have to be prepared to deal with "students who are angry, frustrated and anxious on a daily basis." It is a great paper for me to look at because the author has a clear topic and a strong statement.
Thweatt, David. "I'm a Superintendent. My School District Decided to Arm Teachers."
Washington Post - Blogs, 23 Mar. 2018, pp. n/a. SIRS Issues Researcher,
www.sks.sirs.com/webapp/article?artno=404393&type=ART
It is good sources because it gives actual examples. Not only the actual examples, but the author also shows his points by having many arguments. This article reports on the reaction of insurance companies to the proposal to arm school employees, noting that they are worried that "more guns in schools might not only fail to stop mass shootings but lead to more accidents."