The role of the teacher in child protection

The teacher can play the most important role in child protection.

What can teachers do for children's protection?

Parents take care of their children while children are at home. Society should take care that the children will not be in trouble after leaving the house. In school, it is the teacher's responsibility to look after the children. Some of these abuses can occur on school premises. Children are particularly vulnerable to out-of-home or out-of-school environments. A child in your class can be a victim of violence, abuse, and exploitation outside the school. In that case, you can't ignore it. Instead, you need to help the child. It is also possible only when you can recognize that a child is in trouble. Teachers should take the time to understand their children's problems and find the right solution.

Teachers should always keep in mind that your duty to protect children does not end when you leave the school grounds. Your positive intervention can change the life of a child who is out of the school system. You need to think more about children's issues as well as what you can do to help.

What can teachers do for children?

·            Understand the human rights of children and create such awareness in society.

·            Explain to your children the importance of regular attendance.

·            Be a friend, philosopher, and guide for the child.

·            Make your teaching method attractive, motivating, and informative. Avoid one-way communication and allow children to present their doubts.

·            Learn to recognize abuse, neglect, learning disabilities, and other invisible traits.

·            Build good relationships with children and encourage them to express their thoughts, worries, anxieties, fears, etc.  Try to engage the children in informal discussions.

·            Teachers need to be good listeners first. If children have similar problems at school or home, share them and discuss them in detail.

·            Encourage others to participate in cases that affect children's lives.

·            Hold children's meetings with school officials.

·            Discuss child rights issues with parents at PTA meetings.

·            Use positive reinforcement techniques such as communication and counseling to discipline children.

·            Do not discriminate. Take proactive steps to reach out to children from minorities and other discriminated groups.

·            Stop the negative stereotypes and discrimination against children in definite categories of children who need protection, sexual abuse, trafficking, domestic violence or drug abuse, and child abuse.

·            stop using child labor in your home and workplace.

·            Teachers have to know that the children have protected in the school and community, call the police during difficult times, and take legal action if they feel the need.

·            Encourage children to express their views in front of adults and the community.

·            Involve children in organizing events. Give them responsibilities and at the same time give them the necessary guidance.

·            Take the kids on a trip to a nearby place to enjoy the trip.

·            Engage children in discussions, debates, quizzes, and other fun activities.

·            Encourage girls 'education and participation through constructive measures in the classroom.

·            All teachers can help create and strengthen a protective environment around children.

·            Your observations are significant, as they will help assess the growth and progress of your classmate. If you see a problem, your next step is to explore what the probable cause might be.

·            Find out if a child is under pressure from family, relatives, or friends.

·            The teacher must have spent some time privately with the children, taking care that it does not create abuse or embarrassment.

Preserving the rights of HIV infected children

Provide sex education based on children's age and maturity level.

Teachers need to know about government schemes for children and what to offer them. Identify children and families who need help and can help with any of the current government schemes.  A list of such children and families hand over to your group, taluka Mandal Panchayat member, group development officer, group development, and panchayat officer, or community development and panchayat officer.

Parents or teachers can get help from the District Magistrate, Collector, the nearest Child Welfare Committee or the Child-Line Organization in your area.

Identifying children's sexual abuse

Identify signs of sexual abuse in children and adolescents. Girls have obvious sexual behaviors with other boys. Interact with sexually abused children. Eliminate guilt, embarrassment, humiliation, or fear in sharing this information with adults, unexcepted fear, improper knowledge. Talk to them about sleep disorders, nightmares, and nightmares.

Create awareness about children with disabilities

·            Preventing negative stereotypes about children with disabilities by avoiding negative words about physical or other movement disabilities. Creating a positive attitude in other children about them.

·            Teachers should constantly interact with other children with disabilities.

·            Allow disabled children to speak for themselves and encourage them to express their thoughts and feelings. Involve Divyang children in various projects and motivate their mutual participation.

·            Integrate positive ideas for disabled children into classwork, children's games, and other activities.

·            Discuss the essential needs of disabled children with parents, families, and carers.

·            Teach frustrated parents easy ways to meet and manage their child's needs and help maintain patience to prevent abuse of a disabled child.

·            Help guide siblings and other family members to reduce the pain and frustration of parents of disabled children.

·            Actively involve parents of disabled children in school planning and as a whole team member after-school activities.

Constructive disciplinary practices

·               Respect the child's dignity.

·               Develop social behavior, self-discipline, and character.

·               Increase the child's active participation in each event.

·               Respect the child's developmental needs and quality of life.

·               Assure honesty and changeable justice.

·               Increase unity among children.

Changing the school environment

·            The school needs to have a trained counselor for giving the necessary advice to children and their parents.

·            The school needs to have a social worker for generating positive peer response, family response, and community response.

·            Regular and periodic PTAs should become an essential feature. Parent-Teacher Association should provide a platform for communication between teachers and parents. They can communicate not just progress in the classroom but versatile development.

·            Basic facilities like toilets and drinking water for children should be made available on the school premises. Toilet facilities should be separate for boys and girls.

·            There should be no vendors in and around the school premises.

·            Schools and teachers have strictly discouraged child employment for domestic work establish the best practices followed by everyone in the society.

·            Developing peer groups is a good way for schools to investigate drug abuse or any class of school rehearsal that is taking place.

·            Develop and follow guidelines for disciplinary inquiry and action against teachers or other school staff for child sexual abuse on or off the school premises.

·            Schools should set up a Child Protection Monitoring Unit or a cell comprising children, parents, panchayat, and Municipal Council.