This document discusses strategies for promoting a safe and positive social and cultural environment in schools. It outlines that teachers should provide a warm, supportive environment with low levels of fear. It also discusses the importance of schools being psychologically and physically safe for students, where they do not feel threatened and are protected from harm. The document then provides strategies for teachers, students, and parents to promote a safe school environment, such as developing social skills in students, creating buddy systems, and encouraging communication between schools and parents. Finally, it discusses how developing human relation skills like friendliness, maintaining a positive attitude, listening, and giving compliments can help create a positive environment.

1. SOCIAL CULTURAL
ENVIRONMENT
Prepared by:
Dg Syuhada Nabilah
Nurul Afiqah
Nur Faraheka
Siti Saleha

2. Contents
• Safe environment
a)Psychologically safe
b)Physically safe
c)Strategies in promoting a safe school
• Positive environment
a)Human relations skill

3. Safe Environment
• Teachers may safely proceed on the
premise that classrooms function best
when they provide a positive and
structured climate, one that reflects
warmth, support and pleasant
circumstanceswith very low levels of fear
(Fraser and O'Brien,1985).

4. Psychologically Safe
• Pupils do not feel threatened mentally or
physically.
• Pupils would feel safe if they know that
teachers are sensitive about their cultural
diversity.
• They would feel safe knowing that the
classroom is a place that does not practice
discrimination and has high tolerance
towards the cultural diversity.

5. Physically Safe
• The pupils are not harmed physically
either by their peers or teachers.
• Teachers should avoid punishing the
pupils physically.
• Teachers should always be seen as warm
and caring individuals who will protect
their pupils as they will protect their own
children.

6. • Learning will not be able to take place
naturally and effectively if the teachers
broke the trust that the pupils have in
them.

7. Strategies In Promoting a Safe
School
a)Working with teachers
- Teachers' role:
1.Helping pupils to develop social
competencies, problem-prevention skills
and coping skills
2.Emphasizing pro-social attitudes and
values about self, others and work
3.Avoids negative labelling and tracking

8. 4.Monitoring pupils' academic progress,
behaviour and attitudes on a regular basis
5.Nurturing role models who show supports,
warmth, mentoring and responsiveness to
pupils needs.

9. b) Working with pupils
1.Creating a buddy system in the classroom
in which current pupils help the new
arrivals
2.Getting the pupils involved in a class
project together such as a classroom
beautification campaign
3.Establishing pupils tip lines which provide
anonymous, non threatening way for
pupils to report school crime

10. c)Working parents and community
members
- Help parents to promote safe classroom
by:
1.Encouraging them to communicate with
teachers and making special effort to
know their children's friends and activities
at and away from school
2.Familiarising with the school safe policy,
and individual teacher's safe classroom
policy

11. Creating Positive Environment
• Human relations skills
– Enable people to interact pleasantly and
productively
– Four main skills: friendliness, maintaining a
positive attitude, ability to listen and ability
to compliment genuinely.

12. • Friendliness:
– Smiling, speaking in a considerate way, using
names, asking how they are, inquiring about
family and work.
• Maintaining a positive attitude:
– Looking at the bright sight of things
– Avoid complaining, faultfinding, or backbiting
behaviours
– Believe that all problems can be solved
– Deal with problems, not complaining about
them.

13. • Ability to listen:
– Shows genuine interest in the other person,
indicates that the other’s observations are
valued
– Enhance the quality of communication by
bringing out a genuine exchange of ideas
• Ability to compliment genuinely:
– Most people like to receive compliment
– Positive reaction towards individuals who
compliment them