Strategies for Helping Students Cope with Natural Disasters, Thesis of Management Accounting

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Performance Assessment Task 5: D Western Governors University Schools as Communities of Care-D A. The hypothetical scenario I choose is a tornado hitting a town. The entire population of the town was involved and effected in some way. Damage such as destroyed buildings, power outages, roads destroyed, physical injuries, and even death occurred. The situation effects the students by frightening them for their own safety. The stress they feel may impact their learning by causing short focus. Also, if the power goes out at the school the students will not be able to attend in person until it is restored. If the power goes out at their home, they do not have access to electricity to see at night for their studies, or access to Wi-Fi to access their homework online. B. I believe having a school-wide discussion on the natural disaster that just occurred and feelings that the students may be feeling is an effective strategy I would use in helping students cope with the aftermath. I believe going room to room to deliver an age-appropriate talk to each grade level would work best to tailor to the students’ individual emotional needs and how to best address them. They will have the ability to build peer support networks amongst each other during the discussion by hearing each other’s’ questions and stories they each share. It is a way for each student to really process and understanding everything that has happened. Discussing with their peers will encourage them to also discuss how they are feeling with their families at home. This would help them students both at school and at home by allowing them to process their emotions and understand what all has happened. It will teach them positive strategies to cope with the stress they are feeling. If a student has an accelerated heart rate caused by fear, the

physical symptoms associated with this will disrupt the students focus on classwork and on homework at home. A strategy such as deep breathing can get the student to calm down, lower their heart rate, and enhance their focus. They may even teach a family member at home some of the coping strategies they learn that they can utilize as well. One challenge I may experience from this strategy is causing students who have been severely impacted by the tornado personally may be triggered by the discussion and get hyper, sad, angry, etc. These would be students impacted in ways such as their home being destroyed or their loved one lost their life in the storm. I will need to be very sensitive with my discussion and use caution. I would overcome this challenge by identifying all the students in the school that has been impacted in extreme ways and have a mental health professional like a psychologist who is better equipped for addressing situations like these deliver the speech to the class.