Cool Tool of the Week

Cool Tool of the Week

Wearing Your School ID

Expectation: Be responsible, Be safe.

Purpose of the lesson? Why is it important:

1.  To teach students a valuable life skill that in most work areas in this day and age one is required to wear an ID badge regardless of whether or not everyone knows you.

2.  To teach students that the ID’s help the staff members supervise the building in that they know who belongs where and if at all.

3.  To inform students that wearing ID’s is a safety measure.

Teaching Examples: The following presents situations that your students might find themselves in. Use these examples to discuss with your students the importance of wearing an ID in the school.

·  A teacher notices a student coming down the hallway at a time when no students are to be in the hall. The teacher also notices that the student has no ID. Upon further questioning it is determined that the student is not a Pierce student, but a high school student. Discuss what could have happened had the teacher not stopped the student.

·  Discuss with students the importance of wearing the ID: the color of the ID, why it has to be around neck and visible, how we know where a student is supposed to be based on the ID. You may also want to discuss safety reasons for the ID.

Student Activities/Role Plays:

1.  Role-play any of the above situations.

2.  Small group discussion on any of the above situations and come back as a class and compare/contrast answers.

Follow-up/Reinforcement Activities:

1.  Praise students who come in wearing their ID’s (especially notorious no-id students). Pirate Bucs could be passed out. (Occasionally pass out Bucs to all in the class who are wearing ID’s, especially in the first few days of doing the Cool Tool. Another suggestion would be to give everyone a Pirate Buc or two if the everyone in the class is properly ID’d that day.)

2.  Reward 100% ID rate for a week with special prize: Pirate Bucs, a few E.C. pts, etc.