Concurrent Session:
An Apple for the Teacher: SRV in the Classroom

An Apple for the Teacher: SRV in the Classroom

This presentation will focus on the experience of teaching in public schools in North America, and the insight SRV can provide into various modern practices that appear to cause devaluation and wounding in the most vulnerable students.  It will look at several themes of SRV, including Model Coherency and Purview, Interpersonal Identification, and the Conservatism Corollary. By connecting these themes to practices in modern education and  by highlighting how practices lacking the discipline of SRV often lead to an increase in wounding experiences for the participants, the presenter will then focus on synthesizing the experiences of several of the devalued students taught, focusing on the wounding experiences these students have faced, while also illustrating how an incoherent response to the students by the school system led to even further devaluation and wounding. The final portion of the presentation will highlight the benefits of a SRV approach to supporting struggling students, contrasting this with the approach taken by many public school systems.

Presenters

Stephen Tiffany​

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Stephen Tiffany is an elementary school educator living in Kingston, Ontario. He has worked in the field of human services for 20 years, supporting people in a wide variety of settings. In past years, he has presented at many SRV and SRV-related workshops and has published several articles in the SRV Journal. His current focus is on helping struggling readers increase their reading capabilities through a science based, phonics approach.​