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Cikgu Vanny is posted to a school in a rural school and wants to bring awareness to the reality and plight of the community there. She began to use Tik Tok to do so. She was able to gain many followers in a short period of time because of her bubbly personality and also her consistent postings.  Her students love being on her TikTok and they always join her in doing cute TikTok vidoes, or challenges. Are there any precautions that Cikgu Vanny should take in doing so?

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1) What should a teacher do when he/she knows a student is in need of protection from abuse etc.?
2) What are the procedures that a teacher should go through to help students in order to protect them?

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1. What is your key learning?

2. What is your role in protecting children within your sphere of influence?

3. What will you do during Practical Experience or Fellowship in terms of child protection?

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Teachers must remain vigilant and observant of any signs of abuse, neglect, or other safety concerns. Reporting any suspected cases of child abuse or neglect to the appropriate authorities promptly is crucial to ensure the safety and well-being of the students.

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1. Read the questions from A1 to B2.
2. Answer each question and remember to put your name in the "Subject"
3. Read through other people's answers and "like" those that you resonate with.
4. Complete this pre-work before 26th April

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In general, recording and posting images or information of minors on social media without their consent can be a violation of their privacy and safety. To ensure the safety and well-being of her students, Cikgu Vanny must follow proper protocols and guidelines when sharing any images/videos/information about them. This includes obtaining consent from their parents or guardians before posting anything and respecting their privacy by avoiding sharing any images/videos/information that could potentially put them at risk or compromise their safety.

It is also crucial for Cikgu Vanny to maintain appropriate boundaries in her interactions with her students and to respect their privacy and dignity. As an educator, she has a responsibility to avoid sharing or posting any information that could potentially embarrass her students. Cikgu Vanny must always consider the potential consequences of her actions so she can protect her students' well-being and mental health and ensure a safe and positive learning environment.

***Cikgu Vanny keep it up but be careful ya! :)

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Child protection is about keeping kids safe from harm and making sure they have the best possible start in life. This means being aware of the signs of abuse or neglect and taking action to prevent it from happening. It also means supporting children who have experienced harm, providing them with the care and services they need to heal and recover.

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Child protection is crucial for the safety and well-being of children. It ensures they have a nurturing environment to grow up in so they can reach their full potential. It is also important for our society as a whole, as it can reduce costs associated with child welfare, healthcare, and criminal justice, and help to build stronger families and communities.

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We need to prevent abuse and neglect and report suspected cases at the first sign of them.

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Child protection is about making sure and also keeping a child safe. The children should be protect, being cared of and needed support and assistance since birth. Child protection also means no discrimination towards them regardless of skin color, race, language, sex, religion, mental, social origin and physical.

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Child protection are meant to shield children (in our context; students) from any form of harm that may come their way. It can be physical, mental, in daily life and even online. Child protection entails the protection of the child not only from harm but against harm in the sense that if a child is in any sort of harmful situation, they should be protected againts it.

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Child protection is focusing on how to keep children safe from violence, abuse, harassment, and neglected. Children have their own rights in regulations to protect them without knowing their background.

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Child protection is important because a child's development is heavily influence by his/her life experience and environment. Looking back at Bronfenbrenner's theory of ecological system, a child's development is influenced by different layers of factors as far as the culture and beliefs the child grew up in. This shows how child protection is very important because anything that might happen to a child at any stage of their development will affect them in the long run. This can be seen in many literature pieces such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe where the protagonist unfortunate childhood affected him even when he's already an adult.

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It is important to ensure children's rights as they have the rights to be protected from harm, abuse and exploitation. It is important too in order to strengthen families by providing support and services to parents, guardians and nurturing environments for their children.

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Child Protection is important to protect them so that they can't be discriminated by the people who wanted to take advantages of them. Child Protection also important in taking care of their education, health, resources, and shelter. So they can live with the opportunities given same with others well being that have their own rights.

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We should learn to know signs of abuse and harm that may come come to a child's wat. We should know how to handle the situation once we know what we have in hands and also know the procedures to handle them.

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- Be mindful of your actions and words when you're around the students.
- Avoid taking pictures of the students and posting them online. They are not of the age where they can give consent.

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Enforce the law of Child Protection especially the child labour. Even though we understand that maybe they come from poor family but we have to admit that children should focus on Education. Some of them are working the dangerous place as they paid even more that casual. Making an awareness about the children protection to the company and university.

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Child protection can be described as a medium to protect the child in all aspects by following the guidelines and existing policies. The policies are designed for children's protection from abuse, exploitation, and violence.

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Child protection is about keeping the children, regardless their background, safe from any form of violence (Physical, verbal, mental, and sexual abuse) that could negatively effect their growth. Growth mentioned are in terms of physical, academically, and mentally.

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Teachers can provide education to their children. Mostly teacher have responsible on giving knowledge to them.

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Child protection is important to keep the children safe and their well-being is taken into account. It also serves as ensuring children have a protective environment for their positive development. In short, child protection is important to protect children from both intentional and unintentional harm.

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It is important so that they are prevented from any childhood trauma. The child protection also exist to help children to address or treat any traumatic event that happen to them. Childhood plays important roles in shaping the well-being of a person. Hence the child protection is important to enable children to have safer environment growing up.

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We should provide safe environment for children so that they can grow without harm, exploitation and abuse. Report any suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation. Build strong relationship with the child as they require more than just physical support but also mentally and emotionally. Be present for them when they need it. Plus, do educate the child about their body, boundaries, safe and unsafe behaviors. This is to help them recognize and bravely say no and report any inappropriate behaviors on them.

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-Do not simply take pictures of the children
-Be careful with actions and words when around with the students

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Be an observant and caring adult. If we see any changes of behaviour or abnormality shown by children, do something about it. start by asking them what happened, analyse the situation and take necessary actions. Report to the authorities if must.

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First and foremost, teach children about children's violence, abuse, and anything that harms them physically and emotionally. As an adult that is close to children needs to be very observant regarding children's changing behavior. Help children to identify which adults they can trust and if any signs that bring harm encourage children to speak about it.

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By teaching them
1. their rights
2. Who and how to seek helps
3. Things that are okay and not okay to be done.
Be a close and safe person, who they can reach out.

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To what extent a teacher are allowed to be involved in the childrens' life in the context of the children as a student.

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- Teach children to set body boundaries and ask permission before touching
- Be the person they could trust to protect them
- Advise them not ever go alone outside without their guardian, not to talk and follow strangers (demonstrating)
- Basic skills to reach out to for help if something bad happens

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Child protection means safeguarding children from harm. Harm includes violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect. This also means preserving the best interest of children

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The importance of child protection is to build a healthy society.
Children are the foundation of society, and they have to be protected properly because abuse and neglect of children can lead to negative consequences. These vulnerabilities often impede children from achieving their full potential.

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– Educating children about risks and how to protect themselves.
– Addressing practices that minimize any form of abuse.
– Setting up codes of conduct to prevent all kinds of abuse.
-Talking openly breaks down barriers and reduces stigma. By talking openly about our bodies, sex, & boundaries we can encourage children to share.

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-Educate them about their rights as human rights and create such awareness in the community as well.
-Listen to children's concerns and respond calmly and non-judgmentally.
-Follow the school's child protection policy and procedures when concerns about a child arise.

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To what extent can a teacher get involved in tackling the problem (when they know a child is not protected)

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Child is defined as someone under the age of 18 (Child Act 2001, Act 611). As someone who is not yet eligible for formal decision making, child protection is the action of the guardians safeguarding them from any potential physical and emotional harms that could affect their wellbeing.

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-To what extent the teacher can involved when the student show clear signs of being abused?
-There were quite a numbers of teachers (influencers) on tiktok/instagram that shared their interaction with their students in class. Some blurred their face, some did not. In this case, was it actually enough for students themselves to give verbal consent of them being photographed or video? and does the consent even valid, considering they are not at the legal age yet?

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At such young age, children may not be fully aware of how their actions or decision making would impact their life. By having their guardians (adults, parents, teachers) to guide and be a good example to them, the child will be able to live up to their dreams . They should also be protected from bad behaviours such as drugs or any forms of abuses, as a child would be easily influenced, even emotionally and physically drained.

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The public should be aware of the Child Act 2001 (Act 611) in Malaysia. Any forms of negligence, abuses and other crimes involving children should be reported to the local authorities for further investigation. It is important to be aware of the child's behaviour and emotional changes, as it may reflect their wellbeing at the moment.

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-Be observant to any physical, emotional changes, and even the way the students act in class
-Ensure mutual understandings on the boundary between students-students, teachers-students
-Never take any photos or videos of the students without their consents and without clear purpose. This action is an invasion of privacy and violate their right to publicity (can be charged under Penal code Sec 509 when presumption of innocence are met)

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Child protection aims to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children. Child protection is founded on the belief that every child has the right to grow and develop in a safe and nurturing environment, free from harm and violence. It is an essential component of promoting children's rights and ensuring their healthy development, both in the short and long term.

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Child protection is important because children are developmentally not able to make decisions or consent especially in matters that greatly affect them and their wellbeing. Hence, children are vulnerable to exploitation and harm.

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- Establish safe space for children.
- Report any development to the authority if there are suspicious signs of neglect, abuse, etc.
- Do not reveal children's personal information.

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Child protection is the protection of children from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect. It is the responsibility of individuals, organizations and governments to ensure that children are protected from harm and their rights are respected.

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It is important for children's wellbeings,  to prevent violence, abuse and exploitation, and to ensure displaced children access to protection services.

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Aside from keeping them safe from dangerous places, several safety measurements need to put in place too.

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Always have safety plan in place, Plan B if emergency happens

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The level of teacher's responsibility towards students. Couldnt be everything to be teachers teachers teachers

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My understanding of child protection is safeguarding minors from any form of violence, abuse, neglect, and harassment from any party that may harm them intentionally or unintentionally.

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Child protection is important because every child has the right to develop and grow holistically in a safe, conducive, and nurturing environment. Children who experience adversities or traumatic incidences during their childhood may keep it with them until adulthood which may affect their development in multiple ways (social, emotional, physical etc.).

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- Ensure that all personnel that interacts with children are well-informed about child rights and safeguarding policies
- Establish a safe and children-centric environment, especially in schools and learning centers.
- Ensure that children are aware of child-friendly hotlines or complaint mechanisms or personnel to seek for help when needed

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- Have clear boundaries when interacting with students.
- Do not take picture of children and expose personal information.
- Be sensitive towards sudden behavioural change in children that could be indicative of neglect, abuse, etc.
- Educate children to recognize signs of abuse / exploitations and how to seek help.

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- Educate them about their rights
- Always listen to them in a non-judgmental manner
- Provide or connect the child to the kind of support they need
- Do not post children's photos on social media without their parents or school's consent
- If you do post a photo of a child online, make sure that their identifiable features are blurred

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What can I, as a teacher do if the institution eg. the school is the one perpetuating harm to the child? For example, teachers using physical punishment on children and are only given a warning instead of punishment from the school.

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I believe child protection means ensuring children are safeguarded from any forms of abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect, as well as ensuring their rights are protected.

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It is important to have child protection in place to ensure that children are able to grow up and develop in a safe and healthy environment. The abuse, exploitation and neglect of children could lead to severe consequences such as depression, lifelong trauma, developmental delays, as well as poor performance in school or relationships with these outcomes being carried into society and the future job market, hence it also affects the community.

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We can ensure that a child is protected by having the necessary child protection systems in place that prevents and responds to the abuse, exploitation and neglect of children. These systems can consists of laws, policies, guidelines, processes and institutional structures that serve this purpose. It is also important to educate both children and adults about the importance of child protection.

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We can protect our students by:
- ensuring they are educated and understand their rights, what abuse might look like and what they can do if they are facing any form of abuse
- voicing out when we notice a child might be facing abuse, exploitation or neglect
- raising awareness about child protection within the school and community of our students

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Child Protection is ensuring children's safety and wellbeing are protected and safeguarding them from any type of harm that includes violence, abuse and neglection

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Child protection ensures children are safe from different forms of threats such as violence, neglect and exploitation. It ensures they have the right to grow and develop in a safe environment.

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It allows them to grow and develop in a healthy and safe environment. And reduces negative consequences such as mental disorders, developmental delay, health issues and more.

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Child Protection is important to ensure children feel safe and protected. The policy helps to deliver guidelines and help to create the environment that is the most suitable for children's wellbeing and safety. Children would be protected from any type of harm, abuse, discrimination if policy is being followed

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Many parties are involved in ensuring a child is protected. Parents, educators, governments and communities play a role. Child protection laws, education of public, Support towards child welfare organisations, recognising and reporting abuse, monitoring online activities and providing a safe nurturing environment are a few ways to ensure a child is protected.

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Teachers can educate students about their rights and what they should do if they feel that they are exposed to danger. Teachers should also build trust with their students so that students feel safe to share what they are going through with teachers. Teachers should also alert the authorities if there are any suspected abuse.

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- What is within my responsibility and what is not when it comes to child protection?
- What are some of the guidelines that we should be aware of e.g. not taking photos with students etc.

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Everyone should play their role in ensuring a child should feel safe and protected in any settings. Everyone should create a safe environment for children, including physical safety and emotional well-being. This can include measures such as secure facilities, child-friendly spaces, and positive interactions with adults.

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Teacher should acknowledge, aware and understand their responsibilities in enforcing Child Protection to implement it successfully inside or beyond classroom. Teachers should also go through a background screening to filter out those with a history of child abuse or neglect in order to ensure students will be in a safe environment when they are with the teachers. A teacher's primary responsibility is to create a safe and nurturing learning environment for their students, and taking proactive steps to prevent and address potential risks to their well-being.

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1. What are the best ways to create a safe and healthy communication with parents, students beyond classroom?

2. How do you apply strategies in a classroom settings to ensure students feel safe among their peers from discrimination, abuse or any type of harm?

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Ensuring children are protected from all possible harm, abuse and violence. Children are considered vulnerable groups of society, so their safety and welfare need to be safeguarded and taken into primary consideration.

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Child protection is important as they are the future generations of leaders and changemakers, so taking care and protecting their well being in terms of physical and emotional is unnegotiable. This includes providing safe space for them to turn into, and to express themselves without fear.

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Stricter regulations, according to what children need to be protected from and validated with. On a school level, perhaps create a safe to express themselves without being harmed, or neglected from both physical and emotional aspects (society, support groups)

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Connect with students and aware with the external and internal factors that shaped the students. Be mindful and proactive in observing the precautions on what to do/say and what not to do/say to the students. Create a safe environment so that they know who to turn to for help.

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1) How do we realize/know if our students need help?
2) To what extent we are able to protect them as a teacher ?
3) Can teacher interfere with the student's domestic violence that happened in the family? To what extent can we help?
4) How to know whether students really feel safe with their teachers?

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1. Prevent, Protect, and Restore. In any way it is possible to reduce the probability of breaking child protection code of conduct, prevention is the first action that should be taken by teachers to protect students.

2. Be observant towards the child changes of behaviors and direct them to consult school counselors or school authorities when in need. Create a safe boundaries between teacher-students.

3. Do not capture any pictures that contains the students faces. If captured, do not post to social medias.

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-Ensure that students' faces are not publicly posted on the Tiktok videos.
-Make sure that the videos fit the purpose and back to your own pure intention, not only for entertainment purposes.
-Even if students give verbal consent to post on social media, they are not legally eligible to give permission. Thus, Cikgu Vanny MUST seek permission and advice from the school authorities and ensure their parents are aware before publicly post her contents.
-Use the Tiktok to show more educational activities with students (ie: students activities, camps, kokurikulum), rather than cute challenges Tiktok videos.