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Introduction:

A school is not just about teaching and learning, though it&rsquo;s a core of its existence. The 
school is also a building that needs to be taken care of. It&rsquo;s a kitchen where cooking and 
dishwashing have to be organised and alimentation bought. The school needs to be 
cleaned, the cars maintained, and sometimes repaired. What about the garden? Sport 
facilities? And bicycles? For the school to function the holistic system is required, where 
all the practical and theoretical tasks have their places, and none is neglected as less 
significant. 
 
It&rsquo;s important for a teacher to know how to manage and maintain the school because 
it&rsquo;s what teachers usually do. Even if professional stuff is employed, teachers still stick 
together with other personnel to ensure the good material standard of the school as a 
part of creating a learning environment profitable for the students. 
 
Taking care of the school itself can be also a very good part of the programme. Your 
students are going to take care of their houses, their food, their transport and their 
environment as any other adult. It&rsquo;s then beneficial for them to acquire the necessary 
skills and attitudes using the school as a learning playground. The students being 
responsible for real tasks in a real school learn from it in a dialectical way. It allows 
them to take their lives in their own hands and therefore it gives them independence. 
 
The same applies for the teachers, whose role is important in the process. They are the 
one making sure that the tasks are done in a good standard and that any critical failure 
is avoided. They need to hold balance between letting the students make mistakes and 
keeping everybody safe and healthy. It&rsquo;s not a good lesson to get food poisoning or 
have a car crash! 
 
The teacher can achieve it by promoting a certain healthy lifestyle. Healthy with a lot of 
physical activities, nutritious food and care for the environment. To make a campaign 
successful, he or she needs to connect the duties with the needs. Working in the garden 
is not for sake of making hands dirty but to obtain valuable and healthy food. Daily 
checking of the car is to avoid the accidents, make transport accessible, and reduce 
expenses. 
 
The campaign runs with certain amounts of theoretical knowledge, sensibilisation, 
information, a little bit of persistence, some bureaucracy, system, and organisation. It 
changes everyday duties into a lifestyle providing with a good standard of living.

Directive:

1. Read from the 3-Year OWU Licentiate of Pedagogy Program (F1). You can also use a 
description of the areas of responsibility for an inspiration (F2). 
 
2. Make a common meeting where you define different practical responsibilities 
necessary to run DNS. Decide how you will share those responsibilities. 
 
3. Make a plan of how you will take care of your responsibilities. Set some goals you 
want to achieve with them. Consider that your task will the most probably include 
mobilising and teaching others at the school. Some habits are very difficult to change! 
Make a strategy for that. You might find it useful to write all that down. 
 
You can also use the points below for an inspiration (examples connected to the 
recycling system): 
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">-How are you going to sensibilise about the needs or issues underlining your 
responsibilities? (i.e. recycling is important for the environment) 
 
-What systems, schedules, and rules will you implement? (i.e. boxes will be driven once 
a week to the recycling centre while shopping food) 
 
-What will you need to agree about in common meetings? (i.e. decide where the 
rubbish bins could be stored) 
 
-What materials, tools, money, and keys do you need? (i.e. rubbish bins, transparent 
bags, storage for the bags that are already full) 
 
-How are you going to make accessible necessary information to the others at the 
school? (i.e. signs on the rubbish bins explaining what waste should be disposed to 
which container) 
 
-Would it be a good idea to introduce the needs or issues underlining your 
responsibilities during a short course or workshop? (i.e. watching a film &ldquo;A Story of 
Stuff&rdquo; followed by a discussion and a short rubbish sorting exercise)</div>
 
4. Take care of your responsibility areas according to your plan. Adjust it accordingly. 
Seek critical feedback from your comrades about your campaign. 
 
5. Meet in your Core Group to conclude on your responsibilities. 
 
6. Write a summary of your responsibility areas. You can decide in your Core Group to 
make specific questions to be answered. As examples, you can use the following ones: 
&nbsp;
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">-What were the reasons behind the creation of your responsibility areas? 
 
-What were your responsibilities and how have you managed to carry them? 
 
-What goals have you set for yourself? Have you reached them? 
 
-What were the biggest challenges for you and how have you overcome them? 
&nbsp;</div>

<div style="margin-left: 40px;">-If you had carried your responsibility in a group, how were you organised? 
 
-What feedback regarding your responsibility have you received? How have you used 
it? 
 
-What do you think how your actions helped your schoolmates to have a healthy and 
sustainable lifestyle? Has it actually changed anything? 
 
-How would you improve your performance in the organisation of your responsibility 
areas, if you were to do it again? 
 
-How were these responsibilities important for you as a teacher? 
 
-How will you finally conclude upon your responsibilities?</div>
 
7. Send your summary to your teacher. You can the products of your campaign: plans, 
presentations, posters, spreadsheets, apps, graphs, pictures, questionnaires with 
feedback etc.

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