Focus Groups and Peer Observation with Teachers

The following report presents a detailed analysis of the results obtained through the realization
of Focus Group with teachers, whose main objective was to collect the teachers´
perspective on the concept of Safe Teaching, inquiring how it translates in its
classroom practice and detecting those barriers and facilitators for its development.
Secure Attachment, a topic of increasing interest in the psychological and educational field, is
increasingly being considered as a determining factor in the socio-emotional development of
students and their academic performance. The emotional security established between
teachers and students can significantly influence the motivation, commitment and emotional
well-being of the student, resulting in a lower risk of dropout. Safe Teaching is the relationship
that offers students a refuge to turn to when they become emotionally dysregulated and a safe
base from which to explore the world.

Through this collection of information, we hope to contribute to the enrichment of knowledge
about the importance of Secure Attachment in the educational context and its bond with the
problem of school drop-out through the collection of qualitative and collaborative information
with teachers.

Finally, it should be added that the analysis is organized into four broad categories:
Implications of attachment and bonding dimension at school; Definition of Safe Teaching; Safe
Teaching enablers and Safe Teaching barriers. In the last three categories, the facilitators
identified the keywords of the analysis developed by teachers in the Focus Group. To highlight
these words in the development of the report are those that are most repeated and as an
annex you can find the collection of all the keywords that have been provided in all the Focus
Groups carried out.