Trauma-Informed Teaching in Your Elementary Classroom

Simple Strategies to Create Inclusive, Safe Spaces as the First Step to Learning
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-68676-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 220 g

Research has proven that childhood trauma affects school engagement and success while at the same time recognizing that the majority of students have experienced it. This book offers simple strategies, based on evidence-based studies, that elementary educators can use to effectively recognize trauma, teach resilience, and support their students in being ready to learn. The book covers all the tenets of trauma-informed teaching, including understanding the effects of trauma, creating safety and predictability, fostering healthy attachments, and modeling resilience as part of social emotional learning, all of which are framed within cultural humility and competence. Designed for all teachers, professionals, and school administrators working with elementary students, this practical guide is key reading for creating a safe classroom and school environment that is inclusive of all learners and conducive for learning.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartlett, Alison

Brown, Lori

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Meet the Authors



Introduction



Part 1- The Why

Chapter 1 – Understanding Trauma

The Human Nervous System

Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Systems

Memories: Regular and Traumatic

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn (FFFFs)

Fight/Flight

Freeze

Fawn

Chronic Stress and Changes to the Brain

Epigenetics

Brain Connections

Exposure to Stress Hormones

War

Answers to Brain Breaks

References

Chapter 2 – Intergenerational Trauma

Back to ACEs

Prenatal

Epigenetics

FASD

Cigarettes

Maternal Nutrition

Postnatal

Attachment Theory

Historic Trauma

Reserves

Residential Schools

First Nations and the Courts

Sixties Scoop

Inuit Housing Today

Slavery and Its Legacy in the USA

Answers to Brain Breaks

References



Part 2 – The How

Chapter 3 – Culture

Biases

Unconscious Bias

Resource Bias

Deficit Thinking

Ethnocentricism

Trust

Cultural Humility and Cultural Competence

Case Study: Forest Glen School (K-4) Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Resources

Answers to Brain Breaks

References

Chapter 4 – Safety and Predictability

Attachment

Mirror Neurons

Identifying and Removing Triggers

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Über Autor(innen)

Lori Brown, Psy.D. has 28 years of experience working as a teacher, registrar, counselor, administrator, and consultant in the public school system.

Alison Bartlett, B.Ed. has worked in the Anglophone East School District since 1989 as a classroom teacher and had a Special Position of Responsibility (SPR) for her school’s Positive Learning Environment.