Trauma-Informed Teaching in Your Elementary Classroom

Simple Strategies to Create Inclusive, Safe Spaces as the First Step to Learning
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-70793-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 364 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.

Brown, Lori

Bartlett, Alison

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 &nb

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.