In this episode, we are chatting all about trauma-informed pedagogy. While we are not trauma certified ourselves, we have picked up several strategies and tips along the way to help support students who have experienced trauma.
 
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Trauma is not an event itself, but the body's protective response to an event or series of events that is experienced as harmful or life-threatening.

Resources Mentioned:

• Definition of Trauma
• Trauma-informed Pedagogy: What It Is and How It Can Help Now
• Understanding Trauma: Learning Brain vs. Survival Brain (YouTube)
• Simon Sinek's Why Video - Long version and Short version
• Asset vs Deficit mindset - E080
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott

Advice/Tips/Strategies:

• Getting to know ALL of your students
• Daily journals (ongoing dialogue between student and teacher)
• Google Chat thread with each of your students
• Exit or Entrance tickets - What's on your mind? Anything bothering you? How can I support?
• Mastery-based teaching and learning approaches free up your time to connect with students
• Behaviour usually has a reason behind it (it's not about defiance)
• Provide materials for class ahead of time (allows students to process on their own time)
• Current events can be triggering for students
• Lots of parallels with UDL (Universal Design for Learning)
• Don't have pity on your students - slippery slope away from high expectations, not culturally responsive
• Make sure pity is not affecting your grading
• Explain your why of your lesson (why to how to what instead of what to how to why)
• There are lots of great lessons from the business world
• Involve parents in your school community
• Connecting face-t

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