Christina Reese – Trauma-Be informed Compassionate Classrooms

Education is a challenging job. You must meet the emotional and social needs of your students. This is not only difficult for the average learner, but even more so for those with mental health problems or who have been through trauma.

 Christina Reese – Trauma-Be informed Compassionate Classrooms

• How to find Trauma in Students
  • Fight, flight and freeze responses: What it looks like in school
  • Wired for Fear: The Impact on the Whole Child
  • Survey and study on ACEs – Adverse Childhood Events
  • Poverty and mental health problems:
• Discipline in a Trauma-Informed Classroom
  • Changing your mindset: Punitive vs. collaborative
  • Strategies to promote intrinsic motivation
  • Three steps to create a collaborative approach
  • Case Study: How do you respond?
• Neuroplasticity: Activities to Establish & Strengthen Neural Pathways
  • New ways to respond
    • Slow down and stop to think
    • React instead of reacting
    • Social stories
  • Techniques to incorporate the 4 R’s:
    • Rhythmic
    • Repetitive
    • Relational
    • Rewarding
• Relationships as a Protective Factor
  • Techniques to form positive relationships and increase students’ likeliness to:
    • Stay longer at school
    • Work harder
    • Increase test scores & grades
    • Take care of yourself-Confidence
  • Students feel more connected to school by using these techniques
    • Smoke or Drink
    • Sexual intercourse
    • Develop emotional problems
    • Suicidal thoughts, or attempts to commit suicide
    • Be prepared to carry weapons
    • Participate in violent or other dangerous activities
  • Case study: Strengths-Based solution-Focused approach
• Mindfulness and the Self-Awareness Activities For:
  • Assistance with transitions
  • Reduce impulse-driven behaviors
  • Increase empathy, kindness, and compassion
  • Focus on your focus and calm
• Social and emotional learning techniques to increase:
  • Concentration and focus
  • Impulse control
  • Conflict resolution skills
• Mindful Communication Tools for Student Engagement
  • Lead with presence
  • Attention
  • Intention
• Mindful Strategies to Increase Connection, Empathy & Community
  • Gratitude
  • Heartfulness
• Zones of regulation to teach self-Awareness & Emotional Control
  • Red zone
  • Yellow zone
  • Green zone
  • Blue zone

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Description:

• Create a trauma-informed classroom
• Trust your hard work and build it-To-reach students
• Respect the emotional and social needs of diverse learners
• Communicate with difficult students more effectively
• Neuroplasticity can be incorporated with strengths-Based perspective

Education is a challenging job. You must meet the emotional and social needs of your students. While this can be difficult for most learners, it is more difficult for those who have been through trauma or who are dealing with mental health problems. Many students who have suffered trauma are difficult to engage with and exhibit problematic behavior, such as low frustration tolerance, anger outbursts, or difficult social relationships. These behaviors are all detrimental to learning and teaching. Students who have experienced trauma will often be infight/flight/freeze mode, which hinders their ability to learn. You will need to pay attention to their disruptive and outwardly aggressive behavior. You can spend lots of time on behavior charts or incentivize good behavior but traditional classroom management methods and a punitive approach for discipline are simply not effective.

Dr. Reese Find out how trauma is treated-A well-rounded approach to learning will reduce the likelihood of students engaging in challenging behaviours, increase student engagement, as well as improve learning outcomes. Discover new strategies, tools and resources to reduce students’ impulsiveness, aggressive behaviors and inattention and increase their focus, attention and compassion. This positive approach will not only benefit students suffering from trauma, but all students in your class will benefit. With:

• Research-Trauma-based practices-informed classroom
• This plan will help you build trust and positive relationships with your family.-To-reach students
• These proven techniques can help you communicate more effectively with difficult students and work collaboratively.
• Cognitive skill-Strategies that combine the science of neuroscience and the strengths-Based on neurodiversity

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