Classroom Strategies for Traumatized Students Across the Age Range is a short-course designed to help educators respond to the impacts of trauma on learning and behavior from early childhood through adolescence.
Participants will learn teaching strategies across the school age-range and ways to create emotionally safe, supportive, and learning classrooms. Participants will gain practical tools to foster resilience and engagement in students of all ages, while promoting a trauma-sensitive and inclusive learning environment.
This independent short-course is also available as part of the deep dive trauma-Sensitive Schools course. Click on link
https://istep-global.com/our-courses/
Who is the course designed for
The course has been designed for educators, support staff, and paraprofessionals who deliver services directly or indirectly to children, adolescents, and teachers in the public, independent/private, and international sectors. Relevant professionals include teachers, school counselors, adjustment counselors, child-care staff, college counselors, education-related health professionals, educational psychologists, juvenile-detention and prison youth educators, and social workers.
Organizations include independent/private, public, and international preschool, middle schools, elementary schools, high-schools, colleges, residential settings, juvenile detention centers, youth prisons, and children’s homes.
Course duration & pacing
✓ 30 minutes to 1 hour
✓ Self-paced learning
✓ Recommended over 1 to 2 weeks
Course availability
✓ Available for 12 months online
Course certificate
✓ Following course completion, click on the link to download your Certificate of Course Completion with the stated number of continuing professional development (CPD) hours.
Course credits
✓ 1 point toward future courses
Course objectives
- To enable educators & support staff to implement trauma-sensitive classroom practices tailored to the cognitive, emotional, and social needs of each age group.
- To create age-appropriate routines and environments that promote psychological safety, predictability, and trust for all students.
- To equip students across age ranges with tools to manage stress and stay engaged in learning, while being sensitive to individual and cultural differences.
Books, video, websites & academic references
Books, video, websites and academic references are provided to help educators access and explore rigorous practice and research findings.
Open AI
You are advised to utilize ChatGPT to ask questions throughout lessons. To ask your questions, open the ChatGPT search page (click on the link below or copy the link into your browser).
NB: There is no research evidence to support ChatGPT strategies for individual client’s mental health.
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