Trauma can significantly affect the academic performance of children and adolescents. It may impair concentration, memory, and the ability to process information, making learning more challenging. Students dealing with trauma often struggle with attendance, behavior, and engagement in school. By recognizing these impacts, educators can better support students through consistent routines, emotional support, and trauma-sensitive teaching practices that help create a stable environment where learning can thrive.
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, privates, and independent sectors. Relevant professionals include teachers, school counselors, adjustment counselors, child-care staff, college counselors, education-related health professionals, educational psychologists, juvenile-detention and youth prison educators, and social workers.
Organizations include independent/private, public and international preschools, middle schools, elementary schools, high-schools, colleges, residential settings, juvenile detention centers, and children’s homes.
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/
Course duration & pacing
✓ 30 minutes to 1 hour
✓ Self-paced learning
✓ Recommended over 1 to 2 weeks
Course availability
✓ Available online for 12 months
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 understand the diversity of challenges traumatized students experience within educational settings such as emotional regulation, behavior, relationships, learning, and physical health etc.
- To explore different approaches to assessing the nature of these difficulties in learning contexts.
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.
Photos by Freepik
