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Trauma-informed Educators

90 minutes

FREE

This course is for teachers, school administrators, and paraprofessionals at any level from pre-school to university. Learning more about trauma can help teachers in the classroom and help all school professionals connect better with students.
Trauma-informed Educators

Course Details

Language

English

Format

On-demand

Duration

90 minutes

Rating

★★★★☆

Course Description

Trauma impacts a person’s ability to learn. It changes brain development and often results in students living in their fear brain, which turns off their thinking brain and impairs the ability to hear, learn and understand. And if that wasn’t hard enough, trauma can also make it more difficult for students to trust authority or build healthy relationships in or out of the classroom.  This course helps you more thoroughly understand how overwhelming behaviors and emotions may be tied to past traumas and gives you classroom strategies to better connect with and care for students who come from a history of trauma or chronic stress so that they have the greatest chance at succeeding in the school environment.

Course Highlights:

Video Training: 10 easy-to-navigate video-based sessions that share the essential skills of trauma-informed care.


Self-Reflection Questions: The Companion Guide has self-reflection questions to dig deeper into developing personalized strategies you can use in your class or school.


Group Discussion Questions: The Companion Guide is built to help small groups work through the materials together without needing a trauma pro or group leader.

“I especially appreciated the scientific data on how trauma changes children’s brains physically. They are not choosing to be difficult, they are doing their best. It is our job to do our best for them. This course gives insight into how to do that!”

Ann Frank, Teacher
Lebanon City Schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Related Content

Resources to help build trauma-informed classrooms.

Practical Skills

Self Regulation Techniques

This handout teaches practical self-regulation techniques, designed to help individuals manage emotions, reduce stress, and build resilience through trauma-informed strategies.

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Practical Skills

Using the Power of Yes

Using the power of yes can build significant trust with children from hard places. When we build up this trust with “yes” we help them be better able to handle the “nos” that come.

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