Teaching Hope and Resilience for Students Experiencing Trauma - Creating Safe and Nurturing Classrooms for Learning

About the author

Douglas Fisher is a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Nancy Frey is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Rachelle S. Savitz is assistant professor of adolescent literacy at Clemson University; she received the 2020 Association of Literacy Educators & Researchers (ALER) Jerry Johns Promising Researcher Award.

Summary

Focuses on actions that teachers can take to facilitate learning for students facing trauma. Identifying positive, connected teacher-student relationships as foundational, the authors offer direction for creating an emotionally safe classroom environment in which students find a refuge and a space in which to process events.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Rachelle S Savitz, Rachelle S. Savitz
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780807761472
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6147-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system