Trauma-Informed Teaching in Your Elementary Classroom - Simple Strategies to Create Inclusive, Safe Spaces As First Step to

This book offers simple strategies, based on evidence-based studies, that elementary educators can use to effectively recognize trauma, teach resilience, and support their students in being ready to learn.

List of contents

Meet the Authors
Introduction
Part 1- The Why
Chapter 1 - Understanding Trauma
The Human Nervous System
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Systems
Memories: Regular and Traumatic
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn (FFFFs)
Fight/Flight
Freeze
Fawn
Chronic Stress and Changes to the Brain
Epigenetics
Brain Connections
Exposure to Stress Hormones
War
Answers to Brain Breaks
References
Chapter 2 - Intergenerational Trauma
Back to ACEs
Prenatal
Epigenetics
FASD
Cigarettes
Maternal Nutrition
Postnatal
Attachment Theory
Historic Trauma
Reserves
Residential Schools
First Nations and the Courts
Sixties Scoop
Inuit Housing Today
Slavery and Its Legacy in the USA
Answers to Brain Breaks
References
Part 2 - The How
Chapter 3 - Culture
Biases
Unconscious Bias
Resource Bias
Deficit Thinking
Ethnocentricism
Trust
Cultural Humility and Cultural Competence
Case Study: Forest Glen School (K-4) Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Resources
Answers to Brain Breaks
References
Chapter 4 - Safety and Predictability
Attachment
Mirror Neurons
Identifying and Removing Triggers
Answers to Brain Breaks
References
Chapter 5 - Cognitive-Behavioral Theory
What is Cognitive Behavior Theory?
How Does CBT Work?
CBT: Body¿Brain
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources for You and Your Students
Flow
Reflective Listening
Reflective Feeling
CBT: Brain¿Body
Recognizing and Challenging Thoughts
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) For Your K-3 Students
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) For Your Grade 4-6 Students
CBT for Teachers
Brain Break Answers
Resources
References
Conclusion

About the author

Lori Brown, Psy.D. has 28 years of experience working as a teacher, registrar, counselor, administrator, and consultant in the public school system.
Alison Bartlett, B.Ed. has worked in the Anglophone East School District since 1989 as a classroom teacher and had a Special Position of Responsibility (SPR) for her school's Positive Learning Environment.

Summary

This book offers simple strategies, based on evidence-based studies, that elementary educators can use to effectively recognize trauma, teach resilience, and support their students in being ready to learn.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Bartlett, Bartlett Alison, Lori Brown, Lori Bartlett Brown, Brown Lori
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032707938
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270793-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Educational psychology, teacher training, Teaching skills and techniques, Philosophy & theory of education, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Teaching skills & techniques, Philosophy and theory of education, Primary & middle schools, Education: care & counselling of students, Primary and middle schools, Counselling and care of students, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary