Download or read book Teacher Perceptions of Trauma Responsive Interventions Designed to Improve Student Behavior written by Pamela Davenport and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of childhood trauma are evident in urban classrooms today and adversely affect student achievement. The evidence of exposure to trauma is disruptive behavior, often resulting in a suspension from school. The school social worker or counselor is often viewed as the person responsible for implementing strategies that change student behavior, but the importance of educating classroom teachers on how to deal with the impact of trauma has become apparent. This qualitative case study investigated teacher perceptions of trauma-informed practices used to reduce disruptive behavior at one Midwest urban K-8 school, Teacher perceptions of trauma-informed practices that worked to reduce disruptive behavior, the teacher's role in supporting students impacted by trauma, and teacher training needed to support students impacted by trauma were investigated. Perceptions were gathered from classroom teachers (n=17) via an online survey and a focus group. Results illustrated the importance of the teacher-student relationship, flexibility with classroom rules, and the use of sensory items or alternate seating, with 100% of participants strongly agreeing or agreeing and 94.12% identifying the use of a mentor to check in and out with students and providing a safe space to cool down as beneficial to reducing disruptive behaviors. Five of the six focus group participants stated that it takes the support of everyone to meet the needs of students impacted by trauma. The final question investigated teacher perceptions of training. Even though 58.82% of teachers agreed that they were given adequate training, this question had 41.18% of teachers who disagreed that they were provided enough training to support students impacted by trauma. Results from this study identify the importance of well-trained teachers who consistently use trauma-informed practices to reduce disruptive behaviors in the classroom. This study indicates the benefit for school-wide systems of support that include on-going training to reduce disruptive behaviors of students impacted by trauma. Future quantitative research that analyzes student discipline data would be beneficial to validate teacher perception that trauma-informed practices reduce disruptive behavior.

Download or read book Teacher Perceptions of Internal and External Student Behaviors and the Impact of Trauma informed Practices written by Rachel E. Metzinger and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma and the exposure of trauma among adolescents can significantly impact a child’s ability to find success in the school setting. Trauma-affected students can experience difficulties physically, mentally, emotionally, and developmentally, affecting their academics and behavior. This study explored the perceptions of teachers and the causes and symptoms of internal and external student behaviors. Additionally, this study examined if differences existed between elementary and secondary teachers' use of trauma-informed practices, student behaviors, and levels of awareness of trauma-informed interventions for trauma-affected students. To address the needs of students impacted by trauma and implement trauma-informed practices, teachers must have a firm understanding of the needs and root causes of behavior and the procedures and identify measures needed to support all students.

Download or read book Teachers Perceptions Awareness and Responses to Students with Childhood Trauma written by Jonathan James Tomlin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of trauma-informed education is becoming a topic of discussion for many school leaders and administrators during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between trauma training, education, experience, and teacher self-efficacy, and teachers’ self-reported perceptions of student behavior, teaching, and managing behaviors of students with trauma history. Previous research highlighted a lack of teacher input when developing trauma-informed education within school settings. This correlational study investigated factors associated with educator trauma training, education, experience, and self-efficacy. Data were collected from a city school system in a large, urban district in the northeast United States. Three multiple regression analyses were conducted; each analysis used the predictor variables educator trauma training, education, experience, and self-efficacy scores. This research study found a significant positive correlation between educator trauma training, education, experience, self-efficacy, and teaching traumatized children. It also found a significant positive correlation between trauma training, education, experience, self-efficacy, and teacher responses to student behavior. There was no correlation between trauma training, education, experience, self-efficacy, and perceptions of student behavior. The implications of this research are to find potential professional development gaps for administrators, school leaders, and researchers in developing trauma-informed care programs.

Download or read book Strategies and Methods for Implementing Trauma Informed Pedagogy written by Bernadowski, Carianne and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first century classrooms are diverse in nature and everchanging. Students enter classrooms with many experiences, both positive and negative, that influence and affect their ability to learn. More specifically, children who have experienced trauma often struggle socially, emotionally, and academically. Unfortunately, many educators are not adequately trained to identify the signs of trauma in children. In fact, they may misinterpret the outward behavioral manifestations of trauma as other conduct disorders. Strategies and Methods for Implementing Trauma-Informed Pedagogy is a critical reference book that helps teachers and administrators identify manifestations of trauma in children and explain the characteristics and classroom interventions and resources that can aid educators in supporting students who have experienced trauma. This text explains the effects of trauma and the ways in which it manifests in children, explores resources and community options to support children who have experienced trauma, presents strategies to help students who have experienced trauma to learn in the classroom, and teaches the management of behaviors in positive ways to cultivate a community of learners. Covering topics such as positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), racial trauma, and student classroom behavior, this text is essential for classroom teachers, teachers in training, school counselors, school psychologists, preservice teachers, administrators, researchers, and academicians.

Download or read book Teaching to Strengths written by Debbie Zacarian and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2017 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines a comprehensive, collaborative approach to teaching students living with trauma, violence, and chronic stress that focuses on students' strengths and resiliency.

Download or read book Trauma Informed Teaching and IEPS written by Melissa Sadin and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the intersection of trauma and special needs, featuring strategies teachers can use to build resilience and counter the effects of trauma on learning and behavior. Childhood trauma is a national health crisis. As many as two out of every three children in any classroom across the country have experienced some form of trauma. Meanwhile, a recent study in Washington State showed that 80 percent of the children eligible for special education services were exposed to early childhood trauma, which has been linked to developmental disabilities. Add in the fact that Black children are four times more likely to be classified with intellectual disabilities and five times more likely than white students to be classified with an emotional or behavioral disorder, and the already daunting complexity of effectively serving kids with an individualized education program (IEP) becomes overwhelming. This is a whole school problem that requires a whole school solution. All educators in both general and special education should learn how trauma affects the brain and how any resulting atypical neurological and psychological development affects learning and behavior. In Trauma-Informed Teaching and IEPs, trauma expert Melissa Sadin presents strategies for supporting the most vulnerable students in general or special education settings, across grade levels, and across the curriculum. You'll learn to * Understand the effects of childhood trauma on the brain, learning, and behavior. * Weave caring into trauma-informed instruction. * Apply a trauma-informed lens to crafting IEPs. * Conduct trauma-informed functional behavior assessments. Once you understand the effects of trauma on learning and development, you will explore classroom strategies and IEP goals and modifications that can actually help to heal your students.With rich examples and helpful strategies, Trauma-Informed Teaching and IEPs gives teachers the most effective tools to help build resilience for every student, no matter their needs.

Download or read book A Trauma Informed and Culturally Responsive TICR Approach in Classrooms written by Dr. Isaiah Pickens and published by National Professional Resources, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you had the superpower to understand the most hidden barrier to your students’ achievement or the ability to see exactly what motivates them and bring that motivation to life? That is the power of a trauma-informed and culturally responsive (TICR) approach. A TICR approach helps you understand the underlying causes of challenging behaviors as well as personal motivators for academic achievement, and enables you to respond to students in a way that meets their underlying needs, honors their life stories, and empowers them while setting appropriate limits. When effectively applied, it unleashes a new method of tapping into student potential by giving you insight into students’ life stories and fostering relationships that help maximize their academic experience. This guide provides an overview of the three tenets of a TICR approach for maximizing students’ social-emotional and academic well-being; gives you the tools to understand the underlying reason for behavior issues; identifies common trauma triggers; outlines how to adjust the classroom to become more responsive to the needs of students with trauma; offers tips for acknowledging the cultural experience of students and making classroom adjustments that promote inclusivity; discusses secondary traumatic stress (STS) that may affect educators, and how to address it.

Download or read book Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies written by Django Paris and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)—teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation. The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world. Book Features: A definitive resource on culturally sustaining pedagogies, including what they look like in the classroom and how they differ from deficit-model approaches.Examples of teaching that sustain the languages, literacies, and cultural practices of students and communities of color.Contributions from the founders of such lasting educational frameworks as culturally relevant pedagogy, funds of knowledge, cultural modeling, and third space. Contributors: H. Samy Alim, Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas, Michael Domínguez, Nelson Flores, Norma Gonzalez, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Adam Haupt, Amanda Holmes, Jason G. Irizarry, Patrick Johnson, Valerie Kinloch, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Carol D. Lee, Stacey J. Lee, Tiffany S. Lee, Jin Sook Lee, Teresa L. McCarty, Django Paris, Courtney Peña, Jonathan Rosa, Timothy J. San Pedro, Daniel Walsh, Casey Wong “All teachers committed to justice and equity in our schools and society will cherish this book.” —Sonia Nieto, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “This book is for educators who are unafraid of using education to make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable.” —Pedro Noguera, University of California, Los Angeles “This book calls for deep, effective practices and understanding that centers on our youths’ assets.” —Prudence L. Carter, dean, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley

Download or read book Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students written by Eric Rossen Ph.D. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumatic or adverse experiences are pervasive among school-aged children and youth. Trauma undermines students' ability to learn, form relationships, and manage their feelings and behavior. School-based professionals working with traumatized students are often unaware of their complex needs or how to meet them within the hours of the typical school day. Combining knowledge of the cognitive and behavioral effects of trauma, evidence-based interventions, educational best practices, and the experiences of veteran educators, Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students: A Guide for School-Based Professionals presents a new framework for assisting students with a history of trauma. Designed specifically for busy educators who work with traumatized students daily, this volume brings together practitioners, researchers, and other experts with backgrounds in education, school psychology, school nursing, school social work, school counseling, school administration, clinical psychology, resilience, and trauma studies to examine the impacts of numerous traumatic experiences on school-aged children and youth. The book provides practical, effective, and implementable strategies and resources for adapting and differentiating instruction, modifying the classroom and school environments, and building competency for students affected by trauma. Chapters offer techniques and strategies designed for all types of educational environments and in the context of multiple potential sources of trauma. Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students is an essential resource for classroom teachers and for practicing school-based professionals. It is also useful for courses that address crisis, trauma, and education across a broad spectrum of specializations, including school social work, education, psychology, counseling, and school administration.

Download or read book Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students written by Eric Rossen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumatic or adverse experiences are pervasive among school-aged children and youth. Trauma undermines students' ability to learn and manage their feelings, behavior, and relationships. Meanwhile, school-based professionals often struggle with responding to the complex needs of traumatized students within the typical school day. The second edition of Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students is designed for professionals in mental health and education settings, and combines content and expertise from experts in the fields of education, school psychology, school administration, resilience, and trauma into one comprehensive guide. The book provides a thorough background on current research in trauma and its impact on school functioning; administrative and policy considerations; and a broad set of practical and implementable strategies for adapting instruction, modifying the classroom environments, and building competency for students and staff. New chapters address topics such as post-traumatic growth, interpersonal violence, and trauma screening and assessment among others. Educators can continue to use this updated edition as an ongoing resource, with the ability to quickly and easily access a variety of school-based strategies to help improve educational and social outcomes for traumatized students.

Download or read book Trauma Doesn t Stop at the School Door written by Karen Gross and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how educational institutions have failed to recognize and effectively address the symptoms of trauma in students of all ages. Given the prevalence of traumatic events in our world, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Gross argues that it is time for educational institutions and those who work within them to change their approaches and responses to traumatic symptoms that manifest in students in schools and colleges. These changes can alter how and what we teach, how we train teachers, how we structure our calendars and create our schedules, how we address student behavior and disciplinary issues, and how we design our physical space. Drawing on real-life examples and scenarios that will be familiar to educators, this resource provides concrete suggestions to assist institutions in becoming trauma-responsive environments, including replicable macro- and microchanges. Book Features: Focuses on trauma within the early childhood-adult educational pipeline. Explains how trauma is often cumulative, with recent traumatic events often triggering a revival of traumatic symptomology from decades ago. Provides clarifications of currently used terms and scoring systems and offers new and alternative approaches to identifying and ameliorating trauma. Includes visual images to augment the descriptions in the text.

Download or read book Trauma Sensitive Schools for the Adolescent Years written by Susan E. Craig and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to her bestseller, Trauma-Sensitive Schools, Susan Craig provides secondary school teachers and administrators with a trauma-sensitive approach to instruction that will improve students’ achievement. The text provides an overview of the effects of three types of trauma on adolescent development: early childhood adversity, community violence, and systemic inequities. Book Features: Provides an overview of the effects of three types of trauma on adolescent development: early childhood adversity, community violence, and systemic inequities.Links the effects of trauma on students’ cognitive development to educational reform efforts.Integrates research on adolescents’ neurodevelopment and current educational best practices.Builds the capacity of education professionals to successfully manage the behavior of adolescents with symptoms of complex developmental trauma. ?Susan Craig’s book provides the scientific evidence and the reasons why it is so critical that schools take this new path in serving our students.? ?From the Foreword by Jim Sporleder, principal profiled in the documentary Paper Tigers ?A uniquely comprehensive and accessible resource for all educators and school administrators.? ?Eric Rossen, National Association of School Psychologists ?An in-depth look into the impact of trauma on the adolescent brain along with ideas about how educators can support student learning. This is an essential book for any secondary educator or administrator.? ?Sara Daniel, director of clinical services, SaintA, Milwaukee, WI

Download or read book Assessing Teacher Attitudes Related to Trauma informed Care in Three Urban High Schools written by Erica Leigh Wendel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased awareness of the impact and prevalence of trauma among youth has fueled interest in trauma-informed service delivery in diverse settings, especially among schools and school-based mental health centers. Given the substantial mental health risks facing youth populations with high incidences of complex stress and trauma (Perfect et al., 2016), it is imperative to identify interventions that promote resilience, improve access to trauma-sensitive mental health services, and bolster academic outcomes. School personnel, including administrators, teachers, and staff, have frequent and regular contact with youth throughout the school year. The consistent relationship between school personnel and students in the school context makes for an ideal environment to engage in trauma-informed teaching and mental-health care modalities. Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) describes an approach to mental health service that integrates an understanding of the pervasive effects of trauma on youth, with an approach to intervention that addresses associated biopsychosocial factors. TIC programming in schools is a method of intervening with traumatized youth, incorporating multiple systems that impact their lives. While the foundational research on the effectiveness of trauma-informed programs applied to other settings is promising, the evidence-base for trauma-informed programming in schools is in need of further development. More specifically, existing research has defined a direction for future inquiry: the exploration of both system- and individual-level variables as potential mediators of change throughout the TIC program implementation process. Because teachers play a key role in school-based TIC programming, their level of engagement and degree of buy-in are critical to the implementation, efficacy, and sustainability of these programs. In order to better understand the process of implementation of TIC programs in schools, research on teacher beliefs and attitudes toward TIC is needed to inform future TIC programming and evaluation efforts. The purpose of the current study was to examine the attitudes of teachers toward TIC across three urban high schools that participate in a multi-tiered, trauma-informed mental health care intervention. Given the nascent literature base related to correlates and outcomes associated with TIC interventions, this study also aimed to assess the predictive value of teacher characteristics, including perceived self-efficacy and several demographic features, on their attitudes toward TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma Informed Care (ARTIC) scale was used to determine whether there are meaningful differences in teacher attitudes within schools across different phases of implementation and tiers of intervention participation in a TIC model of school-based mental health care delivery. Qualitative methods were used to investigate specific contributors to observed differences in attitudes toward TIC among teachers with the relative highest and lowest composite scores on the ARTIC. Results from a series of hierarchical regression models evidenced a significant effect of tier of participation in the intervention in predicting teacher attitudes related to TIC. Findings from the qualitative phase of this study showed that teachers with relatively more favorable attitudes differed from teachers with less favorable attitudes along several important characteristics related to trauma-informed care, including their conceptualizations of factors that influence student success at school, behavior management strategies, and approaches to the teacher-student relationship. Teachers also discussed their involvement with and perceptions of the TIC programming at their respective campuses. The findings presented in this study support the development of an emerging body of evidence that sheds light on the design, implementation, and sustainability of trauma sensitive, school-based mental health care and programs for school-aged youth. The findings also propose important considerations for educators, administrators, and educational policy makers with regard to the practical application of trauma-informed systems of care in schools.

Download or read book Active Training written by Melvin L. Silberman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-time bestselling training handbook, updated for new technologies and roles Active Training turns instructional design on its head by shifting the emphasis away from the instructor, and on to the learner. Comprehensively updated to reflect the many developments in the field, this new fourth edition covers the latest technologies and applications, the evolving role of the trainer, and how new business realities impact training, advancing new evidence-based best practices for new trainer tasks, skills, and knowledge. Up to date theory and research inform the practical tips and techniques that fully engage learners and help them get the most out of sessions, while updated workplace examples and revised templates and worksheets help bring these techniques into the classroom quickly. You'll gain insight into improving training evaluation by using Return on Expectations (ROE), learn how to extend the value of training programs through transfer of learning, and develop fresh, engaging methods that incorporate state-of-the-art applications. Active Training designs offer just the right amount of content; the right balance of affective, behavioral, and cognitive learning; a variety of approaches; real-life problem solving; gradual skill-building; and engaging delivery that uses the participants' expertise as a foundation for learning. This book is the classic guide to employing Active Training methods effectively and appropriately for almost any topic. Learn how the trainer's role has changed Engage learners through any training delivery method Inspire collaboration and innovation through application Overcome the challenges trainers face in the new business environment Active Training methods make training sessions fun, engaging, relevant, and most importantly, effective. Participants become enthusiastic about the material, and view sessions as interesting challenges rather than as means to fulfill requirements. To bring these widely endorsed methods into your training repertoire, Active Training is the complete practical handbook you need.

Download or read book Trauma Sensitive Schools written by Susan Craig and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing evidence supports the important relationship between trauma and academic failure. Along with the failure of “zero tolerance” policies to resolve issues of school safety and a new understanding of children’s disruptive behavior, educators are changing the way they view children’s academic and social problems. In response, the trauma-sensitive schools movement presents a new vision for promoting children’s success. This book introduces this promising approach and provides K–5 education professionals with clear explanations of current research and dozens of practical, creative ideas to help them. Integrating research on children’s neurodevelopment and educational best practices, this important book will build the capacity of teachers and school administrators to successfully manage the behavior of children with symptoms of complex developmental trauma. “Kudos! Susan Craig has done it again. After Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt, she has written a book that will help administrators and educators truly make schoolwide trauma sensitivity a regular part of the way their schools are run. A major contribution to education reform.” —Susan Cole, director, Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, Massachusetts Advocates for Children, and Harvard Law School. “Dr. Craig’s message is clear that promoting self-reflection, self-regulation and integration gives traumatized children the chance at learning that they’re not getting in traditional approaches. And she bravely points out that it’s critical for teachers to recognize the toll that this emotional work can take and the need for self-care. Being mindful of both the importance of trauma sensitive systems and the enormity of the task of helping vulnerable children build resilience is so critical for everyone working with and caring for our children.” —Julie Beem, MBA, Executive Director of the Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.

Download or read book How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences written by Lisa H. Jaycox and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tool kit describes how trauma exposure impacts students' performance and behavior and provides a compendium of programs for schools to support the long-term recovery of traumatized students. It also compares the programs with one another.

Download or read book Development and Evaluation of a Trauma informed Teacher Training written by Amie De Harpporte and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students in high-poverty contexts often experience trauma or toxic stress, which diminishes their ability to learn and to function effectively in a classroom. Teachers report feeling unprepared to meet the mental health needs of their students. The purpose of this study was to develop a trauma-informed teacher training and to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. The participants were the teachers and staff of an urban charter school in the Midwest serving predominantly Somali families, all of whom have experienced poverty and many of whom have experienced trauma associated with war, the refugee experience, or acculturation stress. A pretest-posttest design was used to assess changes in participants' knowledge of trauma, compassion toward students, perception of positive relationships with students, self-care, and confidence in using discipline. Results indicated that the series of teacher-training workshops was found to be valuable by school staff, who expressed appreciation for learning about the signs and symptoms of trauma, the physiological impact of trauma on the brain, how such physiological effects impact student behavior, the importance of positive relationships with students, and recognizing secondary traumatic stress in themselves. Although the small sample size is a limitation in this study and compromised its ability to find quantitative evidence of change over time, there is tentative evidence that a teacher training about trauma and toxic stress may be an effective way to help teachers internalize a trauma-informed perspective on students and their behavior.