Optimizing Learning Outcomes: Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive Practices

ISBN-13: 9781138677616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 244 str.

William Steele

Opis

Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today s schools. Chapters provide a wide array of evidence-based resources including links to video segments that promote understanding, discussion, and successful modeling. Accessible how-to trainings provide readers with multiple sensory-based practices that improve academic success and promote behavioral regulation. Clinicians and educators will come away from this book with a variety of tools for facilitating brain-based, trauma-sensitive learning for all, realizing improved learning outcomes, improving teacher satisfaction, and reducing disciplinary actions and suspensions."

Spis treści

About the Editor  Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1.21^st Century Neuroscience, Learning and Behavior: Not Doing More-Doing Differently William Steele  2. On Becoming a Self-Reg Haven Stuart Shanker and Susan Hopkins  3.Multi Sensory Practices for All: Changing Physiology, Behavior and Performance Roberta Sherf and Chris Bye  4.Students With Sensory Processing Challenges: Classroom Strategies Lindsey Biel  5.Brief Connections That Matter (CTMs): Student-Teacher Relationship William Steele  6. Growth Mindsets for Learning: Effective Effort Emily Diehl  7. Teacher Resilience, Sustained Effectiveness, and Self-Care William Steele  8. In School Neurological Reparative Therapy For Traumatized Students David Ziegler  9. A Vision for a Trauma-Sensitive School Susan F. Cole, Anne Eisner, Michael Gregory and Joel Ristuccia  10.Compassionate Schools: Responding to Kids Impacted by Adversity, Trauma, and Toxic Stress Ron Hertel and Susan O. Kincaid  Appendices:  Additional Sensory Processing Strategies Lindsey Biehl  Trauma Related Intervention Considerations for IEP/504 Plan: Case Example Kathie Ritchie  Additional Teaching & Learning Resources Kathie Ritchie  Compassionate Schools Resources Ron Hertel and Susan O. Kincaid

O autorze

William Steele, PsyD, MSW, is the founder and was, for twenty-three years, the director of the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC), where he created trauma-specific, registered, evidence-based intervention programs and resources for schools and agencies. These programs are currently used in fifty-five countries. Now retired from TLC, he continues to write, consult, and train educators and practitioners across the United States.