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

ISBN-13: 9780807761472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019

Douglas Fisher; Nancy Frey; Rachelle S. Savitz

Opis

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.

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• Contents
• Introduction: Trauma, Teaching, and Learning  1
• Personal Trauma and Its Lasting Effects  2
• Trauma and Its Effects on Young People 4
• But Past Is Not Prologue 5
• The Purpose of This Book 6
• 1. The Protective Power of Relationships 9
• Relationships and Traumatized Youth 10
• Teacher–Student Relationships 11
• Differential Treatment of Students  13
• The Damaging Effects of Humiliation and Sarcasm 14
• Interrupt the Pattern 19
• Measuring Teacher–Student Relationships Through Warmth and Conflict 21
• The Warm Demander 24
• Build the Resilience of Students Through Stronger Relationships 25
• 2. Social and Emotional Learning Is Woven into the Curriculum 29
• Identity and Agency 30
• Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom 32
• Integrating Identity and Agency  33
• Peer Relationships and Social Capital 37
• Addressing Bullying and Cyberbullying 44
• Suicide Prevention  45
• Build the Resilience of Students Through Social and Emotional Learning 50
• 3. Utilizing Literacies to Maximize Learning 53
• The Power of Literature 55
• Identity and Literacy Response 56
• Literacies as Levers to Maximize Learning for Traumatized Youth  57
• Relevance and Triggers 58
• Using Discussion for Engaging and Active Dialogue 62
• Secondary Trauma and Discussion 62
• Empathy Through Reading and Discussion 63
• Using Discussion Tools 64
• Teachers’ Responses and Disclosures 67
• Writing as Catharsis 68
• Story Writing with Young Children 69
• Writing with Adolescents 70
• Locating Appropriate Literature for Reading, Discussion, and Writing 71
• Build the Resilience of Students Through Literacies 73
• 4. Teaching for Empowerment 75
• Learner Empowerment and Engagement 77
• Empowerment Is Action-Oriented 78
• Relational Conditions for Empowerment 79
• Choice and Voice 80
• Research and Inquiry as Tools for Empowerment 81
• Three Kinds of Debate of Controversial Topics 88
• Civics Education and Engagement 92
• Building Resilience Through Empowerment 96
• 5. School Communities as Agents of Change 99
• The Mask Project 99
• Complex Trauma Requires Complex Responses 100
• Trauma-Sensitive Schooling 101
• Characteristics of a Trauma-Sensitive School 102
• A Logic Model for a Trauma-Sensitive School 104
• Home-Like Schools Build Resilience Through Change 113
• Literature Cited 115
• References 116
• Index 127
• About the Authors 138