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    This document provides information and strategies for teachers to help students who have experienced trauma. It defines trauma and discusses how trauma affects the brain and body. Trauma can impact students' ability to focus, communicate, and engage in the classroom. The document outlines emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms students may exhibit after trauma. It recommends creating a safe classroom environment and responding supportively if a student has a trauma response. Teachers are advised to provide structure, predictability, compassion, and help students feel in control and soothed. The document shares a story of one student's experience and asks what advice teachers would give to support her.

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    This document provides information and strategies for teachers to help students who have experienced trauma. It defines trauma and discusses how trauma affects the brain and body. Trauma can impact students' ability to focus, communicate, and engage in the classroom. The document outlines emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms students may exhibit after trauma. It recommends creating a safe classroom environment and responding supportively if a student has a trauma response. Teachers are advised to provide structure, predictability, compassion, and help students feel in control and soothed. The document shares a story of one student's experience and asks what advice teachers would give to support her.

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    This document provides information and strategies for teachers to help students who have experienced trauma. It defines trauma and discusses how trauma affects the brain and body. Trauma can impact students' ability to focus, communicate, and engage in the classroom. The document outlines emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms students may exhibit after trauma. It recommends creating a safe classroom environment and responding supportively if a student has a trauma response. Teachers are advised to provide structure, predictability, compassion, and help students feel in control and soothed. The document shares a story of one student's experience and asks what advice teachers would give to support her.

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    Teaching Students Living With Trauma

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    This document provides information and strategies for teachers to help students who have experienced trauma. It defines trauma and discusses how trauma affects the brain and body. Trauma can impact students' ability to focus, communicate, and engage in the classroom. The document outlines emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms students may exhibit after trauma. It recommends creating a safe classroom environment and responding supportively if a student has a trauma response. Teachers are advised to provide structure, predictability, compassion, and help students feel in control and soothed. The document shares a story of one student's experience and asks what advice teachers would give to support her.

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    Teaching

    Students
    Living With
    Trauma
    Elena Perrello, EdD
    School Counselor
    [email protected]
    Creating Safety in Your
    Classroom

    1) Who are you?
    2) What are you feeling right now?
    3) What is your goal for this session?
    4) Who can you ask for help?

    Sandra Bloom The Sanctuary Model
    hIp://sanctuaryweb.com/TheSanctuaryModel.aspx
    Todays learners
    will be able to:
    Dene trauma
    Understand how trauma
    aects the body and brain
    IdenUfy possible student
    reacUons to trauma
    Describe useful strategies
    for teaching students who
    experience trauma

    What types of trauma do
    students experience?

    Please brainstorm a list with the


    people siVng around you.
    Trauma may include.
    How does trauma affect
    the brain?
    Think about a Ume you
    experienced stress.

    How did it aect your body?

    How did it aect your thinking?
    Toxic Stress Derails
    Healthy Development

    Video from Harvard Universitys


    Center on the Developing Child
    hIps://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=chhQc0HShCo
    Exposure to Trauma can
    impact student ability to:
    Focus or maintain aIenUon
    Develop language skills properly
    Communicate wants and needs eecUvely
    Organize and remember new informaUon
    AIend to classroom acUviUes
    TransiUon from one task to another
    Follow step-by-step instrucUons
    Comply with adult direcUves
    Grasp cause and eect relaUonships easily
    Engage in creaUve play
    Problem-solve
    Resolve conict
    IniUate and culUvate healthy interpersonal
    relaUonships
    Respond to cues in the environment objecUvely
    What are some emotional
    symptoms of student trauma?
    intense anger, irritability, mood swings
    guilt, shame or self-blame
    feeling sad, hopeless and depressed
    diculty concentraUng and focusing
    withdrawing /isolaUng from others
    appearing disconnected, numb or zoned out with
    a blank stare
    anxiety or fear

    What are some physical
    symptoms of student trauma?
    Behavioral
    Symptoms.
    What are some behavioral
    symptoms of student trauma?
    (Get ATTENTION,
    Get CONTROL,
    Get COMFORT)

    Behavioral symptoms continued....
    (Get ATTENTION, Get CONTROL,
    Get COMFORT)
    What are some behavioral symptoms
    of student trauma?
    (Get ATTENTION, Get CONTROL, Get
    COMFORT)
    Behavioral symptoms continued....
    (Get ATTENTION, Get CONTROL,
    Get COMFORT)
    Potential Triggers
    Aces Resilience Video

    hIps://vimeo.com/137282528

    Resilience trailer
    What
    might
    help.?
    What do I do?
    What do I do?

    hIp://www.acesconnecUon.com/blog/trauma-informed-support-for-children-a-follow-
    up-to-what-lies-beneath-behavior
    How can we best respond when a student
    is having a posttraumatic stress response?
    How can we provide a safe
    learning environment?
    Creating a Safe Classroom
    Environment Cont.
    What can help a student manage
    trauma?
    Samanthas Story
    Background cont
    What advice
    would you
    give to
    Samathas
    English, Math
    and/or PE
    teachers?
    Sources:

    hIps://www.edutopia.org/blog/addressing-our-needs-maslow-
    hierarchy-lori-desautels
    Check out:
    https://ssetprogram.org/sset/
    course/contentpage/1524

    suport for students exposed to


    trauma free training
    SSET

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