Behaviour
Reducing Exclusions Through a Trauma Informed Approach
Keep children who've lived through trauma in the room and learning, by calming the fear that sits behind the outbursts and the shutdowns.
- 36 minutes
- 8 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Recognise anger, anxiety and shutdown as fight, flight or freeze
- Help a child feel safe physically, emotionally, socially and in their thinking
- Use slow, low, low to calm a child who is overwhelmed
- Respond to challenging behaviour with curiosity rather than anger
- Repair the relationship after an incident and plan what to do next time
About this course
Children who've lived with trauma are more likely to be excluded. Sometimes that's a formal exclusion after a big, angry moment. Sometimes it's quieter: the child who stays in their seat, causes no trouble and has switched off completely.
Both are a fear response, and this course helps you get underneath it. You'll learn why a brain shaped by danger jumps to fight, flight or freeze, and why every calm moment helps to change that. You'll learn to make a child feel safe as well as be safe, and to calm them with your voice using "slow, low, low": slower, lower in tone, lower in volume. When their behaviour tests you, you'll get curious about what's driving it rather than furious.
Nobody gets this right every time. There's a section on repairing things after it goes wrong, which may be the first time a child has seen how that's done.
- For early career teachers, governors and 4 other roles. Early years, post-16, primary and secondary.
8 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Introduction
- 2 min
Wrap up, next steps and course notes
- 8 min
Trauma rewires the brain; but brains are plastic
- 5 min
First, keep them safe
- 6 min
Work with families
- 10 min
It starts with the adults
- 3 min
Be curious not furious
- 4 min
When things go wrong