Health and Wellbeing
Simple Steps Towards a Trauma Aware Classroom
Understand what early trauma does to a child's day in class, and make simple changes that help them feel safe enough to learn.
- 56 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Recognise when a child has been pushed outside their window of tolerance
- Respond in the right order: regulate first, then relate, then reason
- Spot lessons and routines that could trigger a care-experienced child
- Adjust seating, displays and transitions to help a child feel safe
- Keep undiagnosed needs, such as FASD or sensory difficulties, in mind
About this course
The pupil who shouts out all lesson, or crashes around after break and can't settle, is rarely just choosing to. After early trauma or disrupted care, a child's stress response can go off at things nobody else notices, and a sanction won't reach them while they're in that state.
You'll learn two simple models to make sense of it: the window of tolerance, and "regulate, relate, reason" for the order in which to respond. Then come everyday adjustments, like seating a hypervigilant child where they can see the door, or rethinking the baby-photo and family-tree lessons that can land hard on a child in care.
It's taught by a former secondary teacher who went on to foster and adopt, and who shares the things she wishes she'd known in the classroom.
- For early career teachers, middle leaders and 4 other roles. Primary, secondary and special.
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