Description

This course is designed to further understand trauma invested practices to promote resilient learners to thrive. In this course educators will explore how to cultivate learning and thriving environments where children and adults are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. This course will equip you with the knowledge, awareness, and skills to support student success.

Purpose:

The purpose of this course is to allow educators to expand knowledge and develop skills to promote trauma invested practices. This course will discuss how to infuse the three components of relationships, responsibility, and regulation to help mitigate the four areas of needs: emotional, relational, physical, and control.

*Fostering Resilient Learners is recommended as a prerequisite to this course.

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

1. Become more aware of how educators can be the change agent for children and families.
2. Understand the spectrum of trauma practices and the components of each area of focus.
3. Understand how being mindful of unmet needs leads to creating effective intervention plans.
4. Learn how strategies incorporating relationships, responsibility, and regulation foster readiness to learn.

 Required Textbook:

Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners, Authors: Kristin Van Marter Souers with Pete Hall, Published 2019 ASCD