Reconnecting to learning – understanding the traumatised child (trauma sensitive pedagogies in Australian education))

[ms spock]

So I went to the below conference today which was run by the Queensland Teacher's Union. The two women who ran it were brilliant. I had a rough day of it. Yesterday was dealing with my partner's cousin who ripped us off substantial money and got very aggressive and threatening at one point (all documented at the local police station). I was already triggered and I drove away afterwards and had a melt down in a car park in private. I bawled my eyes out.

Has anyone else done training similar to the below?

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I was wondering have any American educators done any training like this?

How did you manage?

Has anyone studied with the Child Trauma Academy in the USA? How did you find it?

One of them had also done an even more advanced course which requires a Masters to gain entry but she apparently can work out which parts of the brain where damaged at with stages of childhood development and work out strategies that can be used movement, rocking, weighted blankets etc. I found that fascinating. Does anyone know anything about this?

 

[TruthSeeker]

I'm a recently retired special needs teacher. Here in Virginia, a couple of years back, it was required for us to have a one day training which would give us the basic knowledge and call us "trauma informed." Our division is always one of the first in the state to move in a new direction. We got the one day training and that was it. While it was really helpful, and I had kids with DDNOS/ONDD and CPTSD, and as a special educator....this one day training was not enough. Strategies should have been the next workshop, but that never occurred. If the division is less inclined to have a strong Christian religious population, I believe there is more of a tendency to see mindfulness practices encourage by our psychologist. But in the south/eastern state which are highly Christian (meditation/yoga/mindfullness are Eastern practices, and the Church and State may not come together. So instead of teaching deep breathing, yoga, stretching, and other techniques to quell the mind, decompress, and get behavior in order....they sit in a little room and do bogus assignments.

 

[willhealeventually]

Recently, I took a workshop on the impact of childhood trauma on learning for teaching. I just stepped out of teaching in the US.
It was a good workshop because it helped me to see how traumatized kids may react to anything other than a kind, soft spoken teacher. There are many more students now with trauma, anxiety, depression. It’s helpful to learn how to behave and speak to help these kids relax in the classroom - or they can’t learn.
The strategies are similar to what most ptsd survivors would learn in treatment, I think. Whatever we practice to talk ourselves off a cliff, we teach the kids to practice.
I could not make it as a teacher with ptsd, unfortunately... so I had to change careers.