Trauma Informed Practice

Trauma Informed Practice

The teacher education conference provided me with several practical tools that were valuable. I attended several workshops.

I particularly loved Gail Lalonde's lecture on the importance of trauma-informed practice. For me, that clarified a lot of things. Although I frequently hear the word "trauma," each item for discussion was broken down and explained.

One of the things I found really disturbing when I moved to Canada and started supplying in schools and doing my placements was some of the student's behaviour and the utter disrespect to their teachers and some of their classmates and the lack of classroom management in some of those classes that I supplied in. I initially thought this was just the consequence of bad behaviour that was not addressed as students in Nigeria where I came from were better behaved and quite respectful but the trauma class has dispelled any fears that I had about how to manage future class as we were encouraged to know our students and not just decide that the student was just badly behaved, the issue could be some kind trauma deep down or a call for help or need for attention and she let us know the resources available to us should issues like this arise in our classes as the goal of trauma-informed teaching is to promote healing by avoiding re-traumatizing individuals and promoting safety, choice, and control.

References

Trauma-informed practice principles - cewh.ca. (n.d.). Retrieved March 30, 2023, from https://cewh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TIP-principles-Reflective-questions-2017.pdf  

Trynia Kaufman, M. S. (2023, February 8). What is trauma-informed teaching? Understood. Retrieved March 30, 2023, from https://www.understood.org/en/articles/what-is-trauma-informed-teaching

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