Trauma-Informed Educational Practices √ §
Reflecting Collaboratively About Healthy Classroom Climates
Location
Online
Date & Time
June 17, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
As we return to virtual and in-person classrooms this summer and fall, how can we cultivate awareness of trauma-informed educational practices to support our students and ourselves? While faculty and students experience traumatic events throughout their lives, the global pandemic and endemic racism have created ongoing, overarching traumatic events, heightened by each person’s individual experiences. The result can be “a cognitive burden comparable to a full-time job,” according to some experts. How can we help our students learn as they (and we) manage this added cognitive load? Join with colleagues to discuss readings on trauma-informed pedagogy and explore ways to support students.
- Blog post by Cathy Davidson
- Podcast on Trauma-informed Pedagogy
- Journal Article on Trauma-Informed Education Practice (Especially pages 9-13 on Principles and Practices to Enhance Classroom Safety)
- What Does Trauma-Informed Teaching Look Like? Article from the Chronicle
- How can we help our students to manage the pandemic and race-based stress and trauma they are experiencing and still learn successfully in our classes?
- What can we do to help students with their self-regulation skills (i.e., planning, remembering, focusing), which can be compromised by trauma?
- How can you build a support network for yourself as you prepare to support students?
Please click “Going” below to reserve your seat for this session and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions.
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Counts toward ALIT Certificate
§ Counts towards INNOVATE Certificate
§ Counts towards INNOVATE Certificate
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Part of the FDC The Diverse Classroom Series!
UMBC’s Faculty Development Center continues the Diverse Classroom Series launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
UMBC’s Faculty Development Center continues the Diverse Classroom Series launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
- How can you learn about your classroom audience to better connect with your students and reflect on their learning needs?
- How can you make your classroom more hospitable for all learners?
- How can you handle sensitive discussions in your classroom?
- How can you ensure that students from different academic and social backgrounds and with different physical and cognitive abilities experience classrooms where they are welcomed, challenged, and supported?
- Faculty and staff who aspire to make their classrooms more inclusive of our diverse student population.
- For additional resources, see https://fdc.umbc.edu/resources/the-diverse-classroom/
