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Trauma & Resiliency Informed Pedagogy

This guide is an offer of guidance and support for professors teaching online. Both personal and professional trauma informed and resilience based practices will be shared.If you have any resources or ideas for this guide, please feel free to share!

Courses

MOOC: Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change

 The course description defines resilient teaching as:

"...the ability to facilitate learning experiences that are designed to be adaptable to fluctuating conditions and disruptions. This teaching ability can be seen as an outcome of a design approach that attends to the relationship between learning goals and activities, and the environments they are situated in. Resilient teaching approaches take into account how a dynamic learning context may require new forms of interactions between teachers, students, content, and tools. Additionally, they necessitate the capacity to rethink the design of learning experiences based on a nuanced understanding of context."

This MOOC can be taken online for free, though you must pay to take if you want your assignments to be graded and to receive a certificate at the end. Coursera has financial aid available for those in need of it.

FUTURE LEARN: Teaching Students Who Have Suffered Complex Trauma

Complex trauma affects the physical, emotional and social development of children and adolescents. In this course, you’ll get an introduction to what complex trauma is and how it affects young people’s development at school. You’ll understand the neuroscience behind the behaviours presented by students who have experienced complex trauma. You’ll learn how to apply trauma-informed strategies and policies that will minimise the risk to students and school staff.

COURSERA: School Health for Children and Adolescents Specialization 

Upon taking this specialization, learners will learn about various components of school health program, such as: Health education, physical education, health services, nutrition services, counseling, psychological, and social services, healthy and safe school environment, and last but not least family/ community involvement.

Health Equity Certificate: A Public Health Essential

This free course serves as a primer for illustrating the root causes that shape health and health disparities. In addition to describing the complex interplay of social conditions associated with health disparities, it also provides a framework for exploring public and community health frameworks for addressing health equity.

The Sanctuary Model

The Sanctuary Model® represents a theory-based, trauma-informed, trauma-responsive, evidence-supported, whole culture approach that has a clear and structured methodology for creating or changing an organizational culture.