Trauma-Informed Practice in the Classroom: Some understandings of traumatised learners and practical strategies to help them

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The session will comprise:

1. An overview of current work – high school with population of students with a large trauma base and low levels of literacy along the outer western corridor of Brisbane.
2. A little about trauma impacts and cumulative harm impacts on brain development, including showing a 5- minute Youtube video, entitled How Brains are Built: The Core Story of Brain Development(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmVWOe1ky8s)
3. Observations of students in the classroom: the typical ones such as being loud and aggressive; and the not so typical: sitting and staring ahead throughout a 70-minute lesson, head down on desk the entire time, or the ones who are too anxious to come into class
4. References to her paper, ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’, in publication for the journal Vision
5. Some strategies to help deal this this cohort of learners.Maree Stevens’ presentation ad