Safe to Learn
Description
We know education is not a level playing field. Those living with early adversity are starting school significantly less likely to complete their education than their peers who have things easier. When educators and schools understand childhood trauma, they are well placed to embed wellbeing practices into every interaction, and when those interactions are trauma-informed and trauma-responsive, students' lives are positively impacted in a deep and enduring way.
Safe to Learn offers readers an understanding of behaviour through the lens of trauma and adversity and provides practical strategies for primary schools and educators to become trauma-informed and responsive in a way that best supports all students, regardless of their life experiences.
Safe to Learn offers guidance for schools to introduce, or expand, a whole-school model of integrated wellbeing practice and support for individual teachers to learn how they can make a significant difference to their students. This book also provides the tools to identify which interventions may benefit a student or class and ideas for tracking and showing wellbeing growth.
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Content
Introduction
1 Trauma and adversity
2 The brain
3 The nervous system
4 Attachment, a blueprint for relationships
5 Trauma, the body and self-narrative
6 Trauma, adversity, behaviour and learning
7 Safety, resilience and sense of self
8 Relationships
9 Classroom strategies for supporting student behaviour
10 Behavioural strategies for individual students
11 Embedding a whole-school approach
12 How we teach wellbeing
13 Embedding educator wellbeing
Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
About the author
