Registration Cost: $30. Children come to the classroom from many places with many experiences. Research from the pre-pandemic era showed that more than half of our students would have inevitably had traumatic stresses in their lives. Currently, all your students and staff are living through the collective trauma of the pandemic in addition to those stressors. These traumatic experiences shape their behavior, impact brain development, and can create social and emotional concerns that last throughout their lifetime. When educators understand the impact of trauma they can better meet the needs of students and shift to support models that set all students up for success. This workshop will give an overview of the impact of trauma on adolescents and help teachers create trauma-informed classrooms that are responsive to the social-emotional needs of students.. Attendees will understand the nature of trauma and the impact it has on the brain, body and genome. Guidance will be provided for teachers who may begin to recognize the impact of trauma in their own lives and the lives of their students, and an emphasis on resilience building will be prevalent throughout the workshop.
This webinar will be recorded and available to those who register to replay for two weeks following the live event.
Colleen Wilkinson is an AMS-credentialed teacher (Early Childhood), teacher educator, consultant, and a Director at Montessori Country Day School in Houston, Texas. She lives with her wife, teenage daughter, and many pets in the suburbs. She serves on the AMS Peace and Social Justice Committee. In her local school district, she serves on the Special Education Parent Advisory Committee and District Education Improvement Committee. In addition to her partnership with trauma-informed care and social justice organizations, she provides professional development and support groups for parents and educators. She is passionate about trauma-informed care, ABAR work, adoption and foster care, and disability rights.
“The most important aspect of a Montessori classroom isn’t the Pink Tower or the Colored Bead Stair, it is the relationship you have with each and every one of your students.” - Colleen Wilkinson
Find out more about Colleen’s work:
www.ColleenWilkinson.com
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