The Impact of Trauma on Learning Part 2: Classroom Behavior

Common behavioral adaptations in children to trauma include:
-- Aggression
-- Defiance
-- Withdrawal
-- Perfectionism
-- Hyperactivity, reactivity, impulsiveness
-- Rapid and unexpected emotional shifts
For many children who have experienced traumatic events, the school setting can feel like a battleground in which their assumptions of the world as a dangerous place sabotage their ability to remain calm and regulate their behavior in the classroom. Unfortunately, many of these children develop behavioral coping mechanisms in an effort to feel safe and in control, yet these behaviors can frustrate educators and evoke exasperated reprisals, reactions that both strengthen the child’s expectations of confrontation and danger and reinforce a negative self-image.
The Impact of Trauma on Learning Part 2: Classroom Behavior (part 2 of 3 parts)
See also the 1st and 3rd part of this video:
The Impact of Trauma on Learning Part 1: Academic Performance
(view part 1 here) • The Impact of Trauma o...
The Impact of Trauma on Learning Part 3: Relationships
(view part 3 here) • The Impact of Trauma o...
and see also the first video in this series:
How Prevalent is Traumatic Experience?
(view on TH-cam) • How Prevalent is Traum...
Presenter: Joel Ristuccia, Ed.M.
The Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
More information is on our website : www.traumasens...

[@elizabethprestwood8201]

All students have different needs and this is an important reminder.

[@armandoreyes1995]

Important to watch and monitor students as they develop their coping skills.

[@cyndigeiger2736]

Student safety is first and foremost. If students do not feel safe, they will be in a constant mode of hypervigilance. This will act as a barrier all day everyday to learning, regulating and developing healthy coping skills.

[@CatherineDow-z2i]

Great training

[@EveryChildDeservesAChampion]

Joel this a wonderful training. Thank you for this.

[@sarahmartineau7277]

Hi thank you for this . I'm in Quebec, Canada and we don't talk about this . I've been researching this on my own because I'm dealing with special care children who come from a lot of adversity. I have a child in my classroom who is extremely hyper vigilant he is unable to sit still he always has to clean and rearrange his environment. He has rapid mood shifts and has a very harsh inner dialogue. He frequently breaks his pencils when it's writing time and talks a lot without raising his hand and cutting me off. He demands a lot of connexion . I really care and want to help him but it's difficult because I have 7 other students who get irritated by him . I'm pretty good in Staying emotionnally regulated and kind and patient but my students (10-12 yo) get irritated and then my student feels validated in his inner narrative that " every one hates him " because of their reaction. I would need help and my school is NOT trauma informed so they will not see his behaviour through the trauma lense . Please can you guide me to books or training i cam do online so I can help my student ? Thank you!!

[@cherylbennett762]

I have family members with ADHD and it can be truly dabilitating

[@elizabethprestwood8201]

excellent reminder of children's differences

[@jorgemoreno2718]

very informative video.

[@jenniferstenuis9189]

it is important to watch and engage with the students that seem unaffected by the trama.