In recent years students have come into my classroom having seen things at home that would have broken an adult. School is the only place that provides a sense of stability in their lives. Sadly, some of these students still fight with this stability and lash out to gain attention in the only ways they know how. While finding the root of the trauma can be useful information, students may not always be willing to provide it. What would be useful is knowing strategies to engage students and family members to provide a meaningful education. I already know that students who have faced trauma process information differently. Maybe they seek attention in negative ways. We educators often label them as behavior students since what they do might not be our classroom norm. We are asking a lot of these students. We are asking them to put aside the things they have seen or heard or experienced and to participate in something that may be very low on their priority list at the moment.
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Stephen
9/23/2018 03:25:16 pm
You sum up so concisely what I am also wrestling with on a daily basis. While I do not want to compromise the learning environment for my other students, I also go to great lengths to not send a student to the office. Some time one things works with one student, sometimes the same thing falls flat. Thanks for you thoughtful blog post!
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