Trauma Informed Teaching Circle
Trauma affects many of our students here at CCP, including their physical and mental health, and ability to learn and succeed in reaching their goals. Students with toxic stress may miss more class, have difficulty completing assignments, and behave in ways that are disruptive to others and counter-productive to their success. Fortunately, there are concrete ways that we as faculty can foster resilience and help all students to be positive and successful.
In the Trauma-Informed Learning Community, faculty will integrate at least five of the following trauma-informed practices into one of their courses this fall: community building, resource access, mindfulness practice, enhanced communication, teaching a unit on trauma and resilience, social-emotional learning activities, and brain breaks. We will meet four times throughout the semester to check in and evaluate these practices, producing a summative report to benefit the college.