Second Hand: How Student Trauma Effects You
First hand trauma is difficult to deal with. What is often overlooked is the trauma that educators receive second hand from learning about and hearing about the daily trauma their students face.
Impact of Trauma-Informed Training... Learning Program on Teacher Attitudes & Burnout: Study
This article explores mindfulness-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs that aim to equip teachers with the tools needed to establish a trauma-informed classroom. The article focuses on the potential benefits from trauma-informed training and MindUP delivery on educators as they utilized the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. From their findings, educators showed significant decreases in reported emotional exhaustion, and greatest improvement in self-efficacy and personal accomplishment. This demonstrates the potential benefits of infusing trauma-informed training with mindfulness-based SEL intervention.
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How Personal Trauma Can Lead to Teacher Burnout
This article focuses on the prevalent issue of teacher burnout and the effects of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). Unfortunately stress is very common for teachers, as many struggle to set boundaries and focus on their own personal needs. For teachers, not only is students' trauma central to the stressors of the everyday life, but also to the teachers' own trauma. By staying trauma-informed teachers can help to understand and identify the impacts of secondary trauma, realize they are not alone, and begin to learn to put themselves first.
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Preservice Teacher Burnout: Secondary Trauma and Self-Care Issues in Teacher Education
This article focuses on the effects of student trauma, secondary trauma, and the role of self-care in practicum experiences. Through examining preservice teacher coursework and interview data, the study examined four main themes. The first being the impact of student stories, recognizing many forms of trauma, teacher burnout, and barriers to self-care. The article demonstrates that student trauma causes profound impacts on preservice teachers secondary trauma as a result of student experiences and stories. Through these relationships teachers may experience burnout or barriers to self-care. From their findings, continued work with resiliency based training prepares teachers for creating a healthier work-life balance.
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TED: How can we support the emotional well being of teachers?
Through this TED Talk, Sydney Jensen explains how teaching has evolved over time.
In this time, expectations have shifted from traditional-teaching practices (lecturing at the front with students listening) to students being expected to learn beyond the lesson from collaboration and communication. Relationships have shifted also, becoming more significant to the learning process as they become more connected through deepened connections. Trauma within the class and the struggles students face impacts teachers as "most teachers (86%) experience some depressive symptoms during the prior week, and one in ten reported clinically significant depressive symptoms." - Sydney Jensen. |
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