EEDUC 5256Impact of Trauma on Learning

Catalog

This course will examine the impact of traumatic experience on student learning (both academic and social/emotional) and provide a structured approach to individual and school-wide interventions. The biological, environmental, and socio-cultural aspects of traumatic experience will be analyzed. School-wide and student-specific intervention strategies will be presented, and participants will analyze the effects of their work with students impacted by traumatic experience on their own well-being (secondary trauma).