Session 11 - -Review + Trauma-Sensitive Schools

Week Ten

Activator: Mindfulness Focusing (Session 10 review): Visualization or (optional)   Ten Ways to Look at a Tree

On a slip of paper, write down a series of words that describe how you feel after engaging in the mindfulness opening to our class.

(Optional future reading: "Mindfulness in High School" from Edutopia)

Review of our Course to Date

Please open up your Blackboard portal so you can call up any of the assignments you've submitted so far in the course.

1. What's the experience been like to observe and teacher real students? Let's chat -- Observations and Lesson Plans --->>> Teaching

Activity: 3-2-1 Bridge -- Before and After our discussion

2. Daniels & Zemelman -- Teachers Teaching Teachers Literacy assignment -- Let's review the assignment sheet together and see what it is that you'll be asked to teach during our last class on Monday, July 29.

Subjects Matter 

Tools for Thinking: Reading Strategies across the Curriculum

3. Cooperative Learning Strategies 

Freewriting: What cooperative learning strategies did you use as you implemented your lesson plans in front of real students? What do you now wish that you had incorporated that you'll use in the future? Please write to share.

4. Gradual Release of Responsibility: Talk out the decisions you made to come to the final draft of the lesson.



5. UbD Essentials: What is your impression the Understanding by Design framework? What parts made sense to you? What parts felt onerous or excessive?

6. Create to Learn: How does an emphasis on digital literacy enhance student engagement and learning? In what ways were you successful with your Create to Learn lesson? What goals have you set to continue to evolve as a digital literacy educator?

7. Trauma Sensitive Schools -- Review these sources.

Handout --Trauma Related Behaviors in Children and Adolescence

Article -- "Why Schools Need to be Trauma Informed"

Restorative Training: A Guide for Educators

ACE Study: A tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood

Removed on Vimeo

Coaching Children in Handling Everyday Conflicts

PBIS

8. Chalk and Wire: Tutorial from Scott Badger from RIC Tech Services