Quick Reads
Quick guide for emergency pivots: https://instructionalcontinuity.georgetown.edu/tools-and-techniques/
Dealing with the Unexpected: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/dealing-with-the-unexpected/
Keeping Stress from Evolving into Distress: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/keeping-stress-from-evolving-into-distress/
Advice in helping students thriving in a time of crisis https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/06/03/seven-recommendations-helping-students-thrive-times-trauma
Teaching in Times of Crisis: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/crisis/
One-pager: Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning Online: Principles & Practices During a Global Health Crisis
Op Ed: Trauma-Informed Online Teaching: Essential for the Coming Academic Year
Blog post with one example of implementing trauma-informed teaching: Fostering a spirit of collaboration with Social Work Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Imad, M. (2020). Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved March 2021 from https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/06/03/seven-recommendations-helping-students-thrive-times-trauma
Distilling course content down to essentials: https://activelearningps.com/2018/02/15/getting-rid-of-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink/.
Planning for instructional continuity: https://activelearningps.com/2020/03/09/simulating-for-instructional-continuity/.
Additional Trauma informed teaching resources: https://traumainformedteaching.blog/resources/
Peer Reviewed Publications on Trauma and Learning
Preparing Trauma-Sensitive Teachers: Strategies for Teacher Educators.
C Honsinger, MH Brown – Teacher Educators’ Journal, 2019 – ERIC
Many children who attend school have or will experience some type of trauma that may
impact cognition, behavior, and relationships (Van Der Kolk, 2014). The result of these
adverse experiences is often diminished concentration, memory, organization, and …
Risky teaching: developing a trauma-informed pedagogy for higher education
N Harrison, J Burke, I Clarke – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020 – Taylor & Francis
This paper presents the results of a three-year study of the impacts of teaching about the
experiences of trauma on students studying to become teachers. The project’s overarching
objective is to develop an effective trauma-informed pedagogy that can support students …
Webinar# 2: Trauma-informed teaching & learning (TITL) online (Adobe Connect version)
JC Baez, MS Marquart – 2020 – academiccommons.columbia.edu
• Provide content warnings and note the difficult crisis we are all in together• Ask students what they find to be difficult: listen and empathize• Acknowledge that feelings of beingoverwhelmed and helplessness (and others) may arise, note that seeing other students’ …
This second webinar covered Trauma-informed teaching & learning (TITL) online: The principles of TITL, practical ways to apply them online, and self-care for instructors and students. It was held in Adobe Connect on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020, 1:00-2:00pm ET. The recording is available on the Columbia Social Work YouTube channel, at https://www.youtube.com/user/columbiassw. The direct link to the recording is https://youtu.be/Tm4JGtBEzR8.
Trauma-informed Teaching and Learning: Principles, Practices, and Grading in Online Courses–# SWDE2021
JC Baez, J Carello, MS Marquart – 2021 – academiccommons.columbia.edu
• To be trauma-informed in social work education:–a) to understand the ways in which violence, victimization, and other forms of trauma can impact all members of the campus
Marquart, M., Carello, J., & Báez, J. C. (2020, July 3). Trauma-Informed Online Teaching: Essential for the Coming Academic Year. The New Social Worker. https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/education–credentials/trauma-informed-online-teaching-essential-comingacademic-year/
Carello, J., Butler, L. (2015). Practicing What We Teach: Trauma-Informed Educational Practice. Journal of Teaching in Social Work. 35, 262-278. Carello, J. (2020). Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning Principles. Retrieved Aug 2020 from https://traumainformedteachingblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/titl-general-principles-3.20.pdf
