Creating a Trauma Sensitive Classroom Activity
Creating a Trauma Sensitive Classroom
ASCD Quick Reference Guide - Kristin Souers and Pete Hall
“It’s our responsibility as professionals and caregivers to provide a safe, predictable, setting for children to be, learn, and thrive. A trauma-sensitive environment – also referred to as a positive learning environment – is a classroom, school, nook, or any other teaching location in which each and every student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.”
How would you describe?
| Cement Shoes | Stay out of the Tornado |
| Upstairs/Downstairs Brain | Remember Influence |
| Find a Window | Grace vs Blame |
| Give Yourself a Cookie | Forever Changed, Not Forever Damaged? |
Remember to Practice Self-Care:
“You’ve got to take care of number 1 if you’re going to be of any value to numbers 2, 3, and 617.” (Souers with Hall, 2016, p. 197)
| Health: Select at least three days this week to exercise for ______ minutes. Check the box after the exercise is complete. | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
| Love: Give yourself a “cookie” this week. Describe what you did to take care of yourself. What did you do just for you? | ||||||||
| Competence: Try something new this week. Describe how you stepped out of your comfort zone. Record your emotions before, during, and after the experience. | ||||||||
| Gratitude: Journal your gratitude about something or someone each day. Describe what you’re grateful for and how you demonstrated that thankfulness. | Monday | |||||||
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Also check out: Love Languages: https://www.5lovelanguages.com/