Meeting Dates/Times: JANUARY 17, 24, 32; FEBRUARY 14, 21, 28; MARCH 28; APRIL 4 / 4:30 pm – 7:20 pm
Location/Room: Heesoon’s Zoom Room
Instructor(s)/Email: hbai@sfu.ca

Reflection and self-assessment continue to be essential modes of assessment in a Graduate Diploma in Education course. This will be accomplished through online discussions, reflection tasks, pedagogical readings, inquiry, and the creation of learning portfolios in which teacher-learners examine their growth in relation to the program learning goals and/or program capacities. The format of the fall course will be collaboratively constructed with the instructional team and the goal will be to ensure that it is both meaningful and manageable for everyone.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or assignment accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as soon as possible to ensure that they are eligible and that approved accommodations and services are implemented in a timely fashion.

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Prerequisite:  Participants must be enrolled in a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Studies in Education Program

Course Description:
EDPR 521 Trauma-sensitive Practices for Resilience and Wholistic Well-being acquaints teacher-learners with the societally pervasive phenomenon now identified as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) that can lead to trauma; and, secondly, explores ways to work with and support students and their family. This course will offer teacher-learners the opportunity to a) understand trauma and resilience as a fact of life and b) learn skills, backed by knowledge and understanding, to prevent and sensitively respond to and care for students who experience trauma in the classroom. Through personal narratives, sharing and discussing examples of current practices, theoretical readings, small and whole and group discussions, and portfolio work, teacher-learners in this course will acquire knowledge and skills to support students to learn from life’s adverse conditions, nurture resilience, and to be wholistically well. It is hoped that we will continue to develop a strong learning community that can stimulate, support, challenge, and sustain our own and each other’s learning throughout the two-year Diploma.

Educational Rationale:
Trauma-sensitive Practices for Resilience and Wholistic Well-being (521): While teachers are not counsellors, and the teacher’s role is to teach, not to treat trauma, given the prevalence of trauma amongst students and, also, the fundamentally integrated nature of learning, our teachers are to be encouraged to practice trauma-sensitive pedagogy. As well, arguably, trauma-sensitive pedagogy is by and large a wholesome and well-being-promoting pedagogy for all youths. Trauma-sensitive pedagogy is based on the idea that all humans thrive and mature in confidence and resilience through being sensitively responded to and cared for, and through receiving optimal protection. Relational safety and support create personal empowerment and in turn leads to building strong relational bonds with others, which is the best protection against trauma. This course is designed to enable teacher-learners to acquire theoretical understanding of trauma-informed teaching practice, engage in trauma-sensitive pedagogical practices, share personal learnings, and expand pedagogical understanding and practice

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

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