Creating Safe Classrooms for Trauma-Affected Students

Third-party on-site course

Participants will enhance their abilities to support trauma-affected children. They learned about the impact of trauma and stress on children and gained practical tools for creating a trauma-informed, strength-based classroom. Additionally, participant will develope a deeper understanding of character strengths and how to nurture them.

Last updated: 02.03.2025

Next upcoming session:

19.05.2025 - 24.05.2025

Ireland , Dublin

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Description

This course is available in: Dublin, Helsinki
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How can a trauma-affected child be taken into account at school? What can an individual do? In recent years, many educators have been thinking about how to support trauma-affected children and young people. In this course, you will get concrete tools on how to face these students and strengthen them. School plays a significant role in the survival of a traumatized child. School provides a safe place where children can live their normal everyday lives with other children and young people. However, encountering a traumatized child evokes strong emotions in adults, you may feel helpless and insecure when dealing with trauma-affected students. In this course, you will strengthen your professional competencies to work with these students. Also, it is important for you to take care of yourself and strengthen the positive and joyful things that exist in your life. Therefore, the course also aims to strengthen the sense of hope and gratitude. By the end of the week, you will learn what crises and traumas mean, how trauma and stress affect a child, and how to deal with traumatized children and young people. The course focuses on how to create a trauma-informed strenght-based classroom and what it means to be a safe teacher. Trauma-informed approaches can be enhanced by focusing on identifying and cultivating students’ strengths. By the end of the course, you’ll learn what the character strengths are, and how to recognize, nurture, and use them to make students more resilient! In this course, you will take away concrete ways and practical tools to create a classroom that supports he...read more.

Learning objectives

The course will help the participants to:

Gain knowledge about types of trauma and the impact of trauma;
Know the key factors of a trauma-informed classroom;
Learn practical strategies for creating a supportive learning environment including those who come from the most complex backgrounds;
Get ideas and strategies to create classroom environments where pupils can heal and grow;
Feel more confident in working with trauma-affected children.

Methodology & assessment

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✨ maintain a minimum average review score of 9/10
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Certification details

Course enrolment will guarantee you:

Seamless Administration: We provide assistance and guidance to our participants throughout every step of the project: from the grant application to the final documents.
Post-Course Training: 100€ voucher on 40+ online courses
360° experience: from coffee breaks to cultural visits
Certification support:
- 🗎 Certificate of Attendance
- 🗎 Europass Mobility Certificate
- 🗎 Learning Agreement

To make your participation accessible, our courses are designed to allow you to request 8 days of individual support for your subsistence costs. This includes 6 days for the course and an additional 2 days for travel.

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Pricing, packages and other information

Price:

580

Euro

Additional information

Language:

English
Target audience ISCED:

Primary education (ISCED 1)

Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)

Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
Target audience type:

Teacher

Head Teacher / Principal

Pedagogical Adviser
Learning time:

25 hours or more