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Webinar Description
How is trauma relevant in your work as educators and employees working with learners? What is trauma-informed education and why is it important in your role as educators and employees? What are the ways you can build trauma-informed education into learning spaces?
This webinar will provide practical pedagogical strategies for educators and employees looking to enhance their practices with adult learners in post-secondary education settings. The presenter will draw from a community-driven research project and a recently developed Promising Practices Manual.
The webinar will highlight the research findings, the need for trauma informed education from an EDI lens in post-secondary settings and will share practical pedological strategies from the framework.
Areas to be covered include:
Various macro level strategies will be shared recognizing the importance of embedding trauma-informed practices into an educational organization’s culture.
Webinar Type: Teaching Best Practices
Categories: Classroom Management, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Health/Mental Health, Instructional Design, Lesson Planning/Ideas, Social Justice
Teaching Sectors: Adult ESL (credit), College/University (EAP), Continuing Education/Adult ESL (non-credit), LINC
OSLT/ELT, Program administrators, Self-employed, TESL trainers
Participant Level: All levels
About the Presenter
Nicole Johnson (she/her) has been a professor in the Social Service Worker Program at Sheridan College for 14 years. She holds a Masters in Education and has 20 years of experience in the anti-violence sector. As a curriculum developer and researcher, she has developed a passion for trauma-informed education supporting building safer, more inclusive, and harm-reducing spaces for learners. Nicole was the principal researcher on a Sheridan-funded research project entitled Developing a Trauma-Informed Practice Framework and recently co-authored a Promising Practices Manual which is being launched for 2023.
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