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Teaching from a trauma-informed perspective is to understand the ways in which violence, victimization, and other traumatic experiences may have impacted students’ lives and to apply that understanding to course design and delivery so that they accommodate trauma survivors’ needs and are consonant with healing and recovery (Butler, Critelli, & Rinfrette, 2011; Harris & Fallot, 2001; N. J. Smyth, 2008).
Importantly, trauma may explain a response. Trauma does not excuse an inappropriate response.
Trauma-informed teaching and learning relies on five principles.
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