Trauma Informed Care as Instructional Innovation

Location: Online

Hosted by: Centre for Teaching Excellence

Facilitators: Rebecca MacAlpine and Greta Kroeker

​In our current political and social landscape, students are hyperaware and hypersensitive to topics that broach themes of violence, oppression, and power. The hyperawareness of students poses an interesting challenge for instructors, as they need to learn to balance student socio-emotional needs with essential content. In this Lunch and Learn, we will explore trauma-informed care, and feminist instructional strategies/pedagogies to begin to empower instructors to find meaningful ways to incorporate hard subjects into the classroom. This session will involve a short presentation on various instructional strategies with ample time to discuss and share our experiences teaching hard subjects in the classroom.