Creating Trauma Informed Instruction-Schools The Heart of Teaching and Learning
A Presentation by Dr. Lori Desautels- Marian University
Preview: Schools as Ecological Systems
Students who attend school from kindergarten through secondary school typically spend more than 13,000 hours of their developing brain’s time in the presence of teachers.
Their brains are highly susceptible to environmental influences – social, physical, cognitive, and emotional. And, more important, their brains will be altered by the experiences they have in school.
(Eric Jensen, Teaching With the Brain in Mind, 2nd Edition, 2005)
