Title: FLO MicroCourse: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Your Syllabus

The syllabus (or course outline) is often the first point of contact learners have with their instructor and the course content. By applying trauma-informed principles, syllabi can provide the opportunity for educators to begin relationship-building with learners as well as offer suggestions and information vital to their success.

This FLO MicroCourse consists of required (and recommended) readings, video lectures from your instructor and daily forum posts. The course will culminate with a final assignment where the participants will interrogate and edit a syllabus (ideally one from a course they teach) and provide and receive feedback from their participant peers. The time commitment for this course is 2-3 hours per day. We have two optional synchronous sessions planned that we encourage participants to attend:

- Session 1: October 30, 2023, 5:00–6:00 p.m. PT
- Session 2: November 3, 2023, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. PT

These sessions will be recorded and shared with participants in the course.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will:

- Explore a variety of areas within a syllabus that may be suitable for using a trauma-informed approach
- Assess and amend their own syllabus to align with trauma-informed perspectives
- Provide and receive feedback on their own and other participants’ syllabi

Category: FLO MicroCourses — FLO MicroCourses

Role: Member — Members generally have less privileges within a course.

GENERAL INFORMATION
  Welcome to the course
  Welcome Video
  Course Guidelines
  Assumptions that ground my TI pedagogy
  Trauma-Informed Care principles
  Resource Depository
  TIPSE - Trauma-Informed Post-Secondary Education
  Sample syllabus (not trauma-informed)
  Boundaries
Monday October 30: Introductions and review of TIP
  Today's instructions and Zoom link
  Trauma-Informed Teaching & Learning Principles by Janice Carello, PhD, LMSW
  Trauma-informed Pedagogy: What it is and how it can help now.
  Mays Imad: Pedagogy of Healing: Bearing Witness to Trauma and Resilience
  Introductions and TI Principles
  Optional Viewing: Mays Imad: Trauma Informed Teaching & Learning (for teachers)
  Recording of Day 1 Synchronous Session
Tuesday October 31: Interrogating our Syllabus (for cruelty), Part 1. "Because I said so"
  Today's Instructions
  Toward a Cruelty-Free Syllabus - Matthew Cheney - Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast
  Optional reading & activity: Creating Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning Environments: Self-Assessment Questions for Educators
  Questions about interrogating your syllabus. OPTIONAL
Wednesday November 1: Interrogating our Syllabus Part 2: An Opportunity for Connection
  Today's instructions
  Trauma informed syllabus - an example.
  Optional Reading: Cruelty-Free Syllabi - blog post
  Sharing our TI syllabus (a work in progress) for feedback
Thursday, November 2: Sharing our TI syllabi (work in progress) and providing feedback
  Today's Instructions
  Trauma informed syllabus - another example. Jesse Strommel
Friday November 3: Barriers to TI teaching: Personal and Institutional
  Today's instructions and Zoom link
  Barriers to TI teaching
  Friday's synchronous meeting PPT
  Recording of Synchronous Session on Friday, Nov 3rd.