Title: Self-Care Scenario
Course: FLO Course: Trauma-Informed Teaching OER (Sept 2021) > Section: Week 1: Starting with Self

WEEK ONE DISCUSSION

Please read the following scenario and write a 150-250 word response. How might you respond to this student in a way that is empathetic yet attends to your own need for self care? What kinds of boundaries would you set with this student, and how would you set them? Why do you think these boundaries would help with your own self care?

SCENARIO: It is week three of the semester. It has become clear to you that one of your students is unprepared for the class—they are struggling with the material and seem to have significant knowledge gaps that are not expected at this level. The student is upset and asks to speak to you after class privately. They say, “I don’t know how to do this stuff. No one taught me any of this in high school and I feel really lost. Can you help me get caught up with the stuff I don’t understand?” You realize that you would essentially need to act as a tutor for this student and use all your available office hours teaching them the foundations of the subject and then re-teaching the material you’ve been covering for the last three weeks.

Make a forum post for your response. Engage with any posts provided by your peers with additional insights, encouragements, and new questions to help them continue in their processing.

Note: forum posts can be uploaded PDFs or word documents, written descriptions, videos (using Kaltura, uploaded to Screencast-o-matic, etc.), or audio clips that convey your response to the scenario.