Title: Week 2: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Practice
Course: FLO Course: Trauma-Informed Teaching OER (Sept 2021)

The goal for Week 2 is to explore trauma-informed strategies and integrate them into your practice. This week's topics include:

- Teaching Strategies
- How to Create a Welcoming Environment
- Reflections and Take-Aways

Again, this week is self-paced. You can engage with the content and post to the Discussion Forum at your convenience, ideally before the end of Week 2 to get the most out the course.

The tasks for this week include:

Engage with the materials in the course.

- Engage with the materials in the course
- Comment on a scenario of student disclosure (this will be in the Discussion forum)
- Trauma-Informed Teaching Approach Implementation plan (assignment that you will post to the Assignment Dropbox)
- Synchronous session on (insert date)  This session will be recorded and available in the course if you can't make the live session.
- Final Thoughts/Reflections in the Discussion forum and respond to at least one other person.

You will find all of the materials and the respective discussion forums and assignment dropbox under this topic, Week 2: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Practice.

For simplicity sake, we will also add all of the resources we use or quote from under the Resources tab.

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ACQUIRE: Pick at least one resource or activity per topic to explore. Feel free to explore as many as your time allows.

TOPIC #1: Teaching Strategies

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TOPIC #2: How to Create a Welcoming Environment

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ACTION: Put your new learning into action by completing this action item.

Please read the following scenario and write a paragraph (150-200 words) about how you would deal with the situation in a trauma-informed way. Explain how the actions you would take are influenced by the readings, discussion, and videos for this course.

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ASSIGNMENT: This assignment aims to help you identify the necessary elements to implementing a trauma-informed teaching approach. They will be graded as either complete or incomplete, essentially if you do the assignment it is considered complete. We will read all of the trauma-informed implementation plans submitted by (insert date) and may add clarifying questions or feedback where appropriate.

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ADIEU: Leave final comments/thoughts for your fellow participants, the facilitators, or yourself by sharing in this forum.