When we talk about student-centered teaching, we often forget to look at our students and the circumstances that influence their learning. In this seminar, we will connect examining students’ large group identities and individual challenges with brain-based learning and trauma and resilience research. As we respond to deepening our understanding of how systemic oppressions can undermine and disrupt successful learning, we will practice facilitation skills, strengthen our working memories, and learn practical activities to establish stability, increase capacity, become appropriately flexible, and create positive communities for our students while accelerating their critical thinking development and academic success.

Facilitated by TLC Director Gina Rae Foster, Practical Teaching for Resilient Learning will draw on her training in trauma and resiliency studies and practice as well as her work with students and survivors in public education and across cultures and international communities. Participants will be asked to reflect on readings, discussions, and their own teaching and social justice work as they develop individual teaching and learning projects that support enhanced resiliency and capacity for their students.

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