Know Me To Teach Me by Louise Michelle Bombèr ISBN 9781903269404, 1903269407 instant download

Know Me To Teach Me by Louise Michelle Bombèr ISBN 9781903269404, 1903269407 instant download

Now is the time to update our school policies and practices. With exclusion rates soaring in recent years, we can no longer overlook everything that has been learnt about the impact of what are known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (Felitti & Anda 1998) on children's minds and bodies, and how the nervous system functions best. We know that relationships are essential for recovery and for settling to learn: but out UK educational practices are still geared to withdrawing relationship when times get tough, leading to escalation of challenging behaviour and further rejection and isolation for already traumatised children and young people. This has to stop.

Many educators are now recognising how significant alternative ways of thinking in the classroom are for optimising engagement and learning. Louise explores how to facilitate quality moments of relationship with children and young people that genuinely reach them, where they are, recognising the impact of trauma on their emotional state, mental functioning and their ability, or lack of it, to trust the adults. She helps identify the best way to work so that we can teach curriculum as well as healthy behaviours, differentiating for discipline in the true meaning of the word. Honouring biology and building on Dr Bruce Perry's (2006) neurosequential models, Louise provides numerous thoughtful and creative ways of being and doing for those wanting to ensure school is fully inclusive.