Last modified: 31 Jul 2024 09:46
This module is offered to all who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills in trauma-informed educational practices. This includes specifically classroom teachers, existing principal teachers, guidance teachers, faculty heads and senior managers within schools as well as community educationalists.
The module covers aspects of all areas below:
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course will encourage you to think about your own knowledge in relation to trauma-informed practices within your own educational setting. It will help you to develop your knowledge of child and adult safeguarding processes, trauma-informed values and ethos, trauma-informed pedagogies, and trauma-informed curricular content.
It will give you opportunities to critically reflect on your own practice and develop targets for improving your practice with regard to trauma-informed education. The course will focus on critical, contrasting perspectives on the definitions of trauma and look at the socio-economic, political and medical influences on trauma-informed education. Lastly, it will allow you to think about other agencies which can support you to develop trauma-informed practices in your own setting.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Weeks | 39 | Feedback Weeks | 42 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback |
Word Count | 6000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | To critically analyse conflicting definitions of trauma |
| Factual | Understand | To critically engage with trauma-informed policy and academic literature |
| Procedural | Apply | To develop an understanding of pedagogical approaches with regard to trauma-informed practice |
| Reflection | Evaluate | To evaluate your own teaching/educational practice in light of trauma-informed research |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Weeks | 28 | Feedback Weeks | 31 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback which will contain strengths and next steps (to inform summative assessment) |
Word Count | 2000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | To critically analyse conflicting definitions of trauma |
| Factual | Understand | To critically engage with trauma-informed policy and academic literature |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Weeks | 32 | Feedback Weeks | 35 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback which will contain strengths and next steps (to inform summative assessment) |
Word Count | 1000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Factual | Understand | To critically engage with trauma-informed policy and academic literature |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 24 | Feedback Weeks | 27 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback |
Word Count | 6000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Factual | Understand | To critically engage with trauma-informed policy and academic literature |
| Conceptual | Analyse | To critically analyse conflicting definitions of trauma |
| Reflection | Evaluate | To evaluate your own teaching/educational practice in light of trauma-informed research |
| Procedural | Apply | To develop an understanding of pedagogical approaches with regard to trauma-informed practice |
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