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    Emotionally Responsive Teaching
    Expanding Trauma-Informed Practice with Young Children

    Travis Wright (Author)

    9780807768341

    Paperback / softback, published 28 April 2023

    224 pages
    22 x 16.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.272 kg

    Learn how to navigate the challenging terrain of connecting with a child who is deeply afraid, angry, and/or sad. Framing this work as emotionally responsive teaching (ERT), this book expands current conceptualizations of trauma-informed practice to encompass more broadly the relational demands of supporting young children with challenging life circumstances. The author accomplishes this by (1) arguing that predominant discussions of trauma fail to consider the ways that traumatic responses may facilitate both risk and resilience in children's lives, (2) describing the impact of traumatic experiences and exposure to chronic stress on children's development, (3) articulating a framework for ERT, and (4) providing readers with applied strategies for practicing ERT in their classrooms. Throughout, readers are encouraged to transform the systems of oppression that are being manifested through children's struggles in the classroom.

    Book Features:

    • Provides models that guide teachers through the nuanced and sometimes overwhelming interactions they may have with children experiencing trauma.
    • Shares the author's own challenges and triumphs through case studies of pre-K–3rd grade classrooms to illustrate the process of emotionally responsive teaching.
    • Builds on research from the fields of education, psychology, and counseling.
    • Integrates current work on trauma-informed practice with the paradigm of culturally responsive pedagogy by framing trauma as often rooted in systems of inequity and oppression.

    • Contents
    • Foreword Mary Benson McMullen ix
    • Acknowledgments and Dedication  
      xi
    • Introduction  
      1
    • 1.  
      Teaching Children With Messy Lives  
      7
    • Developing a Shared Perspective  
      8
    • Messy Lives as a Context for Development  
      11
    • Trauma Is the Symptom, Not the Problem  
      14
    • A Conceptual Framework for Thinking More Deeply  
      16
    • Summary  
      21
    • 2.  
      Essential Elements of an Emotionally Responsive Teaching Approach  
      23
    • Defining Emotionally Responsive Teaching  
      24
    • The Essence of Emotionally Responsive Teaching  
      30
    • Development and Emotionally Responsive Teaching  
      33
    • The Aims of Emotionally Responsive Teaching  
      37
    • The Emotionally Responsive Ethic  
      39
    • Summary  
      40
    • 3.  
      Teaching From Hope Versus Teaching From Fear  
      43
    • Self-Fulfilling Expectations  
      43
    • Teaching in Treacherous Times  
      46
    • We All Teach Our Own Story  
      57
    • Summary  
      66
    • 4.  
      Reframing Resilience for Children With Messy Lives  
      69
    • I Keep Me Safe  
      70
    • Development Along Alternative Pathways  
      71
    • A Developmental Pathways Approach  
      74
    • Reframing Resilience  
      79
    • Moving Forward  
      87
    • Summary  
      88
    • 5.  
      Redefining Trauma: The Embodied Experience of Threat  
      91
    • Sinking in the Pool  
      91
    • The Embodied Experience of Threat  
      95
    • The Stress Response System  
      100
    • Differentiating Brief Stress, Adversity, Toxic Stress, and Trauma  
      107
    • Summary  
      110
    • 6.  
      Too Scared to Learn: The Impact of Fear on Development and Learning  
      111
    • A Shift in Worldview  
      112
    • Adversity and Learning  
      118
    • Summary  
      137
    • 7.  
      Cultivating Emotionally Responsive Teaching  
      139
    • The Anchors of Emotionally Responsive Teaching  
      140
    • Summary  
      168
    • 8.  
      The Courage to Care  
      171
    • All Children Benefit From Emotionally Responsive Teaching  
      172
    • Sustaining the Emotionally Responsive Teacher  
      176
    • Summary  
      185
    • References  
      187
    • Index  
      199
    • About the Author  
      207
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