{"id":2129,"date":"2019-04-22T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2019-04-22T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:30:33","slug":"resilient-adj-able-to-withstand-or-recover-quickly-from-difficult-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2019\/04\/resilient-adj-able-to-withstand-or-recover-quickly-from-difficult-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Resilient (adj): able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you think of when you hear the word “home<\/strong>“?\"\"<\/p>\n

Your dog? Your parents? Your siblings? The smell of clean sheets? A homemade meal?<\/p>\n

If this is the case, you are lucky<\/strong>. Not all children come from homes such as these, and we’re all going to have them in our classrooms. We, as teachers, need to create safe<\/strong> spaces for these children and make them “keep their heads in the game” at school. But how do we do this?<\/p>\n

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Resilience<\/strong>. The difference between these students being successful, and not.\"\"<\/p>\n

In the book\u00a0Fostering Resilient Learners<\/em> by Kristin Souers and Pete Hall, we are brought into the lives of children with rough home lives, and learn how to create a trauma-sensitive<\/strong> classroom.<\/p>\n

“…what happens outside school can have a profound effect on what happens in school,” (Souers, 2016).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So much is going on in a student’s life outside<\/strong> of school in today’s society. This is why it is so important to encourage our students to be resilient science learners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

How<\/strong> do we do this?\"\"<\/p>\n

“We must validate and reconcile ourselves to our trauma history, yet we needn’t be governed by it,” (Souers, 2016).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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