Trauma Informed Legal Education: Pulling Practical Suggestions for Classroom Adaptations out of the Hard Science of Trauma
Start Date
30-5-2024 9:00 AM
End Date
30-5-2024 10:30 AM
Document Type
Presentation
Description
Incorporating trauma awareness into legal pedagogy is an overall strategy to make legal education accessible to everyone in the room. Nevertheless, there are those who say that adapting a classroom to be “trauma informed” is just coddling students. This program responds to this by digging into the physiological changes in the brain wrought by trauma, and their effect on learning. We start with the theory behind trauma informed education, jump in to some interactive learning about the neuroscience of trauma and learning, and come out the other side with concrete suggestions for being more trauma-informed in the classroom.
Speaker Bio
Brian has been working in law libraries since starting as an acquisitions clerk at the New England School of Law in 1990. He received an MLS from Simmons College in 1995, and began working as a reference librarian at Suffolk University Law School in 2000. He quickly developed a love of teaching, which he has had the opportunity to embrace through countless semesters teaching first year legal research, advanced legal research, and transactional legal research, as well as an untold number of Westlaw, Lexis and Bloomberg trainings, certification classes and guest lectures. He has written and presented on different aspects of teaching, and is co-author of the forthcoming Cuing Safety in the Law School Classroom: Using a Polyvagal Theory Framework in Support of Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices.
Trauma Informed Legal Education: Pulling Practical Suggestions for Classroom Adaptations out of the Hard Science of Trauma
Incorporating trauma awareness into legal pedagogy is an overall strategy to make legal education accessible to everyone in the room. Nevertheless, there are those who say that adapting a classroom to be “trauma informed” is just coddling students. This program responds to this by digging into the physiological changes in the brain wrought by trauma, and their effect on learning. We start with the theory behind trauma informed education, jump in to some interactive learning about the neuroscience of trauma and learning, and come out the other side with concrete suggestions for being more trauma-informed in the classroom.