Brad C
Location Gold Coast, Aus
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Brad here, Drama and English teacher from Australia. Here to expand my knowledge!
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G'day. I am a Drama teacher on the Gold Coast, Australia. I love theatre and I love learning more about it. I wish there were more online courses about it - it seems such a neglected field! I am really excited for this one though. I first encountered Meyerhold when I was 16. I was cast as Meyerhold himself in a youth play called 'A Death in Theatre' which went...
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G'day! I'm doing this course because I think it covers an area that is crucial to my practice as a teacher, but also an area that is so easy to neglect when we get busy! I don't want that to happen, so I'm being active!
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One of my favourite things to do is read comics, and I'm 30 haha. I get that this connotation exists in the minds of some people but for me, comics have nothing to do with childhood. In fact, so many of them are dark, gritty, sexual and violent.
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The Lorax. Even as a child I was so interested in the blurred lines between the hero and the "villain". The Once-ler was such a complex character to find in such a simple story!
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I'm a Drama and English teacher from Australia - I am super interested in youth culture so this course jumped out at me!
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I feel confident in identifying some of these signs now... though of course I'm now starting to worry about what I may have missed in the past!
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As is so often the case with these sorts of issues, I think the socio-cultural and biological ones are the ones we have come to expect. It's usually the psychological ones that take us by surprise, in my experience.
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Hi, I'm Brad! I am currently the Head of Drama at a school on the Gold Coast in Australia.
Drama is a subject that is rooted in emotion. Sometimes, without realising it, students allow themselves to become far more vulnerable in the drama classroom. As a drama teacher, I feel it is necessary to recognise that vulnerability and respond accordingly.
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I would say my school supports these:
- includes purposeful processes to help students feel safe all day long - from the moment they arrive at school to the moment they leave
- includes purposeful processes to help students develop their capacities for relationships and for emotional self-regulation over time
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Like any change in a school setting, the hardest part will always be telling staff that they have to do something differently to how they've always done it.
But apart from that hurdle, which we always face, this response seems like it would be very effective. The thing that leapt out at me in this situation was the danger of the broken window, but this...
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I've often seen teachers who respond far too emotionally to outbursts like this, and just continue to take little jabs at the student whilst they are trying to calm down. Even something as simple as rolling one's eyes can spark a reaction that, whilst we may not feel is warranted, is still legitimate. I can't think of an example of this happening myself, but I...
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It's expressed in the quote you chose, by the use of the words 'some' and 'can', rather than 'all' and 'will'. There are other causes, yes, but this course is about complex trauma so the other stuff is not relevant in this context.
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1. the differences between simple trauma and complex trauma, and how these differences can affect students later in life.
2. As always, anything scientific! So the cells and neurons and all that jazz.
3. Giving me an idea of the necessity for different approaches when interacting with such students. -
"SOME students who have experienced complex trauma CAN really struggle to behave safely and well during the school day."
It is examining this particular commonality, it is not suggesting there are no other causes of behavioural problems. It is looking at a potential outcome or consequence of the given situation.
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I think it is really important to remember how essential interactions with children can be. For a young person who doesn't have these relationships with a parent, their interactions with other potential caregivers can be crucial. An interaction that seems almost insignificant to me as a teacher could possibly be the most important interaction that student has...
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As someone who doesn't have kids, I find I rarely consider or think about early childhood as the impact of it. Maybe that has nothing to do with not having kids, but I wonder.
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I don’t think that is assumed at all. The article doesn’t say “if a child misbehaves it’s probably due to complex trauma”. It’s saying that students may have these behaviours as a result, in order to answer the question the title posits: why this? Why now?
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“Educators can invest significant amounts of their time and effort into building relationships to support these students, only to have them sabotage this in ways that can leave educators feeling hurt, ineffective, and confused.”
Oh man, how relatable. And how tragic that this is the point where so many educators seem to say “well I can’t help him if he...
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Hi,
I’m a secondary teacher from QLD. I recently completed my master of education, in which I focused on the effect of the culture of masculinity on the development of teenage boys.
I work with young men from various walks of life and I am keen to improve my understanding of the types of issues that effect them!
