Pedagogy & Personal Growth

Trauma-sensitive teaching for migrant children

Toolkit for teachers

Dear colleague,

The world keeps changing and people are migrating on a daily basis. Teaching with an open heart for the mixed feeling, home sickness and other emotional wounds of the child will help you to help the child feel at home in his new place.

As a Dutch pedagogical counselor for teachers and author of Teaching Refugee Children I have prepared a Toolkit for teaching trauma-sensitively to newcomers. The Kit will be tailor-made for your school.

The toolkit consists of:

1. Online pedagogical Q&A

Teachers, school leaders and healthcare workers can freely ask me questions about teaching refugee children, whether or not from Ukraine. Children from Syria and Afghanistan can also feel touched by the reception of Ukrainian students in the classroom. You can send in your questions prior to the consultation.

Please send me an e-mail to set up a Q&A for your school.

2. Free: Mindfulness exercises for children

Mindfulness supports the children to find moments of relaxation. It helps them to unwind and gently regulate their emotions.

Mindfulness in the Classroom (in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Dutch and Arabic)

3. Book Teaching Refugee Children

In Teaching Refugee Children I take the teacher on a journey in trauma-sensitive teaching.

You will find:

- Practical exercises and worksheets for self-care

- How to see and deal with trauma in the classroom

- 25 Tools for trauma-sensitive teaching

- Exercises for group dynamics

- Tips from children and colleagues

- 3 Universal values for a warm pedagogical climate

- 22 Mindfulness exercises for newcomers

With the seven steps of the psychological growth model The Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell) you learn to better understand yourself and your students.

Order on Amazon.

4. E-learning Trauma-sensitive teaching

You take good care of your pupils but how do you take care of yourself? Because you are the key, the e-learning starts with your practical self-care. You will then receive tools for trauma-sensitive teaching and suggestions from newcomers and from your colleagues. So that you can guide children with confidence in their new future in your country.

5. Individual teacher counseling

Teachers are having questions about self-care, trauma-sensitive teaching, processing their own emotions and opinions & feeling and setting your limits. In counseling we will offer practical self-insight and tools that the teacher can use directly in the classroom.

6. (Online) Seminar Trauma-sensitive teaching for newcomers

Based on the current requests for help from teachers and school leaders, we work on self-insight and practical tools for trauma-sensitive teaching in approximately 2.5 hours. A seminar will be tailor-made for the needs of your school.

Biography

Hélène van Oudheusden is a Dutch pedagogical & personal counselor for teachers for migrant children and an expert in on the ground refugee reception in Greece. She offers seminars on trauma-sensitive teaching and previously organized study visits for teachers to Lesvos, Greece. Hélène works in several countries to support teachers in personal growth. Author of Teaching Refugee Children.

Publications

Empower Yourself at Work

Teaching Refugee Children (also in German and in Dutch)

Connecting values, multicultural guidance in primary education (sold out)

Contact

Would you like to discuss possibilities on support for your teachers? Please feel free to contact me for an introductory online meeting.