Facilitator: Candy Gonzalez
This Micro-Certification Training is designed for Arts Educators required to take relevant coursework for renewal of their teaching certificate and enhance their teaching practice. Each 15-hour course. (9 hours in class matched with 6 hours of independent creative work) yields 1 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credit.
The training will provide an introduction to trauma-informed practices as they relate specifically to arts educators, while modeling inquiry-based, experiential, and collaborative learning strategies. The training will begin with a foundation in stress, trauma, and its potential impact on individuals. Then, we will explore how stress and trauma connect to some key areas of brain theory that demonstrate when the brain is – and isn’t – primed to learn, and what they can do as facilitators to help students engage, retain, and apply learning. We will connect the five basic needs often impacted by trauma to how an art form can both challenge and grow these areas for students. Finally, we will consider how social dynamics (can trigger fight-flight-freeze response, and what participants can do in curriculum structures and facilitation practices to account for these dynamics and create a safe space for all.
This training is arts standards aligned and provides a range of modality of resources that showcase a diversity of perspectives. Time to process, question, and brainstorm using sample tools, reflective free-writes and small group discussion will be threaded throughout the presentation to help arts educators connect these behavioral theories to their arts educator practice.