Addressing Trauma Using Affective and Cognitive Skills Resources and Standards
Resources and Standards
RESOURCES
This is a list of organizations, websites, articles and other materials that may be helpful to teachers in developing the lesson, or for students as they are researching.
POV: QUEST
The film's official POV site includes a discussion guide with additional activity ideas, steps to borrow the DVD from the POV Lending Library and other resources.
POV: Media Literacy Questions for Analyzing POV Films
This list of questions provides a useful starting point for leading rich discussions that challenge students to think critically about documentaries.
POV: Media Literacy Questions for Analyzing POV Films
This list of questions provides a useful starting point for leading rich discussions that challenge students to think critically about documentaries.
Common Responses to Trauma--and Coping Strategies
This pamphlet offers helpful guidance on recognizing the signs of trauma, plus general interventions.
The Foundation for Art & Healing
The foundation's website features personal stories about how art was combined with medicine/psychological care to help people heal.
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
This organization's website provides research reports and research-based recommendations for healing trauma. For example, this document (PDF) offers recommendations that deal specifically with use of creative art.
Psychology Today: "Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy"
An easy-to-read, short Psychology Today article by Cathy Malchiodi describes the use of art to help people heal from trauma.
STANDARDS
W.9-10.2d Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
W11-12.2d Use precise language, domain-specific vocabulary and techniques such as metaphor, simile and analogy to manage the complexity of the topic.
W.9-10.4, 11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL.11-12.2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.
Content Knowledge: a compilation of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 curriculum by McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning).
Language Arts, Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
Language Arts, Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.
Language Arts, Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.
Language Arts, Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
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