Miranda Fedock's TLC Thread on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

Posted on behalf of Teaching and Learning Center Fellow Miranda Fedock on October 3, 2020, by The Graduate Center's TLC, this Twitter thread provided commentary and guidance on the pressing importance of trauma-informed pedagogy during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Matthew K. Golds Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, we wanted to document the moment of crisis response with a critical approach to educational technology.

The Teaching and Learning Center (The Graduate Center)

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

Twitter

October 3, 2020

Creative Commons Attribution

English

https://twitter.com/GCTLC/status/1323609995548758019

In the midst of this extra-stressful week in this difficult month during this traumatic year, we’ll be sharing a series of threads on the relationship of trauma to our teaching/learning, intended for CUNY educators & GC students. We hope these help you learn more about this relationship, & take care of yourself and those around you. For many CUNY educators, our worlds broke open in March, and then again…and then again. We may have felt fearful, helpless, hopeless. Many of us still do, even as we go about our research and teaching. This thread is about the relationship of trauma to our teaching. 2020’s crises have been repeatedly traumatic: experiences that overwhelm our ability to cope, and change how we perceive safety and danger. Though traumatic events happened in the past, they stamp themselves onto our minds and bodies, shaping our everyday lives.