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Trauma-Informed Teaching: Teaching About Sexual Assault in the 6-12 Classroom ● USHMM’s “Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust” are a great place to start ○ Avoid simple answers to complex questions ○ Strive for precision of language ○ Avoid comparisons of pain ○ Translate statistics into people ○ Make responsible methodological decisions ● In a typical classroom you may not have students who have survivors of modern genocides ○ Prevalence of sexual assault: it is highly likely you will have students who have been sexually assaulted (primary trauma) ■ 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys are sexually assaulted by an adult before age 18. Trauma-Informed Teaching: Teaching About Sexual Assault in the 6-12 Classroom Trauma-informed: ● Offering choice ● Offering control ○ Control = “I know what’s coming next” ● Encouraging collaboration image: Flaticon.com Inquiry_5_Slides-Trauma_Informed_Teaching