This week’s topics
Establishing Safe Learning Climates
- Psychological safety
- Establishing classroom ground rules
- Trauma-informed safeguarding
- Addressing discrimination and microaggressions
- Education Now | Navigating Trauma — for Teachers and Learners
- What Is Psychological Safety?
- Tackling Unhealed Trauma in Communities and Schools | Education Now
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Analyse how to establish a safe and inclusive learning environment.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse how to establish a safe and inclusive learning environment.
Study materials
Videos
- Education Now | Navigating Trauma — for Teachers and Learners · YouTube · Harvard Graduate School of Education · 32 min · for registered students
- What Is Psychological Safety? · YouTube · Harvard Business Review · 8 min · for registered students
- Tackling Unhealed Trauma in Communities and Schools | Education Now · YouTube · Harvard Graduate School of Education · 32 min · for registered students
- Getting Started With Trauma-Informed Practices · YouTube · Edutopia · 4 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Keeping children safe in education 2026 (DfE) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 198 pages · for registered students
- Educational Psychology (Seifert & Sutton), ch. 7: Classroom management and the learning environment · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 138–158 · for registered students
- Educational Learning Theories, 3rd ed., ch. 13: Critical Pedagogy · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 310–336 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
