TIC (September, 2018) – Below are interventions from the “Kid Whisperer” professional development In August. The following strategies align with trauma-Informed Interventions:
- Request thinking (verbal)
- Say to a student, “take a breath and think”
- A preventative errand
- You notice a student nearing his/her breaking point
- Ask the student to take a stapler to another teacher
- You notice a student nearing his/her breaking point
- Question Matrix
- You need to stimulate the brain. When you tell someone what to do, they are less likely to do it. Demands trigger power struggles.
- Say “What’s next?”
- Say “What now?”
- Say “Where should you be?”
- Say “What should you be doing?”
- Say “Is now the right time for that?”
- Say “Does that cause a problem?”
- Say “Just because I like you, should I let you get away with that?”
- You need to stimulate the brain. When you tell someone what to do, they are less likely to do it. Demands trigger power struggles.
- “I” message
- It is a 3 part “I” message
- When you I feel because
- Make an appointment
- This is not a consequence
- When a student is exhibiting a negative behavior you whisper to them in a calm and caring manner, “Would you like to talk about this later? How does before lunch sound?”