Lisa Godwin : How teachers can help students navigate trauma

Lisa Godwin·TED Masterclass
How teachers can help students navigate trauma
Summary
The speaker is now a teacher. She experienced severe trauma when she was a child. She was helped by a great teacher. He asked her many times. She didn’t talk for a long time but she wasn’t understood by adults when she started to talk. It’s was easier to believe the abuser rather than a child.

However, only the great teacher and a school guidance counselor continued believing her. The speaker could overcome her experiences, and as a teacher, she thinks that she can do the same things for her students who have serious trauma. She adds that the reason that she can do is not that she was a victim. Be careful not to assume that you already know the ending to the story of students. Navigate them.

Words in this story
un·wa·ver·ing /ənˈwāv(ə)riNG/adj/
steady or resolute, not wavering