How does trauma affect learning
Recently, a headline popped up in my Google news feed. My eyes quickly scanned over it, but I never actually opened it up to read it. It was something to the extent of when one thinks one is bad at math; it might just be that one suffers from trauma. This is something I have come across many times working with thousands of students during my career, which I thought will be a good topic to write about in the very first blog on the Simplifying School website. I have had the opportunity to work with thousands of students in my career, on a one-on-one level, by now and I have seen how much trauma and damage can be inflicted on a student’s academic performance through words of classmates, sibling, parents and even teachers. If I have to write about every single case I came across I will be writing non-stop for weeks, if not months. I have seen cases, where parents introduce their kids to me as follows: “And this is (name), (name) is terrible at (subject). I don’t think t...