Practice What You Teach: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Through Experiential Learning
- Jonathan H. Westover, PhD
- Apr 21, 2025
- 1 min read
Community Voices Section
Submission Date: March 31, 2025; Acceptance Date: April 18, 2025; Early Access: April 20, 2025
Title: Practice What You Teach: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Through Experiential Learning
Author: Kimberly Lewinski, Trent McLaurin, Ashley Herr-Perrin, La Salle University
Abstract: In this faculty spotlight, we will highlight two professors of education and their approach to teaching and modeling trauma-informed pedagogy. In their courses they are teaching pre-service teachers about trauma-informed pedagogy and taking intentional steps to build spaces within their higher education classrooms that are also trauma-informed. This allows students to experience what trauma-informed instruction feels like in practice. Additionally, these professors worked together to blend their two courses and involve members in the local community to prepare pre-service teachers with a greater connection to the local communities in which they will student-teach and potentially one day work.
Keywords: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Institutions of Higher Education, Pre-Service Teachers, Teacher Education
Suggested Citation:
Lewinski, K., McLaurin, T., and Herr-Perrin, A. (2025). Practice What You Teach: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Through Experiential Learning. Transformative Social Impact: A Journal of Community-Based Teaching and Research, 1(1). doi.org/10.70175/socialimpactjournal.2025.1.1.10
