Understanding the effects of maltreatment and trauma on a child and their impact on development is an essential aspect of every teacher's job. It's as critical as the curriculum to the child's learning ability and overall well-being. But the issues involved are not easy, the answers not always clear-cut. And guidance is often hard for teachers to find.
Right on Course, a Haley Sperling Project, is a comprehensive handbook featuring basic concepts, questions and answers, and case studies of real-life issues faced by teachers and students. This tool will help teachers learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of maltreatment and trauma, understand their role in the child protection system, and craft classroom environments, activities and experiences to maximize learning and facilitate the healing process.
Right on Course: How Trauma and Maltreatment Impact Children in the Classroom, and How You Can Help is written in plain language, with hard facts and statistics, real-life case studies and question-and-answer segments that bring this important information to life.
"Right on Course should provide teachers with more information and knowledge serving to support primary prevention of later problems. Increased information and ideas about how children may be affected by violence can be helpful so that teachers will recognize problems and seek help for children if needed."
—Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D.
Vice President, Zero to Three/National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
"I have never seen materials of this nature prepared in such a professional and helpful manner. I am especially impressed at how you were able to communicate such complex information in a way that people can understand it, and to an audience that is so in need of the information."
—Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D
Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics, University of Rochester
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