3MT Finalist - Jaclyn Roach — Transcript

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1. 0:02Our presentation is before the burnout,
2. 0:05preparing future teachers for the field.
3. 0:14Picture this. Period four, grade nine.
4. 0:1832 14-year-olds in my classroom. I'm
5. 0:21sitting at my desk helping a student
6. 0:23when suddenly the room erupts. There's a
7. 0:25huge crash and I look up to see one
8. 0:27student in full rage. He's just thrown a
9. 0:31chair and hurt another student.
10. 0:33Seemed to come out of nowhere. The room
11. 0:35fills with fear. No one knows what to
12. 0:37do. Then he and the injured student are
13. 0:40taken away.
14. 0:42Things like this are happening in
15. 0:44schools across the country all of the
16. 0:46time.
17. 0:47But what happens after the event events?
18. 0:50What happens to the kid who threw the
19. 0:51chair? The one who got injured? The 30
20. 0:54others who watched it happen?
21. 0:56What happens next day? Are we all just
22. 0:58expected to come back and learn?
23. 1:01Well, after all is said and done, I was
24. 1:04expected to just go back to teaching.
25. 1:07But I was overwhelmed. We were
26. 1:10overwhelmed.
27. 1:12Despite my experience, the system hadn't
28. 1:14prepared me for this reality.
29. 1:17The one where teachers are expected to
30. 1:19stay calm and collected all of the time.
31. 1:23Even though we're just humans, too.
32. 1:26And this gap in our training is most
33. 1:28noticeable in these emotional intense
34. 1:30moments when teachers are expected to
35. 1:33help students manage their feelings
36. 1:36while experiencing our own.
37. 1:38And when we aren't prepared for these
38. 1:39realities, the cost shows up in
39. 1:42classrooms.
40. 1:45It's paid in student learning, but it's
41. 1:47also paid by passionate teachers.
42. 1:50Teachers like me who leave the classroom
43. 1:52because we weren't given the tools to
44. 1:54survive it.
45. 1:56This moment was traumatic for students,
46. 1:59and even though no one thought to ask,
47. 2:01it was also traumatic for me.
48. 2:04Teachers can do hard things,
49. 2:07but they deserve to be prepared for
50. 2:09those things.
51. 2:11For my research, I have created and am
52. 2:13facilitating a three-part workshop
53. 2:15series for future teachers, offered
54. 2:17before and after their first major
55. 2:19practicum.
56. 2:21Grounded in trauma-informed teaching, an
57. 2:24approach that values safety and care,
58. 2:26these workshops help future teachers
59. 2:28recognize how trauma, both theirs and
60. 2:31their students, shapes behavior and what
61. 2:34happens next in the classroom.
62. 2:37We also focus on how trauma shows up in
63. 2:39the small moments of everyday classroom
64. 2:41life,
65. 2:42and how teachers can care for their
66. 2:43students and themselves
67. 2:46while building capacity to stay in this
68. 2:48profession.
69. 2:50To understand the impact of this work,
70. 2:53my research captures the lived stories
71. 2:55of these future teachers.
72. 2:57Using surveys, written reflections, and
73. 2:59interviews, I'm looking at how this
74. 3:01learning shapes practicum experience and
75. 3:04confidence.
76. 3:05So, teacher preparation does more before
77. 3:08the teachers are left on their own.
78. 3:10If we want classrooms where real
79. 3:13learning happens, and where teachers
80. 3:15want to stay,
81. 3:16they need to be prepared for the
82. 3:17realities of this job.
83. 3:20This isn't about asking teachers to be
84. 3:22stronger. Preparing them better to do
85. 3:24the hard things is how we care for
86. 3:26everyone IN THE ROOM.
87. 3:41THANK YOU SO MUCH, JACQUELINE.