Facilitator Notes Understanding Trauma in Classroom Teacher Primary Version final June

(1) Temporal Lobe is responsible for: memory, understanding, language, facial recognition, hearing , vision, speech
and emotion.
(2) Parietal lobe is responsible for: perception, object classification, spelling, knowledge of numbers, visuospatial
processing
(3) Cerebellum lobe is responsible for : gross and fine motor skills, hand to eye co-ordination, balance
(4) Frontal lobe is responsible for : thinking, planning, problem solving, emotions, behavioural control, decision
making
(5) Brain stem reptilian brain is responsible for regulates body temperature, heart rate, swallowing, breathing, this
is the part of the brain that responds with flight, flight and freeze response
(6) Occipital lobe is responsible for : vision, visual processing, colour, identification
Even though these slides of adults, what they demonstrate the difference in the brain activity and may give us some
more sense of how our children may struggle with processing information and engaging in the learning process. Of
course this will also show us how some of our parents may have difficulties in processing information and how their
structure of the brain will also be impacted.
The brighter the area this is where the brain is most active and the darker area is where there is least active.
These images show the alertness
within our brain.
If we were in a dangerous
situation this is what the activity
in our brain may look like.
Once the danger passes the
electrical activity that made us
respond to be safe, would return
to normal.
For a child who has or is
experiencing trauma their brain
will always be in a state of over
activity as shown in this slide.
It may reduce after a while, but
research suggest that never to
the level of a health bran.
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