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Trauma-informed instruction in early-childhood education is very important. My only experience working in schools with a trauma-informed curriculum has been at the junior high and high school levels and by that point, students with previous trauma had already developed negative coping skills or behaviors. Trauma-informed teaching for students at an early age would help to give a foundational set of positive coping skills or alternative behaviors for a student to use in crisis as opposed to waiting until habits have been formed.

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Trauma informed teaching at a young age is vitally important. Often when trauma is suppressed or overlooked at a young age, it can grow and become a bigger problem in the years to come. Often trauma shows through in early childhood education as behavior problems. Behavioral problems could lead to missed academic instruction, or a label that psychologically affects the child for years to come. By dealing with trauma early, we can eliminate the domino effect of problems as well as communicate with kids that having a problem is okay,. IT shows kids that they can grow through trauma and not be defined by it.

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Trauma-informed care is huge when students are young. I saw a video that said trauma effects all children differently. It can even affect babies. If we ignore trauma it does not get better as the student gets older. If you start younger students will be able to teach children the best ways to handle situations. Also you give them a relationship that are really wanting. You give them a bond and show them a positive role model.

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Trauma-informed care at the early-childhood level is important for teaching resiliency,  coping strategies, self-regulation, sense of control, and positive self-esteem to students. Without early intervention, these students may go on to face larger challenges as they get older. Unfortunately, students who have faced trauma and do not get the proper care may face disciplinary issues later on in their school careers. Catching and addressing the trauma early on is crucial for the future of the child.

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Trauma informed care in early-childhood is important because it teaches students to express their emotions at an early age. Without trauma informed practices being implemented early on, students may spiral and struggle with their emotions later in life. It's important that as educators we ensure that we are creating safe places for our students.

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Trauma informed care at an early age is very important. It's hard to accept that kids are going through such trauma at such a young age. I think one of the things that is the most important is allowing a child to express their emotions at an early age. If they don't feel comfortable expressing emotions, then they will not be able to show them when they get older. More importantly every child needs a trusted adult or someone to confide in them. Without that, they will struggle to do well and may struggle even more in school and with behaviors. As a teacher, it is important to be aware of trauma and help students through it.

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The amount of students coming into early-childhood education that have experienced trauma is a hard fact to deal with. I taught in a school where students came with more trauma than I could imagine experiencing in my lifetime and they were only 6-7 years old. Having trauma-informed care intervention at such a young age will be crucial to the students learning how to build new coping skills, work through meltdowns, and be able to move from their survival state, to emotional, and eventually to their executive state. This will build a solid foundation for them so that as they grow older and progress through their education more of a focus will be able to go towards academics, and their willingness to stay in school.

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Providing trauma informed care early on will help facilitate the healing process for children who have experienced trauma at a young age. This creates feelings of trust, security, and safety for that child as they continue to grow and develop. If these early interventions were not put into place, the student would continue to grow up feeling insecure, distrustful, and feeling unsafe. Those are basic needs that should be met for a child and when they are not they seek them out, usually in an inappropriate way. This will impact their academics, and their ability to connect with peers and adults. The earlier interventions can be put into place the better.

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Trauma informed care in early childhood education is so important because it helps build a foundation of trust, healthy emotional regulation, and success in a Childs education path from the very beginning. If a students does not learn how to properly identify emotions and learn how to regulate them from an early age they will struggle as they get older and older. I have many students in 4th grade that struggle to identify how they are feeling and how to help themselves regulate that feeling. If interventions are not put into place early one, these students will continue to not know how to regulate themselves which could lead to intense behaviors, time out of school, etc.

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Without trauma-informed classes students are impacted in a million ways. Their overall development will be impacted which will negatively effect their social lives, mental health, and school work. Long-term effects include lack of education, physical and mental health concerns, social lives, employment, annual income, and more. If a child is coming to school while going through trauma, how can we expect them to learn. Trauma interventions need to be at the forefront of education if we want our children to learn and succeed.

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Trauma-informed care is extremely important for children of the early childhood age.  When children are young, as the article stated, the brain is most impressionable to adverse experiences.  In the article it states that teachers of early childhood learners are often ill-equipped to deal with the trauma that their students face.  The article also states that these students often become excluded by their peers due to the dramatic behavior that they exhibit.  In my experiences, I have seen this with my first grade students.  This year, one of my first grades students mom died.  This was a traumatic experience that is going through and does not have the coping skills that he needs. Therefore, he is often angry and upset and lashes out at other students. I have noticed lately that he has become more isolated on the play ground and students have expressed that they are scared of him.

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As others have stated, trauma informed interventions in early childhood programs is imperative to the success of students that have experience acute or chronic trauma between the ages of 0 and 4. These students need to acquire the coping skills necessary to manage and communicate their emotions to maintain success as they progress through the school system . Having taught 6th-8th grade ED/BD students, I have not only taught students that have experienced chronic trauma, but I have also experienced the results of this trauma when students lack the appropriate coping mechanism needed to manage their own emotional responses. In the process, I incurred some trauma. Social/emotional standards are more prevalent in the state of Illinois, but I still feel schools are not well equipped to teach proper coping skills to students on a large scale. We all know that if these skills are not taught at an early age, then student behavior spirals out of control. Andrea's presentation about the school to prison pipeline is a prime example of the possible outcomes.

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Trauma-informed care is very important in early childhood, because that is the foundations of the rest of their lives. If a child goes through trauma at such a young age and aren't receiving clinical or therapeutic help, they are going to struggle later in life at a time where others might not know what has happened to them. As a 4th-6th special education teacher, I have seen it firsthand where students have behaviors that come out, that seems out of the blue for the teachers. After talking to the families to get support, we oftentimes learn about something in the child's past that wasn't previously addressed. There is so much development throughout a child's life that at some point it could be so hard to reverse.

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Trauma informed care is extremely important in early childhood. I was shocked when the article started with stating that 26% of children will experience trauma before turning 4. That truly shows how important trauma informed practices should be in early childhood and education in general. if no interventions are used to support these students, the students could the traumatic experience can impact brain development in many ways. If they are unaddressed, they can continue to have emotional and academic impact on their lives.

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Trauma-Informed Care Intervention in early-childhood is extremely important. The data shows that nearly 30% of children experience some form of trauma before the age of four. If students don't receive strategies and guidance through a trauma-informed intervention, they are losing valuable time to heal through the trauma they have experienced. As students got older, they may not have the necessary coping, social-emotional, or self-regulation skills they would've had if effective intervention was in place. A student on my caseload experienced trauma at the age of three. He went through some very difficult times and finally got adopted at the age of ten. He has a lot of difficulties now and his parents are working very hard to help him heal through past trauma.