Mi Window Open Learning Materials Platform

MI WINDOW project supports the school community (teachers, parents, youth workers school management and educational psychologist) in identifying, responding and addressing behavioural problems in the classroom caused by Developmental Trauma and to respond according to current psychological and neuroscientific research.

The Mi Window Open Learning Materials Platform provides the School Community with the following interactive elements, including ICT-based educational delivery, access to information, tools, and innovative resources:

• Online Digital Database

The Online Digital Database for Developmental Trauma Awareness and Parasympathetic (Nervously Regulating) Activities for learning environments is an exhaustive compilation of innovative practices, projects, policy papers, methodologies and pedagogical approaches, tools and resources. This material, when possible, is divided by stages of brain development and the five senses.

The Database aims to:

• Provide schools with both migrant and native children alike, teachers and parents with parasympathetic / nervously regulating activities which have been neuroscientifically and psychologically verified for classroom use and beyond. The parasympathetic / nervously regulating activities have been selected to address developmental trauma-associated behaviours: anger, fear or dissociation in the school, classroom, home and community. And when applied will help keep primary school students nervously regulated so they can learn as nervously dysregulated or trauma-triggered students are not using the part of the brain which can retain learning. They can also be used by the wider school community when to address nervous dysregulation, as a nervously dysregulated person cannot regulate a nervously dysregulated person. These activities will help the school community become developmentally trauma-informed to maintain the social and educational inclusion of vulnerable individuals.
• Guide the school community to understand those developmental trauma behaviours are triggered without the conscious awareness of the sufferer and should be viewed as an unconscious response to past experience in the present time and treated as such.

• E-learning course with Developmental Trauma Informed Certification

The Mi Window Developmental Trauma eLearning Course has been developed based on the Training Curriculum and Theoretical and Pedagogical Basis; the second project result is available at the project site.

The eLearning Course aims to:

• Provide an easy-to-use online course to upskill the school management, teachers, early childcare workers, youth workers, parents, community workers and educational psychologists
• Certify these target users with the competency of being Developmental Trauma Informed