4. 2. 4 Teachers' view about the effect of trauma on other
students
Teachers were asked whether trauma has an effect on other
students who are not traumatized and table below indicates their responses.
Table 13: Teachers' view about how traumatized students
affect others
|
Responses
|
Frequency
|
Percentage
|
a) Yes
|
9
|
100
|
b) No
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
Source: Primary data
The table above shows that all teachers (100%) agree that
traumatized students affect others who
are not traumatized. This may be
caused by the variety of individual responses to trauma which
is related to many factors, including a student's prior
history of trauma or loss, prior or current mental health issues such as
depression, anxiety, or behavior problems, and individual differences in
temperament.
4. 2. 5 The teachers' view about trauma crisis and
interruption of courses
The teachers were asked if sometimes courses are interrupted by
trauma crisis; their responses are summarized in the table below.
Table 14: The teachers' view about trauma crisis and
interruption of courses
|
Responses
|
Frequency
|
Percentage
|
a) Strongly agree
|
1
|
11
|
b) Agree
|
4
|
44
|
c) Uncertain
|
1
|
11
|
d) Disagree
|
3
|
22
|
e) Strongly disagree
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
Most of the teachers responded that trauma crisis interrupt
the teaching-learning process. 55% agreed this statement, 22% were uncertain at
this statement, 11% disagreed this statement and no one strongly disagreed that
it interrupts the courses. They continued saying that this does not take more
than two days the time that courses are interrupted due to trauma crisis.
Teachers were also asked what the school does during the
period that trauma interrupted courses and they answered that the school helps
those students and organize a sensitization of students and all school staff
about their daylily life in general and especially about the trauma mitigation.
Teachers were also asked what they do in that period and they said that they
become closer to students in order to help them and to explain them that it is
normal that an individual can be traumatized cause of so many factors such as
the background of an individual.
4. 2. 6 Trauma among teachers
Teachers were asked whether they are usually some of them who get
traumatized especially during the mourning period and the table below shows
their responses
Table 15: Trauma among teacher
|
Responses
|
Frequency
|
Percentage
|
a) Yes
|
1
|
11
|
b) No
|
|
8
|
89
|
|
Most of teachers disagreed that they become also traumatized
(89%) only one teacher (11%) said that they become traumatized. They were also
asked what does the school do when a teacher become traumatized one teacher
(11%) said that he is allowed to a break of about a week, other staff visit
him/her and he/she return at school after the crisis.
Teachers were also asked how trauma affects the
teaching-learning process and they said that it affects this very negatively
because if one student is traumatized, it is very difficult to continue
teaching, this leads to not completion of the curriculum and this makes student
perform poorly in examination at school level and at national examination. This
indicate that as trauma affect the teaching-learning process at all level on
the side of teachers and students because this decrease absenteeism of students
and/or teachers which leads to non-completion of the academic program.
Teachers were also asked the challenges they face while
teaching classes with traumatized students and almost of them answered that it
is difficult to handle them because sometimes they are considered as
indiscipline cases and also when it occur on a student who is known to have bad
behavior. Recognition of each student's background is also impossible because
teachers locate far from the school and gone at school only the time of
teaching which makes them not to be aware of students' particularities such as
those of trauma.
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