Warm and sympathetic teachers can allow children to see adults in a positive, supportive, and caring role. Creative classroom experiences can further enhance the process of healing. Teachers find that interjecting into their classroom activities specific types of information designed to help all children can actually be of great benefit to abused and neglected children. For example, two issues that often create problems for victims of abuse and neglect are recognizing and expressing feelings and making decisions. Many teachers have successfully designed and used segments on the recognition of feelings.
Some teachers make creative problem-solving an integral part of their curriculum.
In this way not only do all children learn how to make more effective decisions, but abused or neglected children are encouraged to feel less helpless. Educators need not be therapists. They only need to be creative in their activities and consider what maltreated children need most. Inability to express feelings Use of a feeling barometer. Begin each morning with discussion of how we feel.