Healing Beyond Borders: Understanding Trauma and the Refugee Experience 

Unit Overview

Skills and Strategies in Focus: Listening, Pronunciation, and Speaking

Age & Level: 13+ (adolescents); Level B2 (see CEFR levels) 

Length of Lessons: 90 Minutes

Introduction to Trauma and PTSD

Understanding Refugees: Empathy and Resilience

Sounding Safe: Expressing Thoughts on Refugees

The Teacher Toolkit

Extra resources for increased comfortability and preparedness before teaching students about refugees and 9 resources for outside research that students can use to make presentations leading to a class discussion/debate.