Trauma-Sensitive Questions For Getting To Know Your Students and Building Connections

New November 2025!

What’s something that used to scare you but doesn’t anymore?

How can you calm yourself before talking about a problem?

Learning through questioning is an age-old way of learning. This book contains over 400 questions to encourage creativity and get to know your students better.

Trauma-informed questions are developed with keeping in mind that certain topics may trigger a child who may have experienced trauma or just might be sensitive to certain topics. We created prompts that are more general/open-ended as to not force a child to work with a prompt that makes them uncomfortable.

For example:  Instead of asking, “What was the best time you had with your mother?” We ask, “What is a wonderful time you experienced with an adult in your life?”

You can use these questions when working with children through:

Discussions / Critical thinking / Writing prompts / Team building / Providing social-emotional support / Building community AND Just getting to know your students better

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