Self-Management
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Objective: Students will be able to manage stress during difficult situations.聽聽
Estimated Duration: 20 minutes
Description: A certain level of stress is normal. It can even be positive. Positive stress such as changing schools and meeting new friends can help 石榴视频黄色版 learn and grow.聽
However, not all stress is good. When exposed to repeated stressful events without the tools to manage feelings, stress can become emotionally and physically harmful. Helping 石榴视频黄色版 develop a plan for dealing with stressful situations is one way to make sure that 石榴视频黄色版 are prepared to handle what comes their way.
This activity will help 石榴视频黄色版 develop a guide for surviving stressful situations. They will respond to prompts to help them recognize what they can control and how they can respond when feeling stress.聽
Teachable Moments: There are many ways you can help 石榴视频黄色版 manage stress:
- Work with teachers on your team to limit homework overload, so tests and projects are spread out.
- Incorporate stations to keep kids moving. This gives them the opportunity to take breaks from sitting too long, working with the same peers, or the same assignment.聽
- Schedule time to help 石榴视频黄色版 gets organized. Have them clean out their desks, backpacks, and folders.聽
- Allow 石榴视频黄色版 to use standing desks, exercise balls, or work on the floor.聽
- Provide quiet areas that 石榴视频黄色版 can go to and complete work. Add comfortable seating and positive messages to help 石榴视频黄色版 refocus and limit nervous energy.
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Objective: Students will name and work toward achieving a personal goal.
Estimated Duration: 20-25 minutes聽
Description:聽Setting and achieving goals is a life skill necessary for success and happiness. Teaching 石榴视频黄色版 how to set goals will give them the opportunity for early wins and help them develop belief in themselves.聽
By measuring and celebrating their achievements, 石榴视频黄色版 can see what they have done over a period of time. They can see what they can do if they put their minds to something. For many 石榴视频黄色版 having a list of goals provides them anchors. Having a way to separate them and document progress is important.聽
This activity has 石榴视频黄色版 write goals for each of the following areas in their life, academics, social life, sports/exercise, family, hobbies/interests, and long-term plans. Help 石榴视频黄色版 set goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely.
Teachable Moments: There are many ways you can help 石榴视频黄色版 set and achieve goals:
- Help 石榴视频黄色版 write clear and measurable goals.
- Help 石榴视频黄色版 create a specific action plan for each goal.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 read their goals often and visualize themselves accomplishing them.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 reflect on their progress to see if they are on target.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 revise their action plans if needed.
- Celebrate their accomplishments.聽
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Objective: Students will be able to identify how to take initiative to take action.聽
Estimated Duration: 20 minutes聽
Description: Taking initiative is the link between thinking about something and doing it. In other words, it石榴视频黄色版檚 taking action.聽
Learning to take initiative is important. It is a behavior that helps kids navigate their lives with courage and optimism. Initiative is also a quality of a good leader, and having it promotes teamwork and cooperation. It directs our attention toward a challenging goal and helps us overcome obstacles.
This activity will allow 石榴视频黄色版 to think about something they can do to take initiative in their community to help others. They will create a poster that will help them put their thoughts into action.聽
Teachable Moments: There are many ways you can encourage 石榴视频黄色版 to take initiative:
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 choose activities for themselves to experience internal rewards.
- Encourage 石榴视频黄色版 to get back on their feet after they fail. Show them that you believe in them and their abilities.
- Be a helpful guide. Help 石榴视频黄色版 identify challenges, reflect on their choices, make decisions, modify strategies, and plans next steps.
- Remind 石榴视频黄色版 that taking initiative, does not mean to just follow the rules and wait for someone to offer options. Instead, it石榴视频黄色版檚 doing the work themselves.
- Be a role model. Say things like, 石榴视频黄色版淟ooks like the trash is full. I石榴视频黄色版檓 going to take it out.石榴视频黄色版 Small things can make a huge impact.
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Objective: Students will learn planning and organizational skills.聽
Estimated Duration: 20-25 minutes聽
Description: Being organized helps 石榴视频黄色版 be successful in school and their lives beyond school. Organizational and planning skills are essential to a student's ability to interpret and retain information.聽
Students who have weak planning and organizational skills often have difficulty setting priorities, making plans, sticking to a task, and getting things done.聽
Being able to know when an assignment is due or a test is taking place is an important part of being organized. If work and studying are not planned in advance, it is easy to underestimate how much time a task requires. A weekly planner can help plan out time so that it is clear when assignments are due and plan out when work may be done.聽
This activity will help 石榴视频黄色版 learn how to create a weekly planner and keep track of their tasks for each week.聽
Teachable Moments: There are many ways you can help 石榴视频黄色版 learn planning and organizational skills:
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 use checklists. Get them in the habit of using 石榴视频黄色版渢o-do石榴视频黄色版 lists and jotting things down.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 sort and organize their papers and documents
- Encourage 石榴视频黄色版 to use their planner every day.聽
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 set a designated study time and place.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 keep an organized notebook.
- Schedule a cleaning time for 石榴视频黄色版.
- Model organization in the classroom.聽
Foldable庐: Action Moments
Estimated Duration: 25-30 minutes
- Cut along the outside solid black lines of the two circles.
- Fold along the three dotted lines on each circle to form two equilateral triangles. The triangles each have three tabs labeled: thoughts, feelings, actions.
- 聽Glue the back of the triangles on top of the triangular gray spaces in the student book that says: Glue Foldable here.
- Discuss what kinds of thoughts 石榴视频黄色版 have about their favorite class.聽 What feelings do 石榴视频黄色版 experience because of these thoughts?聽 How do they act upon these feelings and how do their actions lead back to their thoughts?聽 Follow this same line of questioning to discuss thoughts 石榴视频黄色版 have outside their favorite class.聽
- Under the semicircular-tabs, 石榴视频黄色版 record examples of their thoughts, feelings and actions in their favorite class and outside of the class.
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