Zones
Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green
What are the colors of the Zones of Regulation?
Content is an emotion in the _______ zone.
What is green zone?
Critical organ within the human body that assists students with learning, communication and emotional regulation.
What is the brain?
The zone you would most likely use the tool of jumping jacks in, and give one reason why.
Blue zone, usually, to wake up your senses and body. Possibly yellow zone to burn off some extra energy and get back to green zone.
The typical, expected zone for students to maintain during focused, classroom instructional blocks.
What is green zone?
Bored is an emotion in the _______ zone.
What is a blue zone emotion?
The "thinking part" of our brains.
What is the pre-frontal cortex? (also, sometimes referred to as the "upstairs" part of our brain.)
True or false. The same tools work the same for each student.
False. Each student will need to explore various tools to see what tools work best for them, and for various situations.
These are the expected zones for students to be in during recess or free times.
What is Yellow Zone or Green Zone?
Silly is an emotion in the _______ zone.
What is a yellow zone emotion?
True or false. The pre-frontal cortex works best under pressure and stress.
False. Our pre-frontal cortex needs time and calm in order to activate correctly and work most effectively.
Name 2 tools that you prefer to use to get you in the green zone, ready for your work day.
Proctor assess answer.
Name at least 6 green zones emotions.
What are Calm, Happy, Proud, Good, Okay, Content, Ready to Learn and Focused?
Confused is an emotion in the _______ zone.
What is a yellow zone emotion?
The part of the brain that activates QUICKLY and is part of the flight, fight, or freeze response.
What is the amygdala? Also called our "downstairs" brain. The amygdala is terrible at making effective decisions and is the part of the brain that we can credit for quick and hasty reactions.
True or False. The best time to use a tool is when you are in the red zone.
False. This is false due to the whole purpose behind the Zones of Regulation to teach, model and use tools proactively, when we are not in an expected zone.
True or False. All zones are okay, depending on the environment.
True. All of the zones are used to describe a certain state of alertness and emotional state, and ALL are okay. The key difference is to assist students in learning that within the classroom, the typical expected zone is often green. Also, practice, practice, practice with students going from yellow (being silly or excited or nervous or frustrated) back to green. I have seen this facilitated among many skilled teachers---BRAVO! Also, this skill comes easier to some students, and some students have had more practice outside of school, please remember that!
Elated is an emotion in the _______ zone.
What is a red zone emotion?
The term, used in today's presentation, when the amygdala is fully activated, and pre-frontal cortex is OFFLINE.
What is flipping your lid?
True or false. We will need to support all students with practice, practice, and practice in using various tools, similar to practicing handwriting or arithmetic, in order to assist students in becoming more proficient at using tools of self-regulation.
True.