Brain Research
This system of the brain is associated with survival and safety?
What is the Brain Stem?
What you offer to others, you _________.
What is "strengthen within yourself"?
Developing this skill will help you to manage your own upset when your buttons are pushed.
What is Composure?
This Conscious Discipline structure is designed to assist children in changing their inner state from upset to calm.
What is the Safe Place?
This provides valuable opportunities to connect.
What are Rituals?
Connection between adults and children literally wires the brain for this.
What is impulse control?
Whomever you have placed in charge of your feelings, you have ______.
What is "Placed in charge of you" or "given your power away to"?
Teaching children to use their Big Voice involves teaching them this skill.
What is Assertiveness?
This School Family job is designed to facilitate and shift our attention by noticing kind acts.
What is the Kindness Recorder?
This is based on noticing and connecting, and teaches what classroom values like "helpful" look like, sound like and feel like.
What is Encouragement?
This part of the brain acts as the CEO and allows us to access our executive skills?
What are the Pre-frontal Lobes?
We attribute this when we choose to "see the best" in others?
What is Positive Intent?
You may have to make it up, but attributing (blank)____ to a misbehaving child promotes cooperation.
What is Positive Intent?
This is the teacher's primary job in Conscious Discipline.
What is "keep it safe" or "the Safekeeper?
Being of service to others activates the higher centers of the brain.
What are Jobs?
These Neurons allow us to download our internal states into on another?
What are Mirror Neurons?
Controlling others is Impossible. I can only control this.
What is myself?
This is most effective discipline skill for learning cause and effect.
What are Natural Consequences?
These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection.
What is eye contact, touch, presence, and a playful situation?
Teaches emotional regulation and integrates the brain so children can take personal responsibility for their actions.
What is Empathy?
These are the combined tools of the Executive State.
What are Solutions, Positive intent, academic Integration, Consequences, and Executive Skills
You must focus on this to change any behavior.
What is "what you want"? (instead of what you don't want)
These two skills are most helpful when you discern a child's emotional state.
What are Choices and Empathy?
The School Family structure provides this type of motivation in your classroom.
What is intrinsic motivation?
These are the last two skills that support and foster secure relationships. One provides decision making, the other meets everyone's need for connection.
What are Choices and the School Family?