Brain Research
Q: This system of the brain is associated with survival and safety.
A: What is the Brain Stem?
Q: What you offer to others, you _____.
A: What is “strengthen within yourself?”
Q: Developing this skill will help you to manage your own upset when your buttons are pushed.
A: What is Composure?
Q: This Conscious Discipline structure is designed to assist children in changing their inner state from upset to calm.
A: What is the Safe Place?
Q: Connection between adults and children literally wires the brain for this.
A: What is Impulse Control?
Q: Whomever you have placed in charge of your feelings, you have _____.
A: What is “placed in charge of you” or “given your power away to?”
Q: Teaching children to use their BIG Voice involves teaching them this skill.
A: What is Assertiveness?
Q: This School Family job is designed to facilitate and shift our attention by noticing kind acts.
A: What is the Kindness Recorder?
Q: This part of the brain acts as the CEO and allows us to access our executive skills.
A: What are the Pre-frontal Lobes?
Q: We attribute this when we choose to “see the best” in others.
A: What is Positive Intent?
Q: You may have to make it up, but attributing (blank) to a misbehaving child promotes cooperation.
A: What is Positive Intent?
Q: This is the teacher’s primary job in Conscious Discipline.
A: What is “keep it safe” or “the Safekeeper?”
Q: These neurons allow us to download our internal states into one another.
A: What are Mirror Neurons?
Q: Controlling others is impossible. I can only control this.
A: What is myself?
Q: This is the most effective discipline skill for learning cause and effect.
A: What are Natural Consequences?
Q: These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection.
A: What is eye contact, touch, presence and a playful situation?
Q: These are the five executive skills.
A: What are Empathy, Impulse Control, Working Memory, Prioritization, Organization and Time Management?
Q: You must focus on this to change any behavior.
A: What is “what you want?” (Instead of what you don’t want.)
Q: These two skills are most helpful when you discern a child’s emotional state.
A: What are Choices and Empathy?
Q: The School Family structure provides this type of motivation in your classroom.
A: What is intrinsic motivation?