Brain Research
This system of the brain is associated with survival and safety.
What you offer to other, you ___________________.
What is "strengthen within yourself?"
Developing this skill will help you to manage your own upset when your buttons are pushed.
This Conscious Discipline (R) structure is designed to assist children in changing their inner state from upset to calm.
What is the Safe Place?
This makes you focus on what you don't want.
What is fear?
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?
The Qtip method stands for this.
What is "Quit taking it personally?"
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 ____________ 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?"
This is the age at which the prefrontal lobes mature.
What is 24?
These neurons allow us to download our internal states into one another.
What are mirror neurons?
Controlling others is impossible. I can only control this.
What is myself?
This is the 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?
What are the breathing choices on the Safe Place Mat?
What are STAR, Balloon, Pretzel, and Drain?
These are the five executive skills.
What are empathy, organization and time management, impulse control, working memory, and prioritization?
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 three questions the brain asks.
What are "Am I safe?", "Am I loved?", and "What can I learn from this?"