Skills for Learning
What are the 4 skills for learning?
Focus Attention
Listen
Be Assertive
Use Self-Talk
What is Empathy?
Understating what someone else is feeling
What are the three steps to calm down?
Stop Signal
Name your feeling
Calm down strategy
Say the problem
Think of solutions
Explore consequences
Pick the best solution
Travis and Leo are arguing over the swing
What is the problem?
What 3 things do you listen with in Focus Attention?
Listening with Eyes, Ears, Brain
What is compassion?
Understanding how someone is feeling and doing something about it.
Anger, Embarrassment, Nervous, Hurt
Say the problem without blame
Your sister scraped her knee on the sidewalk and she's crying, what can you do?
Teacher judgement
What does being assertive mean?
Asking for what you need in a calm, firm voice
Where can you find clues about how someone is feeling?
On a persons face or body
What are 2 calm down strategies?
Breathing, Count Down, Safe Place, Self-Talk
Calm Down
You can't find the new toy you brought to school for recess.
What should you tell yourself and do to calm down?
Stop Signal
Name your Feeling
Calm Down
What does Self-Talk time?
Talking to yourself in a quiet voice or in your head
How can you show compassion?
Respect, kind words, notes, be helpful,
What is it called when you lose control in your brain?
Flipping Your Lid
What do all Solutions need to be?
Safe and Respectful
Say the problem:
Charles and Sam knocked over the teacher's plant
The teacher's plant is broken
When should you use your skills for learning?
Anytime you are talking or listening to someone
Anytime you are working and trying to focus
How can you try to understand how someone else is feeling?
Put yourself in their shoes
Think about their persepective
When picking a solution what do you need to consider?
What each person NEEDS
Charles and Sam knocked over the teacher's plant
Think of two solutions:
1. Clean up and apologize
2. Hide the evidence and don't say anything