SKILLS
Is the willingness to change our internal state from upset to calm and bring our mind to where our body is at the moment.
COMPOSURE
These icons teach children how to disengage the stress response, they are also I Calm activities.
Breathing techniques: star, drain, balloon, pretzel
This Power says: the motivation to behave comes from being in relationship with others. When we notice their contribution to others we teach them the importance of sharing their strengths.
This power is about noticing, connecting and accepting children.
Power of Unity
The teacher asks a student to use the I Calm icons. She invites him to breathe using the star technique.
Which social emotional competence the teacher is teaching through this CD strategy?
Self Management
The only way to soothe this brain state is through the creation of SAFETY.
SURVIVAL STATE
This Skill helps us transform hurtful situations into helpful communication. We can resume this skill in the following phrase: We cannot change the behavior until we change how we view it.
Positive Intent
This structure procedure is related with the skill of consequences. It helps to "go back in time" to change a hurtful event into a helpful one. Your roll while you are using this is being a coach.
Conflict Resolution Time Machine (Mat).
The goal of this power is to accept the moment as it is in order to respond to upset with empathy and build personal responsibility within children. Create a positive self-image. Celebrate accomplishments and learn how to offer empathy to self and others.
Power of Acceptance
Name the five social-emotional competences.
-Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision Making
A student gets upset with her friends because she wants to play with the ball, but it is not yet her turn. She gets angry and starts crying, crosses her arms, and when it is finally her turn, she decides not to participate while continuing to cry. She does not feel understood, and things are not going the way she wanted.
In which brain state is she?
Emotional Brain State
If we encourage Building the School Family and Connected Family belongs to which Power?
Power of Unity
Is located in an area that feels cozy. It require a clear view of classroom activities. It is a learning center where children are guided through the Five Steps to Self-Regulation.
Safe Place
According to this phrase: No one can make you angry without your permission.
To which power does it refer? Clue: is related with the Skill of Composure
Power of Perception
Every day in your morning routine you do the Wish You Well ritual, where you ask your children to wish others well when they are absent or struggling with a life issue.
Which social emotional competence are you practicing through this CD ritual?
Social Awareness
Is our response to upset – and can only be soothed through connection. Which is this Brain State Model?
Emotional State
Saying “no” and being heard, setting limits respectfully. As an adult you: set limits for children in an assertive manner, focusing vigilantly on what we want children to do.
Skill of Assertiveness
Visual Routines, Daily Schedule and Classmate books. These visual structures are related to which skill?
Skill of Assertiveness
The phrase is "See the best in others" The goal is to learn how to offer developmentally appropriate empathy to themselves and others.
Which power is this?
Power of Love
A teacher post visual rules in her classroom.
She post two pictures of what children can do and one picture of unacceptable behavior for each rule they created.
Which social emotional competence are she practicing through these visuals?
Responsible Decision Making
A child is constantly interrupting the class. When the teacher calls his attention, instead of stopping, he continues with his disruptive behavior. When the teacher asks him to change seats, he throws himself on the floor, screaming that he will not move and hugging the chair. He then starts throwing the chair and books and crying intensely. When the teacher approaches, he runs away from her and hides under the table, screaming, kicking, and crying.
What brain state is he in?
Survival Brain State
This skill comes with the Power of Intention where mistakes are opportunities to learn. They must be logical and natural.
Skill of Consequences
We use these structures to practice the skill of Positive Intent.
1. Were we can honor something special about our friends.
2. We can send good wishes and vibes to the people we love.
Celebration Center (Wall)
Wishing Well
"What you focus on, you get more of"
We must shift our focus to the positive action we want children to use in order to see the teaching that is necessary for us to scaffold their success.
Which power are we talking about?
Power of Attention
The teacher starts the day with a connecting activity which stimulates the impulse control systems of the brain. These activities involve eye contact, touch, presence and playfulness.
Which social emotional competence is she teaching through these connection activities?
Relationship Skills
A student is not respecting his classmates and the teacher will say something like this...
Why are you heating? Are you a baby? Why you are not using your words? Do you want to go to the babies room?
In which brain state is the teacher?
Survival Brain State