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?"
Standing up makes this much more blood available to the brain.
What is 10-15%?
This Conscious Discipline structure is designed to assist children in changing their inner state from upset to calm.
What is the Safe Place/STAR Zone?
Developing this skill will help you manage your own upset when your buttons are pushed.
What is composure?
Connection between the 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 "place in charge of you" or "given your power away to?"
Connections on the outside of the brain build these.
What are Neural Connections on the inside?
This School Family job is designed to facilitate and shift our attention by noticing kind acts.
What is the Kindness Recorder?
Teaching children to use their BIG VOICE involves teaching them this skill.
What is Assertiveness?
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?
Connections literally wire the brain for these two things.
What are willingness and cooperation?
This is the teacher's primary job is Conscious Discipline.
What is "to keep it safe"?
You may have to make it up, but attributing this skill to a misbehaving child promotes cooperation.
What is Positive Intent?
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?
What is the term for the ability of the brain to make new pathways?
What is neuroplasticity?
These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection.
What are eye contact, touch, presence, and a playful situation?
This is the most effective discipline skill for learning cause and effect.
What are Natural Consequences?
These are the five executive skills.
What are Empathy, Impulse Control, Working Memory, Prioritization, Organization and Time Management?
You must focus on this to change any behavior.
What is "what you want"?
From what system in the brain would a child most likely use name calling?
What is Limbic System/Emotional State?
The School Family structure provides this type of motivation in your classroom.
What is intrinsic motivation?
These two skills are most helpful when you discern a child's emotional state.
What are Choices and Empathy?