Brain Research
Powers for Self Control
Discipline Skills
School Family
100

Q: This system of the brain is associated with survival and safety.

A: What is the Brain Stem?

100

Q: What you offer to others, you _____.

A: What is “strengthen within yourself?”

100

Q: Developing this skill will help you to manage your own upset when your buttons are pushed.

A: What is Composure?

100

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?

200

Q: Connection between adults and children literally wires the brain for this.

A: What is Impulse Control?

200

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?”

200

Q: Teaching children to use their BIG Voice involves teaching them this skill.

A: What is Assertiveness?

200

Q: This School Family job is designed to facilitate and shift our attention by noticing kind acts.

A: What is the Kindness Recorder?

300

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?

300

Q: We attribute this when we choose to “see the best” in others.

A: What is Positive Intent?

300

Q: You may have to make it up, but attributing (blank) to a misbehaving child promotes cooperation.

A: What is Positive Intent?

300

Q: This is the teacher’s primary job in Conscious Discipline.

A: What is “keep it safe” or “the Safekeeper?”

400

Q: These neurons allow us to download our internal states into one another.

A: What are Mirror Neurons?

400

Q: Controlling others is impossible. I can only control this.

A: What is myself?

400

Q: This is the most effective discipline skill for learning cause and effect.

A: What are Natural Consequences?

400

Q: These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection.

A: What is eye contact, touch, presence and a playful situation?

500

Q: These are the five executive skills.

A: What are Empathy, Impulse Control, Working Memory, Prioritization, Organization and Time Management?

500

Q: You must focus on this to change any behavior.

A: What is “what you want?” (Instead of what you don’t want.)

500

Q: These two skills are most helpful when you discern a child’s emotional state.

A: What are Choices and Empathy?

500

Q: The School Family structure provides this type of motivation in your classroom.

A: What is intrinsic motivation?