Ask The Experts
Non-verbal communication is received more intensely than verbal communication when you are dysregulated. Name 3 types non-verbal communication.
Tone of voice, posture, facial expressions, gestures, pitch and volume, timing and rhythm, proximity, touch.
Negative behaviors are natural human _______ responses.
What is stress?
This is defined as any event that is more overwhelming than which is ordinarily expected.
What is trauma?
Chronological age doesn't meet emotional age
What is Social Immaturity?
Traditional homework requires the function of cause-and-effects thinking
What is Neo-Cortex?
Holding strong limits and boundaries but presenting them with compassion, acceptance, and a strong relationship combines these two personalities.
What are General Patton and Mr. Rogers?
When the brain is in ________ _______ control, reasoning, language processing, and logic are online.
What is top-down?
How can you help a student during transitions?
Greet each student, prepare students ahead of time for transitions, use visual schedule, provide accommodations/assistance, use pleasing music or songs
Traditional classrooms run in a _____ structure, with a focus on academics
What is hierarchical?
The ability to withstand pressure without becoming dysregulated or reaching a breaking point
What is the Window of Tolerance?
Better ________- __________relationships make the school day better.
What is student-teacher
In order to help co-regulate a child, the adult must be in this state.
What is regulated?
The stressful in utero experience marks the initial imprint of a child's ability to...
What is self-regulate?
The highest priority in a classroom
What is the Teacher-Student relationship?
Some solutions to help Billy with homework are...
What is helping Billy regulate, break it down, emotional space, Billy is the teacher, reduce stress, different types of work?
Traditionally, we have been asking, "How do I get Billy to change his behavior?" instead of these two critical questions.
What are "What is driving Billy's behavior and what can I do in this moment to improve my relationship with Billy?
When a child is dysregulated, what needs to happen first before learning or consequences can begin?
Regulation
The big three trauma impacts...
What are powerless, helpless, and hopeless?
When teachers are chosen for this award, it is primarily based on how they relate and connect with their students, not on how well they teach.
What is Teacher of the Year?
Billy needs to be taught how to interact in a way that will avoid negative responses
What are the 4 L's: language, learning, logic, and listening?
What are 3 things you could do or say to help regulate a student?
Validate their thoughts/feelings, provide an opportunity to co-regulate/regulate, offer sensory breaks, meet basic needs, positive relationship, routine, support transitions.
Explain why traditional negative reinforcers don't work. (loss of recess, time out, suspension, Friday school, sitting outside the classroom)
They create division, sense of not belonging, and lack of safety for the student. It confirms his internal belief from a history of abandonment and rejection, that he is a bad child.
These are a body's response to perceived danger.
What is flight, fight, or freeze?
The ability to understand others' feelings, control own behaviors, get along with others, and build relationships
What is social and emotional development?
_______ and _____ allow access to the thinking brain or neocortex.
What are Safety and Security?