One of my biggest goals for my students is to help them develop their social-emotional, self-advocacy and self-regulation skills. I want to equip my students with tools that they can use to pinpoint their attention, take a creative mental break, or regulate their emotions when feeling overwhelmed in the middle of a lesson.
Why should we have more unrealistic, higher expectations of our students than ourselves as adults? How many of us adults can sit through four or more hours of nonstop work, meetings and presentations, without needing to daydream, squirm around or take a breather in between all the chatter? Why should we expect our students to do the same?
I will provide these various sensory and tactile tools for my students, so they can take a needed break from the longer stretches of their school day, regulate their emotions when they are stressed, angry, sad, frustrated or similarly overwhelmed, or focus their attention when they have excess energy.
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One of my biggest goals for my students is to help them develop their social-emotional, self-advocacy and self-regulation skills. I want to equip my students with tools that they can use to pinpoint their attention, take a creative mental break, or regulate their emotions when feeling overwhelmed in the middle of a lesson.
Why should we have more unrealistic, higher expectations of our students than ourselves as adults? How many of us adults can sit through four or more hours of nonstop work, meetings and presentations, without needing to daydream, squirm around or take a breather in between all the chatter? Why should we expect our students to do the same?
I will provide these various sensory and tactile tools for my students, so they can take a needed break from the longer stretches of their school day, regulate their emotions when they are stressed, angry, sad, frustrated or similarly overwhelmed, or focus their attention when they have excess energy.
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