In Dr. Stuart Shanker's book, Calm, Alert and Learning - Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation, he refers to the motor analogy, asking one key question: How is your motor running today?
Low? Just Right? High?
The following picture is a classroom sample in a JSK in which the educators has brainstormed a variety of feelings with their students to help them gain a better understanding of what those feelings areand how they can translate into responses for the motor analogy.
SNAP (Stop Now and Plan)
is another strategy that Dr. Stuart Shanker suggests as a highly effective strategy to insert a pause into student's automatic reactions so they are able to think of an alternative action before verbally or physically acting out.
The MindUP Curriculum Grades K-2, Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning and Living supports the importance of knowing how your brain works and leads to self-regulation through repeated lessons that focus on daily deep breathing and attentive listening
The MindUP Curriculum Grades K-2, Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning and Living supports the importance of knowing how your brain works and leads to self-regulation through repeated lessons that focus on daily deep breathing and attentive listening
MindUP makes my brain happy, so I can learn better." - David, first grade
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