Giving students choice, using engaging tools and creating personalized materials for students can help calm anxiety and help students engage with what you are teaching.
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Book Creator is the perfect place to give students choice and create personalized materials. The five simple to use tools give students so many choices about how to access material and how to show what they know or can do.
Choose your own adventure story in Book Creator
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We need to co-regulate before we can self-regulate. Parents of young child co-regulate all the time by singing to their children, rubbing their back, etc. A great way to co-regulate with your students in the classroom is to do some DPA or guided meditation with your students.
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GoNoodle is a free website with ready to go activities to do with your class to co-regulate together.
Most of us work well if we are working towards something. In a classroom it is important to have some structure and approval about what the rewards will be. Instead of just giving a student an iPad to have free time it's better to structure the choices and provide some guidance about what you expect the student to be doing.
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Choice boards are a great way to let students have choice from pre-approved options. Make sure that students know how to use all of the choices on the board.
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You could use these bigger, fancier words to describe this kind of student need.
Learning Skills: Self Regulation
Executive Functioning: Emotional Control
Executive Functioning: Response Inhibition
Executive Functioning: Cognitive Flexibility