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The PAX Good Behavior Game (GBG), and the 10 Kernels that support it, help students build executive functioning. GBG is a short, concentrated effort in which they are expanding their tolerance for stress, being on task, and fixing their own behaviors. PAX Games develop self awareness and self management skills through prediction, self monitoring, and by providing immediate feedback throughout the game.
The PAX Good Behavior Game (GBG), and the 10 Kernels that support it, help students build executive functioning. GBG is a short, concentrated effort in which they are expanding their tolerance for stress, being on task, and fixing their own behaviors. PAX Games develop self awareness and self management skills through prediction, self monitoring, and by providing immediate feedback throughout the game.
SEL Competency and Standards Connection
The GBG supports students in practicing and growing in:
What the Research Says
(2019, Visible Learning 250+ Influences on Student Achievement)
Feedback: 0.70 Information allowing a learner to reduce the gap between what is evident currently and what could or should be the case.
Effort management: 0.77The process by which a learner uses tactics—such as mood management, self-talk, persistence, self-reinforcement, or attribution of success to effort—in order to achieve a particular goal.
Goal commitment: 0.48 A person’s determination to achieve a particular goal is most important when the goal is both specific and difficult to accomplish.
What’s the Point?
Develop self awareness and self regulation skills
Provide immediate feedback and reinforcers for expected behavior
Develop social awareness and communication skills throughout lessons
Provide students with the opportunity to make connections between effort and outcome
How is this Strategy Used by the Teacher?
Plan 3 opportunities throughout the day to play a PAX GBG intended to provide the class with progress monitoring on behavioral expectations.
Track game time and spleems to support skill development
Schedule games and post on daily schedule
Create teams and provide opportunities for each team to communicate needs and expectations including ways to support each other throughout the games.
How is the Strategy Used by Students?
Monitor self awareness skills
Respond to verbal and nonverbal cues
Cooperate with a team to meet a goal
Set goals as a class and understand their role in everyone meeting that goal.
Use self management strategies to increase engagement and decrease reaction to Spleems or unexpected situations.
Trauma-Informed, Culturally & Community Responsive
During the PAX GBG, students who have experienced trauma recieve peer support and mutiality through teamwork and co-regulation to win the game.
Aspiring toward and winning at the PAX GBG helps children learn they can create safety and predictability in their worlds.
PAX GBG offers children the opportunity to feel empowerment and efficacy to overcome challenges.
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