Provide Options for Self-Regulation
by Angelica Flowers
1. Breathing strategies (Conscious Discipline)
2. Scaffold so that students see achievement.
3. The environment must be motivating.
4. Learners should set personal goals.
5. Students should be given an on-task orientation to help them deal with distractions.
6. It is important for students to develop a capability for metacognition.
7. Students should be encouraged to use self-reflection and self-reinforcement.
8. Students need to be motivated for sustained focus and effort.
9. Managing frustration
10. Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation
11. Facilitate personal coping skills and strategies
11.1. Students can regulate affect and attention if motivated.
12. Develop self-assessment and reflection
12.1. Students need to be able to recognize their own progress.
12.2. Learners need to be challenged, but not always in the same way.
13. Students should be taught self-regulation skills explicitly.
13.1. Give reminders, modeling and checklists to help students find a strategy that helps them manage emotional responses.
14. Give models, scaffolds and feedback for:
14.1. Seeking emotional support
14.2. Developing coping skills
15. Examples:
15.1. Safe zone / chill out space
15.2. Zones of regulation
15.3. Alert program: body like a car: too fast, too slow, just right
15.4. Mind Yeti
