WILD BRAIN |
STEP
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REBOOT TOOLS
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1. Create Calm |
Establish a calm and stress-aware classroom by creating engaging physical environments, through ‘brain-awareness’ (neuroscience) and proactively addressing learning and life anxieties. | |
2. Connect and Belong |
Create healthy relationships, a sense of being valued and belonging at school using secure attachment tools, healthy relationship lessons, team building and developing an embracing classroom culture. | |
3. Get Centred! |
Enhance self-awareness and empowerment through physical and mental mindfulness. Create a stable, self-responsible class. | |
EMOTIONAL BRAIN |
4. Self-regulate |
Improve self-regulation through emotional literacy and self-management, co-regulation and explicit self-regulation practices, and by supporting students to identify their needs. |
5. Grow Well |
Foster the development of a positive sense of self and possibilities for the future through enhanced intrinsic motivation, problem solving skills, using daily goals and celebrations, addressing fears and building positive mindsets. | |
SMART BRAIN |
6. Engage and Learn |
Engage students through a trauma-informed pedagogy that uses extensive visual cues, narrative and emotional hooks, learning apprenticeships, kinaesthetic methods, stress-aware classroom practices and learning anxiety/ vulnerability management. |
7. Meaning and |
Support students to find meaning by identifying their values and what matters to them, and to develop a unique sense of purpose and meaning in life both at, and beyond school. |