Zones of Regulation
Zones of Regulation is a tool used to help students identify and communicate how they are feeling in a healthy way. It also gives students ideas for how to feel better in a healthy way.
K-2nd
One on One Time
Taking a couple minutes a day to have a meaningful conversation could change a person mood for not just a day but weeks. Sometimes even though it takes a lot of time, meeting with your students could really help them talk about their feelings.
4 Part Apology
Students will able to fill out a work sheet that helps them resolve the ongoing conflict. This in turn will help them map out their conversation.
Circle Up
Gives the students the opportunity to share with their peers and talk about different topics. It is also nice because you can switch partners by just turning around.
Logical Consequences
Logical consequences are consequences given to students that specifically align with what they did wrong. It is helpful because the student will know exactly what it is that they were not doing correctly and how they can fix it so as not to repeat it in the future.
Decluttering the classroom
Decluttering your classroom is getting all of your stacks of papers and items around the classroom that are not being used put away to where they are out of the students’ sight. It is used to make your classroom look more organized and give your students less distractions when trying to focus during class time.
Private Conference
Private student conferences are a great opportunity for teachers to have a conversation with each student concerning academics, behavior or any other concerns the teacher might have about her student. Conferences can be formal or informal depending on the circumstances, a quick conversation or a meeting before or after school.
Reminders
Reminders are useful because they keep us organized and on task in our daily lives and offer valuable support to students. These reminders in the classroom prompt children to do the remembering themselves. Pulling up their memory of established expectations and allow students to decide on an action based on the expectation.
C.A.R.E.S
CARES: C- Cooperation, A- Assertiveness, R- Responsibility, E- Empathy, and S- Self- control. If you want to develop a student-directed learning environment in which students develop self-regulation skills, collaborative social skills, and decision-making skills, the teacher will rely on student ownership, student choice, community, and conflict resolution.
Adjusting Seating Chart
Adjusting the seating chart is a last resort option if the students are being unresponsive to previous phases of trying to resolve the problem of distracting peers through continual talking.
