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Why Self-Regulation?
What is needed in order to learn?

Physical Needs Met Cognitive Abilities

Opportunities

Learning

Self-Regulation
Social Skills
Skills
What is Self-Regulation?
- Ability to control thoughts and actions to
achieve personal goals and respond to
environmental factors.
In a school setting: effective self-regulated
learners stay on task, resist distractions,
persist when tasks are difficult and
respond to challenges appropriately.
 What is Self-Regulation?
• Self-regulation is the ability to manage your
– Energy levels
– Emotions
– Behaviours
– Attention
…in ways that are socially acceptable and help
achieve positive goals, such as maintaining good
relationships, learning and maintaining wellbeing.
 Kramer show self-regulation!
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3VCl3yBURs
 CRE, Spring 2013
All Students n=230

Using language to resolve conflicts

Accepting responsibility

Managing powerful emotions

1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00

Average Rating

• 1=Emerging (with direct support); 2=Developing (with guided support); 3=Applying (with minimal
support); 4=Extending
 Car analogy
“My engine is running really fast, really slow or just
right. Once I begin to understand my own arousal states
I can learn to get to "Just Right" on my own.

Hyperalert, “flooded”

Calm, alert, focused

Asleep, drowsy, hypoalert

Four Key Practices to Enhance Children’s Self-Regulation

BE A DETECTIVE

– Try to figure out your child's stressors, what helps

the child stay calm and alert, what leaves a child
hypo-or hyper-aroused?
Hyperalert, “flooded”

Calm, alert, focused

Asleep, drowsy,
hypoalert
 EXERCISE
• For a child who wakes up irritable, exercise that
works their deep muscles is very effective.

Hyperalert,
“flooded”

Calm, alert,
focused

Asleep, drowsy,
hypoalert
 PLAY
• When play emerges from children's
interests it will engage their focus.
• consider the perspectives of others
and figure out what they are thinking.
• encourages communication about
wants and fosters connections
between objects, people & ideas.
• is a challenge that children can take
on which requires self-direction in
order to maintain.
 MindUP
Links cognitive neuroscience with mindful
awareness and psychology:
–Improve focus, concentration, and academic
performance
–Reduce stress and anxiety
–Handle peer-to-peer conflicts
–Manage emotions and reactions
–Develop greater empathy toward others
–Choose optimism

• http://thehawnfoundation.org/mindup/mindup-curriculum/
 MindUP
So far, our students have learned:
– How their brain works and how being calm and
alert helps them to think and learn
– How to do controlled breathing
– How to be mindful with our senses

• http://thehawnfoundation.org/mindup/mindup-curriculum/
 Belly Breathe
• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZbzDOpylA
 References
• Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative
– http://www.self-regulation.ca/
• MindUP Curriculum
– http://thehawnfoundation.org/mindup/mindup-c
urriculum
• CASEL Socio-Emotional Learning
– http://www.casel.org/
• Canadian Consortium for Self-Regulated
Learning
– http://srlcanada.ca/