Self-Control

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BLURTING
Developing Background Knowledge
★ What is blurting?
★ What does it look like?
★ What does it sound like?
★ Why do we (or you) blurt?
★ How does it affect others?
 Discuss It
★ What did you learn from this story?
★ What do you think was helpful for them
to stop blurting?
★ How can you stop blurting in your other
classes?
★ Why do you think the Blurt Beans helped
them?
 Expectations
★ Students do not tell other students to
put a bean in the jar.
★ If I interrupt you, or blurt when you’re
talking, that student gets to take one
blurt bean out of their jar
★ You worry about you and your own
beans! :)
 Model It
★ Let’s role play how this works!
○ Can I get a volunteer to be my
blurter?
★ Everyone else model what good
behavior looks like
○ Sitting in your chair
○ Raise your hand before talking
○ Full attention on speaker
○ Doing what is asked of you
 Memorize it
★ At the start of every group I ask the
students to tell me how the blurt beans
works
○ Only I can tell a student they lose a
bean
○ They lose a bean when they talk out
of turn or interrupt me or another
student
 Support It - Guided Practice
★ Take a week to practice having their own
jar and 5 beans every day.
★ Help students come up with a list of
strategies they can do to help them not
blurt and keep their beans (raising their
hand)
 Independent Practice
★ Students practice their strategies in their
general education classroom.
★ Students practice raising their hand
instead of blurting to keep their beans.
 Goal-Setting
★ The goal is to not blurt and talk out of
turn. It can cause friends and teachers
to get upset with them.
★ The goal is also to get their 5 personal
beans into the classroom jar for a reward
 Self-Monitoring
★ Students come in into the resource room
and tell me how many beans they would
still have in their general education
classroom
★ Students will tell me how well they think
they did raising their hand and waiting
their turn to talk
 Self-Instruction
★ At the start of our lessons, students will
repeat to themselves “I will raise my
hand” “I will wait my turn to talk”
 Self-Reinforcement
★ Students will praise themselves for their
non blurting achievements. When the
students raise their hands in my room,
they will tell themselves “I am proud of
myself for raising my hand” “I am proud
of myself for waiting my turn”
The END!