Establishing the Essential Conditions for Learning
Children's ability to manage stress and anxiety can vary significantly, and schools play a crucial role in helping them identify stress and its effects while building effective coping mechanisms.
Establishing the Essential Conditions for Learning
Getting Regulated
Children's ability to regulate stress and anxiety varies. Schools can help them identify stress signs, grasp its effects, and build effective coping skills.
- Movement breaks, mental health checks, breathing exercises to manage stress
Feeling Safe
An emotionally safe classroom ensures all children feel valued, supported, and affirmed.
- Establishing a place where mistakes are welcomed, encourage taking risks in the classroom
Ability to LEARN
Genuine care, attunement, and reciprocity in school relationships create a safe and secure environment for learning and risk-taking.
Establishing Connecting
Connected students feel belonging, acceptance, security and value, honouring differences and showing respect to all.
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- Checking in with students regularly.
Establishing Relationships
- Showing interest in student's passions, one to one conversations with students, self- evaluations, collaborative learning opportunities.
Students require supporting, accepting and empathetic relationships and environments to establish a secure, connected and regulated foundation pic