Curriculum

The Mindful Student for 9-12 Teacher Support

Before you get started

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Self Awareness

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Self Management

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Responsible Decision Making

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Relationship Skills

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What is social awareness?

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Kids Yoga

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Text lesson

Resource Week 8

Guide- When I have Strong Feelings Resource

In this lesson students will build on the content by adding additional knowledge and tools for dealing with aggression and anger.

Activity

5 min Review content from main lesson “When I have Strong Feelings”

10min

A difficult emotion that is known to cause reactive behavior vs responsive behavior is anger. Let’s discuss when we’ve become so angry we acted from angry and not from awareness.

Hand out or guide students to reflect on

Is there a time when you acted in anger ?
Is there a time when your anger caused you to act in a way you didn’t like?
How does anger feel in your body? Can you tell when your anger is going to take over?
What tools can we use to regulate in the moment of overwhelming anger?

5 min A representative from each group will share a summary of the groups discussion if students worked in small groups.

Extension Have students share individually, have students write down answers to reflection questions, provide an opportunity to meditate and write about the place in the body the emotions show up

What Makes it Hard to Regulate When Angry

History

When we have a history of behaving a certain way when we have strong feelings and it’s hard to change the reaction our body has.

Lack of Skill

You don’t know what to do to regulate your emotions.

Reinforcement

Your environment reinforces you when you are highly emotional.

Moodiness

Your current mood controls what you do instead of your Wise Mind.

Emotional Overload

When we go into a dysregulated this happens it’s hard to regulate our feelings.