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Observe the changes in the student's behaviour. Identify which actions are far away from normal.
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Talk to the principal and teachers about the student's change. Try to find a solution according to the student's characteristics, likes, and dislikes.
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Observe. Change questions from "What's wrong with you?" to "What's happening to you?". Look for a way to understand the student's context to figure out why is he acting like that.
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It's not just about teaching students how to read and write, but to help them learn how to manage their emotions. It is important to help one student and improve techniques in order to help others and improve as a school.
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You don't need bigger budgets or grand strategic plans, you only need smarter ways of thinking how to improve and think out of the box.
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Pay attention to the context and teach the students how to manage their own emotions through different strategies. You can't ask for something you still haven't taught. They are kids, they are still learning.
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Give students a transition time from home to school for them to calm down their thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Examples of calming area can be: Time-out room, relaxing room, singing songs, jumping around, and humor.
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Learn from what is working for the kid and implement it with other students. Search for more ways of improving development.
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Making them kindergarden helpers
Time-out room
Singing songs
Jumping around
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Sometimes students can reach so much more goals than a teacher by getting closer to their peers. Kids can learn from another kids, we all learn from our environment.
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As teachers, we must proactively address student behaviour instead of reacting to it. Help students to identify their feelings and emotions. Some examples to calm down emotions are counting to 10, grabbing a fidget spinner, and taking a quick walk.
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Allow kids to sing, stand up, jump, make yoga poses, and relax for them to concentrate and acquire more information during the day.
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It is important to encourage students for them to feel comfortable inside the classroom, to focus and learn.
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The magical things is that it is not necessary to spend a lot of money, it is enough to think differently with the resources that we already have.
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It is vital to take the emotional development of the kids seriously in order to see huge growth in reading, math, or any other academic scores.
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It is important to create an environment full of trust and respect. Empathy is such an important thing that we, teachers, should develop. Helping and understanding them since a very young age is the key to raise happy people.
