Practiced three times per day, this focused breathing practice gives children a tool to help them to regulate their stress and emotions through regulating their physiology, and activating the attentional regions of the brain. Grades 3–5 shows the prefrontal cortex, the amygdala, and the hippocampus-three parts of the brain that help students think and react to what happens around them. From the MindUP website: The Brain Break helps children focus attention and regulate emotions.
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Getting to Know and Love Your Brain: Full colour Posters: Each of the three books comes with an age-appropriate colourful poster with fascinating facts about the brain. (See Lesson 3, page 42, for a complete overview of the Core Practice.) The Core Practice makes mindful attention the foundation for learning and interacting ideally, it is repeated for a few moments of each school day throughout the year. The essential work of MindUP is accomplished through the lessons themselves, which include the repetition of the Core Practice-deep belly breathing and attentive listening. Over the course of the MindUP experience, children learn about the brain and how it functions, in the process gaining insight into their own minds and behaviours as well as those of the people around them. MindUP’s expansive dynamic is built to a large extent on routine practices that are inherent to the MindUP Curriculum. The MindUP classroom is an optimistic classroom that promotes and develops mindful attention to oneself and others, tolerance of differences, and the capacity of each member of the community to grow as a human being and a learner. Children can take themselves to these areas for moments of. Published March 1st 2011 by Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching.
MindUP is a comprehensive, classroom-tested, evidence-based curriculum framed around 15 easily implemented lessons that foster social and emotional awareness, enhance psychological well-being, and promote academic success. Each class has a designated MindUp Zone which is equipped with calming, multisensory resources. The The MindUP Curriculum: Grades PreK2: Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behaviour and learning for all students.Įach lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The MindUP Curriculum comprehensive guides to help all learners focus and reach their potential through brain –centered management and teaching strategies MindUp is central to our strategic vision, it supports us to create a whole-school culture of gratitude, optimism, happiness and respect within which we can all grow and flourish.įor further details about the MindUp programme, including research findings, the curriculum overview and case studies, visit. The interactive teaching and learning approaches, complemented by whole-school mindful practices, help create an exciting learning environment within which children can thrive academically, socially and emotionally. This core mindful breathing exercise, which takes place three times a day, enables pupils and staff to calm their minds, focus and get ready to learn. The MindUp lessons are complemented by the ‘Brain Break’. The 15-lesson curriculum includes practices developed to help children improve their focus, manage their emotions and face challenges with resilience, kindness and compassion. The unique evidence-based framework provides knowledge and understanding of neuroscience, mindful awareness, positive psychology and mindful practices to affect positive change within the classroom and beyond. At St Mary’s School we are proud to be part of the growing network of MindUp schools who promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of our whole school community.