Ring the bell
This tool is used to get students attention. The teacher will ring the bell and the students will put their hands on their heads.
Corrective
Dr. Emotions
Dr. Emotion is a puppet that can be used during community circles to address difficult situations involving emotions. Emotions affect our lives from day-to-day to moment-by-moment and sometimes we struggle with how to deal with our emotions.
Red-Yellow-Green (Moods)
This is a tool that allows students to better communicate how they’re feeling throughout the day. This helps a teacher get a better understanding of when and how to approach students based on their feelings that day.
Think Time
This is a half sheet paper that a student will fill out when a misbehavior occurs, and then discuss with their teacher. This form should be used when a bigger misbehavior occurs.
Resolute Resolution
When an altercation occurs, the teacher initiates conflict resolution, helping guide students to follow three key steps: Listen, Explore, Review.
Signal Interference
Signal interference is one of those tools that is a non-verbal way to correct your students when they are doing an appropriate behavior within your classroom. This tool does not cause any distractions towards other students and it is meant to only target one or multiple specific students who are having difficulty that need to be corrected. What’s great about the strategy is that peers around them will not be distracted by this corrective tool.
3 A’s of Restitution
The 3 A’s of Restitution is a three part process to making amends after exhibiting anti-social behavior. This tool guides students through taking responsibility for their actions and then correcting them.
Cool Down Buddy
The cool-down buddy tool is a corrective strategy that can help students who are going through emotions during class time and need a chance to cool down. When the student is upset, they can quietly walk to tap their cool-down buddy on the shoulder, and walk to the designated cool-down spot in the classroom together.
If You Can Hear Me
In a kindergarten classroom, when there are multiple behaviors occurring at once, it can be hard to get the attention of the class and redirect the behaviors. Using an alternative to Simon Says, students follow actions I say, such as “if you can hear me put your hands on your head” and progressively get quieter until I have all students’ attention.
Safe Space
Safe spaces in a classroom consist of allowing students to go and relieve stress, calm down and recharge their emotions before going back to learn. A safe space supports students social-emotional learning by teaching these students to focus on their good emotions and manage their bad emotions.
