Student Contributor: H. Potter
This tool is used when a student has a breakdown in class or is not following classroom rules. The student is asked and has the choice to take a stroll in the hallway with an adult. The adults that are available to assist this student are paraprofessionals or counselors. It’s helpful because the student can express feelings to the adult and escape the environment, they were just in. It really helps the students calm down.
The cool down stroll is used when a student is disrespecting classroom expectations or having a breakdown. The student can be asked by the teacher to go for a stroll, or the student can request to go on one. It’s important to use this when appropriate and to clarify when it should be used or else the students will abuse this tool. The students show great response to this tactic. I have never seen a student so far come back to the classroom after a stroll and engage in the same behavior they were engaging in previously. This is also a great tool to have students learn how to express their emotions and learn how to control and decompress when needed.
This tool relates to the corrective phase of management because this is a tool used after the classroom in disrupted. This tool can only be used in the corrective stage because the student had to have disrespected rules or became frustrated over a certain situation. This tool is difficult to decide where to place theory of influence wise because the teacher has the choice to direct the student to take a stroll, but the student also has the choice to nominate his/herself to take a stroll. I would say however, it would most likely fall under Teacher center/collaborative.
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Tool Source: My Mentor
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