1. Mindfulness Strategies for Teachers and Students
Aaron and Kathy Dang

2. Aspects of Mindfulness
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness strategies for teachers and students.

3. What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment with an open, curious and non-judgmental mentality.

4. Mindfulness in the classroom:
Teacher Practice
Then teach your students:
Breathing exercises
Mindful movement
Mindful procedures
How the brain works
How to regulate emotions using mindfulness

5. Teacher Practice Self care Self Compassion Your mindful practice Yoga
Gardening
Reading
Quieting the mind (breathing exercises.)

6. Integrate your knowledge into the classroom:
Model it!
`How do we take a breath in this classroom?
How do we walk in this classroom?
How do we treat ourselves and others?

7. Breathing Exercises Using the bell How to “take a breath”:
Belly breath
Wave breath
belly→ candle → wind → throat → lion
lion→ throat → wind → candle → belly

8. Mindful Movements Linking breath and movement Brain break Whole group
“Open the door”

9. Mindful Procedures Paying attention to the task at hand
Mindful walking

10. Teaching about the BRAIN
Parts of the brain
How the brain and breath works together.

11. Teaching how to manage emotions:
When difficult emotions arise:
Recognize that you’re having a difficult emotion
Identify which emotion it is
Comfort yourself in knowing that everyone suffers
Accept and soothe who you are at that moment, just as you would to a close friend in need
“Right now I am…”
“We all struggle in our lives…”
“May I be kind to myself and give myself what I need.”

12. Resources MindUp Curriculum (textbook)
Mindful Schools (website and facebook)
Sitting Still Like a Frog (guided relaxation-audio and book)
I Am Peace and I Am Yoga-Susan Verde and Peter Reynolds (picture books)
GoNoodle (online resource)
Teach, Breathe, Learn (teacher resource and practice)