Hokey Pokey Clinic For verbal and physical aggression. This cannot be taught when the student is drunk on emotion. Teachers have to teach it and model it when the student is in control of their body. The Hokey Pokey Clinic is a place to go to turn yourself around. This is an area with a purple bulletin board with nature pictures and a blue wall (if you follow feng shui). The blue bean bag is in this area. Sixty beats per minute (BPM) music is playing on headphones or very softly for the entire room. The student will be given a Kleenex box (empty) with 20 fuzzy pompons. The student is taught to breathe-in-2-3-4 and (Tongue behind two front teeth and mouth closed). Breathing in and out through the nose. The student is to repeat this 10 in and 10 out by dropping a pompon in the box for each part of the cycle. This brings oxygen to the frontal cortex instead of the brain stem. Students are praised and given a token when they use this instead of getting upset. I like for the teacher to model it as well. Pretend he/she is upset about something like the computer not working correctly and go over and sit in the bean bag and breathe counting each cycle of breathing by dropping the pompons into the – Kleenex box. Ice Cube Break For students who lose their temper. I give each of them one plastic ice cube with the word written on it with a permanent marker. They are allowed to use it once “break” per day. This is a hallway pass and the student is allowed to walk up and down the hallway 3 trips to calm themselves down before returning to class. Power Cards Verbal Aggression is one of the behaviors you can address with a card. The front of the card has a topic of interest to them- the back of the card tells them what to do when they are angry, frustrated, or want attention. I make 12 of them the first time and laminate them because the student will lose them from time to time- that way you have a spare.
Hokey Pokey Clinic For verbal and physical aggression. This cannot be taught when the student is drunk on emotion. Teachers have to teach it and model it when the student is in control of their body. The Hokey Pokey Clinic is a place to go to turn yourself around. This is an area with a purple bulletin board with nature pictures and a blue wall (if you follow feng shui). The blue bean bag is in this area. Sixty beats per minute (BPM) music is playing on headphones or very softly for the entire room. The student will be given a Kleenex box (empty) with 20 fuzzy pompons. The student is taught to breathe-in-2-3-4 and (Tongue behind two front teeth and mouth closed). Breathing in and out through the nose. The student is to repeat this 10 in and 10 out by dropping a pompon in the box for each part of the cycle. This brings oxygen to the frontal cortex instead of the brain stem. Students are praised and given a token when they use this instead of getting upset. I like for the teacher to model it as well. Pretend he/she is upset about something like the computer not working correctly and go over and sit in the bean bag and breathe – counting each cycle of breathing by dropping the pompons into the Kleenex box. Ice Cube Break For students who lose their temper. I give each of them one plastic ice cube with the word “break” written on it with a permanent marker. They are allowed to use it once per day. This is a hallway pass and the student is allowed to walk up and down the hallway 3 trips to calm themselves down before returning to class. Power Cards Verbal Aggression is one of the behaviors you can address with a card. The front of the card has a topic of interest to them- the back of the card tells them what to do when they are angry, frustrated, or want attention. I make 12 of them the first time and laminate them because the student will lose them from time to time- that way you have a spare.
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