Lesson 8: Creating a Resource
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The Zones of Regulation in the Elementary Classroom and Beyond
Unit 1: What are The Zones of Regulation?
Unit 2: What are different ways to help students identify their feelings in the classroom?
Unit 3:What are coping skills and how do you teach them to students?
Lesson 7: Supports for home use
Instructions
Create a resource that you could send home to a family. The options of what you could create are endless. Here are some guiding questions to help you: Choose a specific family/child you want to create this resource for. What are their needs? What do they have at home that they can already use or need to utilize better? What prior knowledge/skills does the family already have that can be useful? How are you presenting/teaching this resource? Will you be printing it and giving it to the family or does it need to be digital?
Example
The following is an example of an activity I sent home for families to use. Each of my families have a school issued ChromeBook, therefore, this resource was accessible to them. Families labeled the zones with the different feeling as a group. This allowed them to communicate and decide which zone each feeling went into. This was one of the initial tools I used to teach the Zones of Regulation. Eventually, I moved families into creating their own Zones chart to use at home.
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Rubric
| 3 | 2 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear | The resource is focused on one clear strategy or piece of information. | The resource is focused on one clear strategy or piece of information, but occasionally goes off target. | The resource is not focused on one clear strategy or piece of information. |
| Interactive | The resource allows families to interact with it and not just throw it aside. | The resource mostly allows families to interact with it and not just throw it aside. | The resource does not allow families to interact with it. |
| User Friendly | The resource is easily accessible, age appropriate and easy to use. | The resource is easily accessible, somewhat age appropriate and mostly easy to use, however, there can be some mis-conceptions. | The resource is not easily accessible, is not age appropriate and is not easy to use. |
Final step
Click on the following link to add your created resource. [1] Feel free to look and comment on each-others work in order to provide feedback and support. This should be a resource that you can use to after completing this course. Be Creative and have fun!
Head back to the course home page to read some final thoughts on this course. The Zones of Regulation in the Elementary Classroom and Beyond