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Simple Ways to Create a Safe Place in the Classroom

With trauma, various learning needs and other personal or social issues, there are a lot of students who feel unheard and unwanted. This is why it’s so important to create a safe place in the classroom for your children.

This place doesn’t have to be expensive or difficult to create or maintain. It also doesn’t have to be just one part of your room.

The following actionable steps will help you create a small space and a whole class environment so that it’s inclusive of everyone. These concepts are simple and easy to implement. Many of these steps can easily be integrated into the curriculum. For example, step one can be a part of your health and art unit.

Let’s dive in.

Actionable Steps:

#1. Whole Class Mindfulness

You don’t have to buy any special books, chimes or anything special. You can if you want to, but it’s not necessary.

If you have access to YouTube, choose some instrumental classical music and have your students either close their eyes and deep breath to it or put their head on their desks so that they can center themselves. You can also have them complete an assignment to it.

#2. Independent Mindfulness

Teach your children how to self-regulate so that they can see the signs of being overly frustrated, angry, too excited or other emotions that might prevent them from learning or put them in a position to hurt themselves or others.

The following resource will show you how to create a safe space in your classroom on a minimal budget. It will support you in teaching your children how to understand and manage their emotions independently. Choose the ones that best suit your students’ needs.

#3. Respect Personal Space

Teach children about maintaining their personal space. For example, should we hug others without their permission or take things off their desk without asking first? If we accidently bump into someone, what do we say and do?

This skill is important because depending on the grade that you teach or a child’s abilities, if the other child doesn’t know that it was an accident, they might get angry and lash out.

#4. Discover Learning Opportunities

Look at how your children learn best. Are they better at listening, speaking, doing or reading and writing.

Additionally, assess what they’re interested in and see if it’s possible to integrate it into the curriculum. For example, do they talk abut dinosaurs, ballet, or architecture.

As soon as you include this step into your teaching practice, your students will enjoy coming to class because they’ll know that you care about them and are listening to their needs.

Recap:

Let’s recap really quickly. Today, we looked at the following:

  1. The reasons why it’s important to create a space place in your classroom.
  2. Four ways to to do it: whole class mindfulness, independent mindfulness, respect personal space, and discover learning opportunities.

Free Resources:

If your children are struggling to hand in assignments on time, check out the following video training: 3 Steps to Teach Children How to Overcome Procrastination to Increase Productivity.

Next Steps:

For calm down areas on a budget, for your students who have autism, CLICK HERE.

You’re welcome to join us inside ADHD and Autism Self Regulation by CLICKING HERE or on the fallowing image.

If you found this video beneficial, would you do me a favor? Share this with your family, your friends, your loved ones, your co-workers or someone who you think could benefit from this. Thank you!

I’ll see you next Friday at 5:30pm PST.

Until I see you next time, remember to create, experience & teach from the heart.

Take care,

Charlotte


Disclaimer: I’m a teacher and a parent. I’m not a medical professional, so please don’t take this as medical advice. The advice that I provide in my videos and online are strategies that I have used in my own class or at home that have worked beautifully.

Simple Ways to Create a Safe Place in the Classroom

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