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Keith Archibald

10-12

I'm going to use it during my writing class this week

I think it will benefit students to talk through what they think they know and let them reflect on understanding

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Resource K-5- Meditation for attention span - Using the calm app - help students to stay calm and help to increase their attention span.

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Meditating for attention span and exercising to help with focus/attention

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Journals, Learning Logs or Exit Summaries:

If I did this again, I would….

What part did you struggle with?

How did your thinking change?

What did you do well?

With what do you need help?

What was easiest for you?  Hardest?

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High School Resource Math

I use predictions I run a timer they get to answer at the end of the timer on zero but it counts out of order.

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Dacia Overstreet

10-12

I’m going to use them during our long notes days. I have a book of “Would you Rather” that students love to discuss.

I think it will help students keep focus for the last half of class, especially 6th period right after lunch when they are all sleepy and ready to go home.

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I teach kindergarten.

This strategy will help teach attention and focus.

Strategy: Pace your teaching with students' attention. Use the CRAVE acronym- Curiosity, Relevant, Ask Questions, Variety, Emotions. Breaking information into small 8 minute chunks will help to keep students' attention.

I can use this strategy by using a variety of strategies during my lessons to keep students engaged.

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Focused-Attention Practices

Breathing: I want to use this activity to help my students transition smoothly from SPECIALS. I noticed my students are really hyper after specials and this breathing strategy will be a good idea to help them back to focus and be mindful.

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2nd Grade

Engagement - Collaborative Learning

It's called Switch - you teach something for one minute, then have them Think-Pair-Share, when the 1st student is done teaching the partners stand up and high-5 each other, also, if you have a student that doesn't want a partner - have them teach their shoe and make sure the shoe is nodding along or shaking side to side in confusion:)

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Reading Strategist K-5

Brain Break - Focus Activity - Other Languages

I work at a DHH/HI school and students often see others using sign language. They have a high interest. Students always want to learn new words to communicate, but also a great way to introduce words that relate to a lesson or activity.

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Resource K-5 - Improving Attention -Adaptation on portfolio and choosing the best work they've done. When practicing handwriting have them circle their best letter C.

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1. Fumi Campbell

2. Intermediate Resource Room (4th/5th)

3. Focused-Attention Practices

4. I would teach the breathing/color combo (Green for inhale and gray for exhale) for my resource students who have social/emotional skills to manage their emotions (especially anger management).

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Jodi Ward

6th grade Explorations - World Language

Invisible Pictures would be great (and fun!) for vocabulary practice. We could use it with whiteboard markers and then transition to Pictionary style game to practice their ne words

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Kindergarten

My purpose would be for my students to focus more and I could incorporate this in between transistions to different subjects.

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Katie Pipho 8th grade history and geography

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Katie Pipho 8th grade history and geography

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RAN strategy~ my students have so many misconceptions so I think this addresses that as well as it provokes them to process new informoation as well as look into wondering what is next. It also promotes them to dive deeper and think about their thinking.

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RBG3 Literacy Specialist

When I was a classroom teacher, I have done the Rock Scissors Paper Math activity with my students to practice their addition facts. The students were always focused during this activity and loved playing it!

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I support new teachers PK-12. This strategy would be for the purpose of goal setting and also reflection. Start with a kickoff 'Do Now' prompt from the teacher and the students respond before the lesson as class begins. Then follow up at the end of the lesson with a learning log where students reflect upon and restate what they learned. It can both prime learning and stimulate metacognitive thinking.

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Middle School- Exercise- Have the students take a 2 minute exercise break in the middle of the class period to refocus their attention.

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Your Grade Level= 2nd grade

Purpose : Focus

Strategy: Dot Focusing-Have students take out a piece of letter-sized paper, hold it sideways, and make a dot in the middle. Ask them to look at the dot and keep their focus on it. When they find their eyes moving away, have them raise their hands Once most hands are up, note how long it took and ask them what led their eyes to wander.

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I am RBG3 and I have been pulled to sub in all grades.Brain Breaks are always fun - especially if they involve body movement.

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1. Mara Brasser

2. Middle School Science

3. Pace your teaching with students' attention.

4. providing the students opportunities to get into breakouts with one another - keeping the breakouts short but with enough time to get them moving with a purpose. I teach online so this is extremely important. The students need to be given multiple avenues of learning and talking throughout the longer block classes.

Using this format, students are asked to make predictions. are asked to participate and share their ideas in chat. Have multiple sections they completed that include a warmup, main concepts, use of a simulation, and then homework. A situation that I often. use is where I ask them to share their screen and they teach.. then I teach.. and we continue this process.

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1. Tiffany Tenney

2. I teach 6-7th grade

3. The purpose of this site is to debunk the idea that we can compare our attention span to that of a goldfish'. I really like that it gives specific examples of how to increase our attention span, including exercise and listening to music intensely.

4. I would use this in my classroom as a blueprint of different brain exercises and as ways to give the students (and myself) a brain break.

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Post-Exam Reflections (pg. 7)

This resource provides probing questions that encourage students to reflect on their test expectations, results, and ways to improve. The questions given help promote metacognition and ownership of their learning.

I would have all students respond to these questions after a summative assignment is returned. This reflection would lead to mastery of learning.

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Strategies for Teaching Executive Function

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Michael S. Martin

Second Grade Teacher

Focus and attention procedures and practices

There are many ways, but I like what the "8 Quick Ways to Improve Your Attention Span" resource

I would simply follow all eight of them. However, the Gum Chewing and the Tea Drinking can be done in the house. Also, tea drinking can be substituted with another drink that has the same approach and benefits as the tea, and also kid friendly.

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Grade Level = K-5

Purpose = Reducing Anxiety/Focusing

One of the areas that I would like to incorporate in our school would be the "Brain Breaks." I see this as a positive way to teach our students how to become one with self, but more so to learn how to control their emotions when they become angry, anxious, or excited. Our students often work off of impulse and do not take the time to understand what is going on around them, they often just react, but by teaching them how to Stop, Think, and then Do, they would become less reactionary, and this would help to reduce a lot of the conflicts and challenges that they face daily.

The breathing breaks would also help them when they are facing stressful times/situations when they are taking an exam/test, or even when presenting in front of their class or audience.

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1. Mara Brasser

2. 8th Grade Science and HS APEX

3. Question Swap

4. Having the students make their own Quizlets/Quizziz's or Blookets to teach one another the concepts they are learning.

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1. First Grade

2. Focus Activity:

First, have students get a piece of paer and draw a dot in the middle of the sheet.

Have students think about when is it important to be able to pay attention during their day.

Then, have students look at the dot on their sheet and keep their focus on the dot.

Tell students when their eyes wander, they are to raise their hand or stand up to signal they lost their focus.

When most students have lost focus from the dot, note how long it took to lose focus and what made their eyes wander.

Repeat the activity, and discuss how students tried to improve on staying focused on the dot.

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5th Grade-

Brain breaks I use mix-pair-share as a way for collaborative discussions to share ideas and movement.

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I am an ES School Social Worker. I would use the Breathing Exercises. We have a lot of students that are struggling with their emotions and feelings due to both home and school issues. The breathing exercises mentioned would be very useful. I specifically enjoyed the breathing activity focused on the use of colors.

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Grade Level = K-5

Purpose = Focus and Attention

The idea of placing a small dot or a small object in the room and having students focus on the dot to build the capacity to focus and increase their attention span is a marvelous idea. I can recall when I played sports from the time that I was 4 years old up until my final snap in college, my coaches would have us focus on a spec on the wall to ensure that we were tuned in, focused and ready to go defeat our opponent. This was transferred to studying and getting ready for an exam in high school, all of the way through law school.

When we are able to train our mind and to get a laser focus, it seems as though we are able to slow time down and take our time in completing the task at hand.

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K-2- Strategies for Teaching Attention and Focus.

I chose the strategy Shine the Spotlight on Attention which focused mostly on the students sharing examples of being so focused on an activity that they've blocked out distractions around them, such as getting lost in a good book or movie, practicing the piano, or perfecting their jump shot in basketball. This strategy reminded me of the game "charades." What a fun way to have students act out a FOCUS while other students focus all of their attention on the students who are acting. I think this would be so fun, meaningful, and engaging for all grades!

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I teach K-5 students. The activity that caught my attention was The Junk Bag. The activity aimed to have students think of another way a household item, typically found in a junk drawer, could be used. This activity encouraged discourse and critical thinking. It also incorporated art and/or drawing. I would use this as a brain break where the students just discuss their ideas or a community-building activity.

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1st Grade

Focused Attention Practices

'Rise and Fall' Students get a stuffed animal, lay down on their backs, place the stuffed animal on their belly, and watch it rise and fall. Students would be very excited about the opportunity to 'play' with a stuffed animal and take a 'break' from learning. ;)

'Movement' There is a channel on Go Noodle that has videos to help students refocus and concentrate on their breathing and spatial awareness.

'Shine the Spotlight' In the beginning of the year, especially for writing, we gradual increase the number of minutes students engage in writing by setting a timer. The timer helps students know how much time is left but also provides a challenge to focus longer than the timer.

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The One New Point strategy in the Whole Brain Teaching reading will help provide focus and metacognition. The idea is that teachers talk too much (I know I do) and students not enough. Here the teacher would talk for 60 seconds about one topic. The example was for a lesson on polygons and for the teacher to talk for one minute just about triangles, not squares or rectangles. Then give the students one minute to paraphrase. I will definitely use this. I just did a lesson on Industrialism and Robber Barons and I wish I had taught students about one of the industrialists at a time and gave them a chance to paraphrase instead of just lecturing about all of them. It's a great strategy that I can see myself using from here out.