Do your high school students need to work on self-regulation? If you answered yes, make sure to download our free Self-Regulation Material in the button above!
How to Teach Self-Regulation Skills to High School Students
It can be challenging to address self-regulation skills in the middle of a heated moment. Therefore, it’s best to practice responses and calming strategies in calm moments or practice scenarios during your sessions (check out 10 scenarios provided in our downloadable sample above.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Free Self-Regulation Material
1. Identify Body Clues or Warning Signs
The first step is to teach students to identify when they are feeling stressed or overwhelmed. Talk about clues in their bodies they can use to signal that they need to calm down. Do they feel hot, sick, or like their heart is beating too fast?
2. Review scenarios in the free worksheet
Talk through the situations we provide and ask students how they would feel and respond in each one. This is a great way to work on problem solving skills and independence as well as self-regulation skills.
3. Talk about individual calming strategies
Calming strategies are only successful if students want to use them and feel as though they’re helpful. Talk about what they can realistically see themselves doing. Would they prefer to take a break, listen to music, go for a run, or do any breathing techniques help?
Sample High School Self-Regulation Video:
This sample video below is a great enhancement to any lesson! We provide real life scenarios as age appropriate actors model new skills. We offer a 30 day free trial for all of our social skills materials if you’d like to check more of them out!
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