1st Edition

Fostering Mindfulness Building skills that students need to manage their attention, emotions, and behavior in classrooms and beyond

By Shelley Murphy Copyright 2019
    167 Pages
    by Pembroke Publishers

    The book is an essential guide for teachers on how to incorporate simple mindfulness activities and strategies to help foster self-regulation in the classroom and beyond. There are instructions, scripts, worksheets, and ready to use templates. The book defines self-regulation as students’ ability to manage their own attention, emotions, and behavior. Teachers learn how to help students strengthen their attention-regulation, emotion-regulation, and behavior-regulation skills. Supporting students’ overall well-being, not just their intellectual progress, is the focus of this timely and important book.

    Biography

    Shelley Murphy has been a mindfulness practitioner and educator for more than 20 years. She is a lecturer at OISE–UT, where she teaches graduate courses in Mindfulness in Education, Literacy, Special Education, and Mental Health.