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Each week we will be sharing a tip from our school psychologist, Mrs. Rollins.

Strategy 5: Pairing

Pairing is where we take two things a put them together to encourage a habit. Want to walk more for exercise? Pair it with time spent with a friend, listening to your favorite podcast, or calling up a friend/family member you haven’t talked to in a while. When you walk, you do the other activity with it to help encourage the habit. If you are decreasing a habit, see what events co-occurred with it and maybe change one of those. If you are trying to curb snacking and you paired studying with snacking, replace the snacking with something else like drinking flavored water or chewing gum and pair that with studying.

In class, if you have a student reluctant to do the next thing on the schedule, pair it with something you know they like. Examples could be: flexible seating, having a soft item on their desk, listening to music (if appropriate), using noise-canceling headphones (if appropriate), letting them doodle (if they have shown they can do both) or letting them hold a fidget item (if they can do both). If you want to decrease a paired habit, like the student doodles during tier 1 instruction, but is not listening, then replace that doodling with a different paired activity like squeezing a stress ball or using a fidget item, but they must have eyes up on the teacher and engage in the instruction.

Sources: EmpowerU Education Build Resilience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WYc62R7lqc Gretchen Rubin, author of Better than Before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBra5Gum-b8

Consejo psicológico de la semana

Cada semana compartiremos un consejo de nuestra psicóloga escolar, la Sra. Rollins.

Estrategia 5: Emparejamiento

El emparejamiento es cuando tomamos dos cosas y las ponemos juntas para fomentar un hábito. ¿Quieres caminar más para hacer ejercicio? Combínalo con el tiempo que pasas con un amigo, escuchando tu podcast favorito o llamando a un amigo/familiar con el que hace tiempo que no hablas. Cuando camines, haz la otra actividad con ella para ayudar a fomentar el hábito. Si está disminuyendo un hábito, vea qué eventos coinciden con él y tal vez cambie uno de ellos. Si estás intentando frenar el consumo de snacks y emparejas el estudio con el consumo de snacks, sustituye el consumo de snacks por otra cosa como beber agua con sabor o masticar chicle y emparéjalo con el estudio.

En la clase, si un alumno es reacio a hacer lo siguiente en el programa, emparéjalo con algo que sepas que le gusta. Algunos ejemplos podrían ser: asientos flexibles, tener un objeto blando en su escritorio, escuchar música (si es apropiado), usar auriculares con cancelación de ruido (si es apropiado), dejarle hacer garabatos (si ha demostrado que puede hacer ambas cosas) o dejarle sostener un objeto de juguete (si puede hacer ambas cosas). Si quiere disminuir un hábito de pareja, como que el estudiante garabatee durante la instrucción de nivel 1, pero no esté escuchando, entonces reemplace ese garabateo con una actividad de pareja diferente, como apretar una pelota de estrés o usar un elemento de intranquilidad, pero debe tener los ojos puestos en el profesor y participar en la instrucción.

Fuentes: EmpowerU Education Build Resilience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WYc62R7lqc Gretchen Rubin, autora de Better than Before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBra5Gum-b8

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