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

Let’s Establish Some Healthy Habits:

Strategies to Build or Eliminate Habitual Behavior Strategy 1: Environment

Our environment can play a big role in our habits because the environment can make it easier or difficult to perform the habit. The environment is the setting or scenario that can trigger you to do the habit. For example, if you want to decrease eating sweets, put them somewhere harder to get to so you have work to get them. Also, make sweets less visible. You don’t see them, then you don’t think of them. If you increase a habit like drinking water, keep it next to where you are working so you see it when you look up and then drink. In the classroom, if we want our students to use hand sanitizer we place it right at the entrance as students come back in the classroom or hold it out for them to use as they come in from recess. This strategy is likely to increase the chance that they will use the hand sanitizer because it is highly visible or part of their natural flow for returning to the building or classroom.

If there are certain materials like counting manipulatives or special markers that you only want students to use occasionally, you would not have them out on frequented shelves, counters, or tables in the classroom. Instead, you would put these items in a cabinet out of sight or kept in your teacher’s desk.

Keys to environmental design:

1. Visibility 2. Access 3. Flow

Sources: EmpowerU Build Resilience Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJ24ctiWWM

Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.

This tip is posted on Mrs. Rollins’s door, along with some pictures. Students can see this tip anytime they walk through the office.

Tip de Psychologie de la semana

Estrategias para construir o Eliminar el comportamiento habitual Estrategia 1: Medio ambiente

Nuestro entorno puede jugar un papel importante en nuestros hábitos, porque el entorno puede facilitar o dificultar la realización del hábito. El entorno es el escenario o escenario que puede desencadenarlo para que adopte el hábito. Por ejemplo, si desea reducir el consumo de dulces, colóquelos en un lugar más difícil de alcanzar para que tenga trabajo para conseguirlos. Además, haga que los dulces sean menos visibles. No los ve, entonces no piensa en ellos. Si aumenta un hábito como beber agua, manténgala cerca de donde está trabajando para que la vea cuando mire hacia arriba y luego beba. En el aula, si queremos que nuestros estudiantes usen desinfectante de manos, lo colocamos justo en la entrada cuando los estudiantes regresan al aula o lo sostenemos para que lo usen al entrar del recreo. Es probable que esta estrategia aumente las posibilidades de que utilicen el desinfectante de manos porque es muy visible o forma parte de su flujo natural para regresar al edificio o al salón de clases.

Si hay ciertos materiales como objetos manipulables para contar o marcadores especiales que solo desea que los estudiantes usen ocasionalmente, no los tendría en los estantes, mostradores o mesas frecuentados del aula. En cambio, pondría estos artículos en un gabinete fuera de la vista o en el escritorio de su maestro.

Claves del diseño medioambiental:

1. Visibilidad 2. Acceso 3. Flujo

Fuentes: Curso de desarrollo de resiliencia de EmpowerU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJ24ctiWWM

Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.

Este consejo está publicado en la puerta de la Sra. Rollins, junto con algunas fotos. Los estudiantes pueden ver este consejo en cualquier momento que pasen por la oficina.

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