Kagan

Principle 1: Nourish the brain

• Encourage exercise
• Promote play
• Improve diet
• Supply hydration
• Train proper breathing
• Teach with movement

Practical Tips

• use lots of state changes 'take off, touch down'
• allow students to have water at their desk
• train breathing (4-4-8)
• use movement structures and games 'take off, touch down'
• build in intense exercise

Principle 2: Safety

• Safe context- learning/evaluations
• Celebrate diversity
• Inclusive teams/ inclusive class
• Play background music
• Promote play
• Incorporate humour
• Relaxation- breathing, muscles, quiet time

Practical Tips

• 'Rally Robin' and 'stand up, hand up, pair up'
• allow different modes of learning and demonstrating
• build teams
• daily joke, laugh olympics
• progressive 1-2-1 breathing
• advocate daily quiet time

Principle 3: Social

• Activate social cognition
• Include classbuilding
• Cooperative interaction
• Teach social skills
• Promote cooperative play

Practical Tips

• have students 'mind read' instead of memorize
• class building games: 'two truths and a lie'
• class meetings
• explicitly teach cooperative learning structures
• model positive social skills
• include play

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