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Regulation “Is the ability to adjust level of alertness AND direct how emotions
are revealed behaviorally in socially adaptive ways in order to achieve goals.”
Self-Regulation entails: !
• Self-Control/Emotional Regulation • Resiliency • Executive Functioning • Self-Management • Anger Management • Impulse Control • Sensory Regulation/Modulation
Adapted from the work of Clair Kopp
Zones of Regulation “Zones are a systematic, cognitive behavior approach used to teach
self-regulation by categorizing all the different ways we feel and states of alertness with experience in four concrete zones.”
“The zones curriculum provides strategies to teach students to become more aware of and independent in controlling this emotion and impulses, managing their sensory needs, and improving their
ability to problem solve conflict.”
• Heightened state of alertness !• Intense emotions !• No control !• May feel: !
• Elated • Angry • Rage • Terror • Devastation
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Red Zone
• Heightened state of alertness !• Intense anger, but some control !• May feel: !
• Stress • Anxiety • Frustration • Nervousness • Excitement • The Wiggles • Silliness
!
Yellow ZoneCaution
• Calm state of alertness !• Optimal learning occurs !• May feel: !
• Happy • Cotent • Focused • Calm body • Ready to learn
Green ZoneGood to Go
• Low state of alertness !• Low arousal !• May feel: !
• Sad • Sick • Tired • Bored
Blue ZoneRest/Re-Energize
Framework ❖ It is a teaching tool ❖ It is not a behavior model !❖ It is a thinking framework ❖ It is not a behavior approach !❖ It is a way to nurture skill development ❖ It is not a way to shame behavior !❖ It is supportive in nature ❖ It is not punitive in nature
Adapted from Leah Kuypers
Take Aways• We don’t label a zone as good or bad !• A child can be in more then one zone !• Manage the zone, don’t try to force into another zone !• Individualize the tools for each child !• All the zones are expected at one time or another !• It is a teaching tool, not a behavioral approach !