Stress, Performance, and Ross Green

kids do well if they can

1. Biological – Reframe the behaviour
2. Emotional – Id the possible stressors
3. Cognitive – Reduce the stressors
4. Social – Become self-aware
5. Prosocial – Figure out strategies that work for you

• behaviourism doesn’t do us any favours
  • just develops student’s strategies on how to avoid punishment
• Self regulated learning helps us understand stress, and encourages a prosocial environment
• stress behaviour vs. mis behaviour
• Mindfulness: for assumptions and bias that skew our perception of why students/ children behave the way they do

General Stressors

social demands

too busy

conflict at home

worries about loved ones

technology

Classroom stressors

learning tasks

sensory stimuli – sounds – seating / kinesthetic / olfactory (smells)

social interactions

answering questions

talking in front of people

unmet mastery needs

“motivational posters”

technology