Mindfulness
This document provides a definition of mindfulness, an overview of the scientific rationale for offering mindfulness to children and adolescents, a review of the professional and personal benefits of practicing mindfulness, suggestions for developing a personalized mindfulness practice, and two examples of activities teachers can use in their own classroom.
This website provides examples of mindfulness creating a positive influence in the classroom and children’s attention capacity, and how educators can use the tips on the website for their own curriculum. There are also a few links located on the article to further educate the reader on Mindfulness.
A detailed article that describes real examples of how mindfulness has improved students ability to focus and concentrate in class. This article can educate teachers who may be skeptical on how mindfulness can improve students learning capabilities.
Various tips, steps and resources for educators to read and learn on how to implement mindfulness into the classroom curriculum.
Mindfulness activities and teaching resources such as lesson plans, links to scholarly articles, and advice for teachers who are unsure about implementing mindfulness curriculum.
This website includes a downloadable starter lesson for educators, and multiple videos from classroom examples, to scholarly lectures from biologists and psychologists.
This site has a detailed list of activities educators can implement in the classroom to promote mindfulness curriculum. There are also various links and resources to scholarly articles available on this site.
A wide selection of audio meditation and yoga video files are available for both streaming and download. These practices seek to reduce stress and foster mindfulness in individuals.
Aims to reduce adolescent stress and its physical and psychological consequences by teaching teens mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques, enabling them to build social skills, confidence, and more.
Backed by extensive positive psychological research, MindUP aims to cultivate mindful, emotional, social techniques to improve behavior and learning by teaching children skills to manage emotions and behaviors, reduce stress, sharpen concentration, and increase empathy and optimism.
University of Southern California’s Masters in Social Work program has created a Mindfulness Toolkit that contains a list of mindfulness tips, tricks, and meditation for beginners.
Utilizes mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence exercises to build self-regulation, empathy, and mindful attention, gain impulse control to build better regulatory and decision-making skills.