Mindfulness
Mindfulness activities and teaching resources such as lesson plans, links to scholarly articles, and advice for teachers who are unsure about implementing mindfulness curriculum.
Various tips, steps and resources for educators to read and learn on how to implement mindfulness into the classroom curriculum.
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.
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.
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 has 7 very simple activities for educators to implement into their daily classroom routine.
Free Meditations from Mindfulness
All of the meditations on the page are taken from their book ‘Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World’. The book contains the complete 8 week mindfulness course developed at Oxford University.
This website has 7 self-care strategies that teachers can utilize in their classrooms.
An assessment measuring mindfulness in children, developed by Dr. Ruth Baer.
A series of meditation recordings designed to introduce mindfulness to teens.
MARC fosters and publicizes research to support the scientific benefits of mindful awareness, offering tools and classes to professionals in mental health, medicine, and K-12 education.
Megan Cowan, founder of the Mindful Schools program, provides some guidelines for educators who want to incorporate mindfulness into the school day.