This article will present guidelines for using routines, and is helpful after reading one of the two seminal articles Important Things to Remember about Routines or Using Classroom Routines to Create a Therapeutic Brain Settling Effect. Routine is a significant regulator of the physical and emotional systems of the body and the brain. For example, when you travel and take a vacation and many of your routines are altered, it is disruptive at first to your digestive system, your sleep process, and your stress response, even though a vacation is something you want to do because it’s enjoyable. Routine is a brain and body regulator in the classroom too, but it is also much more than that…
Download: Guidelines for Using Routines
See also:
Using Classroom Routines to Create a Therapeutic Brain Settling Effect
Important Things to Remember about Routines
Guidelines for Using Routines (this page)
Social Emotional Learning Routines
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