SELF REGULATION

Small Group Curriculum

Riverview Elementary School
Monica Rodela & Reva Ballat
 AGENDA:
1. Site Need
2. Objectives & Definitions
3. Pre-Assessment Procedures
4. Lessons
5. Curriculum Evaluation
 SITE NEED
Challenging behaviors in 2nd grade classrooms
• Data:
• High amount of behavior referrals
• Counselor & Intern observations

Parents have expressed a need to support students in

regulating their emotions in and outside of school.
• Data: Parent outreach

Provide students with the skills to resolve conflicts and

demonstrate understanding of the consequences of their
behaviors
 OBJECTIVES OF GROUP
• Students will be able articulate their emotions
• Students will be able to connect how their behaviors
affect other people
• Students will be able to implement tools to regulate
their own emotions and behaviors
• Students will be able to recognize emotions in others

Self Regulation
Emotional Literacy
 SELF REGULATION
• Behaviorally: “the ability to act in your long-term best
interest, consistent with your deepest values. (Violation of
one's deepest values causes guilt, shame, and anxiety, which
undermine well being.)”
• Emotionally: “the ability to calm yourself down when you're
upset and cheer yourself up when you're down.

(Stosny, S. (2011) Self-Regulation. Psychology Today)

 EMOTIONAL LITERACY
The ability to recognize and adapt to the feelings of
other people, while at the same time, having the
ability to manage and express one’s own emotions
effectively.
(Douglas Silas Solicitors, (2016). Emotional-Literacy. Special Educational Needs)
Kuypers, L. M. (2011). The
ZONES of Regulation. San
Jose, CA: Think Social
Publishing, Inc.
 PRE-ASSESSMENT
Students were selected based on past behavior referrals as well
as teacher referrals

Consent form:
• Parents informed them that we would be holding group
sessions for 6 weeks.
• Sessions were 30 minutes each and would be facilitated by
two SDSU School counseling trainees.
• Variety of self-regulation skills we would teach the
students: awareness of emotions, strategies to control
impulsiveness, calming tools, problem solving skills
 PRE-ASSESSMENT
The intake questions outlined the following:
• How students felt on a normal day
• Things that the student found difficult or
challenging
• What the students thought the purpose of the
group was
• What the students wanted to learn in the group
• If the students were looking forward to
participating in the group
SMALL GROUP LESSONS
6 week curriculum
Adapted from Kuypers, L. M. (2011). The ZONES of Regulation.
 LESSON 1:
INTRODUCTION TO GROUP
• Opening
• Welcome
• Pre-test
• Purpose of group
• Ice Breaker/Sticker Chart
• Create group name
• Create group expectations
• Closure
 LESSON 2:
INTRODUCTION TO
THE ZONES OF REGULATION
• Opening
• Welcome
• Review group
expectations and sticker
chart
• Icebreaker
• Introduction to Zones
• Emotional Face Activity
• Closure
 LESSON 3:
ZONES CHARADES
• Opening
• Welcome
• Review group expectations and sticker chart
• Check-in
• Have students identify which zone they are in
• Zone Charades
• Students will draw an emotion and act out for other
students to guess.
• Closure
 LESSON 4:
EXPECTED VS UNEXPECTED
• Opening BEHAVIORS
• Check-in
• “What ZONE should I be in?”
Worksheet
• Have students read different
scenarios and identify what
Zone that scenario fits into
• “Understanding Different
Perspectives” Worksheet
• Closure
 LESSON 5:
SELF REGULATION TOOLS
• Opening
• Check-in
• Administer Lesson Pre-Test
• Introduce “Tools Menu”
• “Tools for each of my ZONES”
worksheet
• Administer Lesson Post-Test
• Closure
 LESSON 6:
• Opening CLOSURE
• Check-in
• Review growth throughout
the group lessons
• “ZONES Toolbox” Activity
• Thank students & remind
them how proud we are of
their accomplishments and
growth
• Closure
 SMALL GROUP CURRICULUM
EVALUATION
• % of groups students will increase score on pre/post test.
• % of group students with no more than one “1” grade mark
on citizenship behaviors
• % of group students who reduced their amount of discipline
referrals
THANK YOU!
Monica Rodela & Reva Ballat