How do we take movement breaks to the next level? How do we move beyond GoNoodle into breaks that are beneficial for children's sensory and reflexive systems and ultimately their academic success?

Seminar Title

How do we take movement breaks to the next level? How do we move beyond GoNoodle into breaks that are beneficial for children's sensory and reflexive systems and ultimately their academic success?

positive engagement, movement, intervention, design, development

Elementary

Elementary

Other

All Disciplines

Have you looked out into your sea of willing and excited children and wondered who invited the tsunami? Do you frantically pull up another GoNoodle hoping to pick just the right dance song to get their wiggles out before the wave crashes ashore? How do we take movement breaks to the next level? How do we develop breaks that are beneficial for children’s sensory and reflexive systems and ultimately their academic success? Before you hit play on GoNoodle again, let’s talk about the research behind specific breaks. What makes them the most impactful? How do we tailor them to the needs of all of the children in our room? My action research this school year has centered around a specific program entitled Ready Bodies Learning Minds that was created by a physical therapist as a support to teachers and support staff in growing and developing students’ sensory and reflexive systems. In this session we will examine how different behaviors you see within the classroom setting may be driven by different reflex systems as well as how different movement breaks and supports may help. The research shows that different movement and break styles are needed for different students. I have applied this research in my role as a behavior interventionist in Kindergarten through third grade classrooms; however, it can be used in any PreK-fifth grade with the curriculum I used during my research. I look forward to our time together! We will be able to share our own learning, look at the research, and have rich and open discussions about what reflex and sensory driven behaviors might look like in your classroom and how small, research based and supported changes to movement create a sea of Ready Bodies and Learning Minds.