Revolutionize Your Learning Space for Student Success – Justin Lyons

Revolutionize Your Learning Space for Student Success – Justin Lyons

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What does the physical and emotional climate of your classroom look like?

Do your students complain about being tired? Is it hard for them to sit-up straight after hours of seated instruction? Is there enough clutter in the classroom to cause a panic attack? Does daydreaming and fidgeting replace attentive and ready-to-learn behaviors?

Watch this recording to assess the state of your school today and the different environments of learning to better address the needs of students.

You’ll earn how neuroplasticity, our sensory system and ergonomics work together to advance learning and academic success! You’ll discover how universal design concepts, in both learning and architecture, will foster the right educational climate for all students!

Then we dive right into:

• Managing common interfering behaviors, like low or high arousal, fidgeting, low self-esteem and sensory defensive behaviors
• Tons of out-of-the-box movement and sensory-based activities/strategies to improve reading, handwriting, social, emotional and executive functioning skills
• Handouts and checklists to assess your various school environments
• Practical, low-budget ways to alter your classroom into a sensory-rich, movement-motivating space to support learning, self-regulation and personal health and wellness
• Tackling stress, under-aroused or dysregulated behaviors in students through mindfulness
• Using the power of language and other sensory-motor therapeutic activities to improve mood, mindset and the personal environment of the student

Finish this program feeling confident in your ability to create neuro-friendly spaces to meet the academic and emotional needs of your students.

1. Implement the latest evidence-based research on neuroplasticity and articulate the factors that support increased learning and growth.
2. Identify the 8 sensory systems through hands-on sensory learning labs, and utilize sensory strategies that meet students’ academic and emotional needs for increased school participation and improved learning outcomes.
3. Assess and modify various learning environments, by identifying environmental barriers in the space you work in and establish at least 10 environmental modifications that help support neuroplasticity and more efficient students.
4. Determine which physical factors hinder or support learning and uncover strategies/activities that will promote movement and neuroplasticity as a result of these factors.
5. Promote wellness in the classroom by pinpointing which educational tools or work behaviors can cause repetitive stress injuries and incorporate exercise routines and environmental modifications which can reduce or prevent injury.
6. Examine the role of stress (both physical and mental) on learning and neuroplasticity and identify treatment or classroom activities that reduce stress and promote neuroplasticity.

Assess the State of Your School Environment Today

• Defining the environments of learning
• Movement and neuroplasticity – identify the crucial connection to learning
• Technology in the schools – the pros and cons
• Universal Design and ergonomics in the classroom
• Surveying the workspace/class space – Checklists and handouts

Setting the Stage to Optimize a Multi-Sensory Experience

• Video demonstration and Learning Lab
• Recognizing the 8 senses in action
• Real-time assessment of the classroom
• Impact of technology
• Stressors of learning

STRATEGIES AND THE “HOW-TO”

Ergonomic Solutions for Optimal Learning Environments

• Simple DIY tricks for the classroom
• Seating solutions – tall vs. short, wiggle seats, and more!
• Reduce clutter and other classroom organization hacks
• Classroom design ideas that promote executive functioning skills
• How to incorporate light and color to promote learning
• The “20/20/20 Rule” and other ergonomic tips for better endurance and attention
• ”Common scents” – aromatherapy pointers for the class or student

”Get Moving”: Strategies to Support Active Bodies in the Classroom

• ”No need to interrupt instruction time”
• Put the hands back into “hands-on” learning – leave the computer out of this!
• ”Go-to exercises” for the whole classroom to:
  • Preserve health and wellness
  • Incorporate fun into the day
  • Increase endurance and efficiency
  • Foster movement and reduce dysregulation
  • And more!

Sensory-Motor Techniques to Improve Classroom Skills: Hands-on Lab

• Multisensory approach for skill retention
• Proprioceptive strategies – letter recognition, formation, sizing and spacing
• Vestibular and visual connection – reading and note-taking outcomes
• Sensory suggestions – executive functioning skills (alerts and visual reminders)
• Sensory-based tools to get students engaged – gum chewing, mini-sensory stations and therapy balls …
• Visual-motor games and strategies – vision-based school tasks
• Group activities to build social learning skills and classroom connection
• Low-tech strategies (you don’t need an app for everything!)

Redesigning the Emotional Culture of the Class: What is the Language of Your Classroom

• Fostering a “growth mindset”
• Breathing and muscle relaxation techniques
• Address the stress: “Go-to” mindfulness activities and guided imagery
• Language hints and tricks to manage challenging behaviors

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