Mental Health Gimmicks & Gizmos/Post It

1. Mental Health Gimmicks & Gizmos/Post It Kailey Halliwell

2. Content Area: Mental Health • A psychological well being • Individual’s ability to enjoy life • Creates balance between life activities • Expresses emotions

3. Content Descriptor: Positive Self-Image • Sub-descriptors: • 1.1 Personal assets and strengths (MS & HS) • 1.2 Characteristics of positive role models (MS&HS) • 1.4 How to develop and demonstrate a sense of power (empowerment) (MS & HS)

4. Content Descriptor: Emotional Health • Sub-descriptors: • 2.2 Positive ways to handle/express emotion (e.g., mood swings, hurt feelings, loneliness, and sadness) (MS & HS) • 2.3 Ways to manage and reduce anger and conflict (MS &HS) • 2.4 Ways to deal with frustration (MS & HS)

5. Content Descriptor: Stress Management • Sub-descriptors: • 4.1 How to analyze stressors (e.g., death, ending relationships, changing schools, and rejection) (MS & HS) • 4.2 Coping strategies to reduce stress ( MS & HS) • 4.3 Ways to avoid stress (MS & HS)

6. Mental Health Overview • Create a positive self image • Have students understand they have control • They can choose to concentrate on what they want • Give ways to deal with stress • Think positively

7. NEGATIVE TOSS

8. Gimmicks & Gizmos • What is it? • -Novelty objects used to increase interest levels • How is it used? • -A variety of resources used to actively engage class • e.g. brain wake-ups, cooperative games, & review questions • Suggestions for use: • -Any topic/subject • -3rd-12th grade • -After teaching to check/assess for understanding

9. Gimmicks & Gizmos • Advantages: • 1- Engages entire class • 2- Object draws attention to person speaking • 3- Enhances participation • Disadvantages: • 1- Off task easily • 2- Could hit/injure someone • 3- Time consuming • Materials needed: any novelty object that catches students attention

10. Self-Esteem Builder

11. Post It • What is it? • -A way to record opinions, thoughts, or feelings • -Offers efficient way to assess class level of understanding • How is it used? • -Used to assess understanding • -Good for pre-assessment • -Another way to use it – mark passages in a book to point out text summations and important facts for learning concepts • Suggestions for use • - Any topic, 1st-12th, beginning or end for assessment

12. Post It • Advantages • 1- Anonymous –makes students comfortable answering\ • 2- Students up moving around and participating • 3- Quick was to pre-assess • Disadvantages • 1- Wouldn’t know who knows the content and who doesn’t • 2- Wouldn’t know if all students were actually participating • 3- Classroom could get chaotic and out of hand/can’t control what people like • Materials needed: Post it notes and poster boards if you choose

13. Assessment • Negative Toss: • -Write on paper or discuss in class the difference in how students felt when writing and crumpled up paper and threw it at instructor • -Make a list of positive things to concentrate on instead of the negatives in life • Self-Esteem Builder: • -Write a paragraph describing how they felt about the comments and if they learned any new positive things about themselves • - Write a paragraph describing how it felt looking for a positive attributes in the peers and how felt about sharing those with peers and writing