(Health Printable) Self-Management Bookmark: A Teaching Tool to Help Students Pause, Reflect, and Act
A meaningful Health Printable helps students build self-management skills (SHAPE America Standard #7)!
I’m excited to share this new health printable with you! As I’ve been upgrading our Health Skills Toolkit, I wanted students to have an activity that helps them understand the self-management (SHAPE America Standard #7) health skills and be something they can use on a daily basis IRL to reinforce healthy habits. Enter this printable bookmark!
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How This Self-Awareness Bookmark Works
I love this bookmark because of its simplicity in reinforcing the Pause, Reflect, and Act skill cues. With a STOP sign on the top, it reminds students to pause before reacting or acting on impulse. The second step of the bookmark has two elements to boost self-reflection:
#1: To Calm Down (if necessary) - A Customized 4, 3, 2, 1
To help students regulate, they can write down things they can name and identify. For example, I may write down: 4 - book I’ve read this year, 3 - hockey players I like, 2 - plants in my garden, and 1 - running memory that makes me smile.
The great thing is that each student gets to pick things to recall that bring them peace and joy.
#2: Three prompts to help build awareness of what’s happening
What am I feeling?
What’s actually going on?
Who or what can help me in this moment?
Then that final step is to act with intention. Hopefully, after taking a moment to calm down and assess what’s happening, students can then make an intentional choice.
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I love this bookmark because it’s all about building self-awareness. And in my opinion, being self-aware is the key to students being able to practice Standard #7: Self-Management/Health-Enhancing Behaviors (and ultimately living a healthy life!).
I can’t wait to see how you use it with your students!