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# Self Management - Affective Skills

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### KEY 

📽 Video      📜 Worksheet      🤔 Activity/ Thinking Routine     🔗 Website / Link

### Practise focus and concentration 

[Headspace is a great app to help students practice mindfulness](https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app) 🔗🤔

[Use Forest, Stay Focussed to stay on task. Use either the Chrome Extension on the app.](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-stay-focused-be-pr/kjacjjdnoddnpbbcjilcajfhhbdhkpgk?hl=en) 🔗🤔

[Focus and Concentration Video (Crash Course - Study Skills)](https://youtu.be/L_2JaFnkZ4o) 📽

[School "Two Playlists for the Classroom"](https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/two-playlists-for-classroom-use) or create your own! 🤔🔗

[The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-benefits-of-a-good-night-s-sleep-shai-marcu) 🔗📜🤔📽

[How to stay calm under pressure - Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-avoid-choking-under-pressure-noa-kageyama-and-pen-pen-chen) 📽📜🤔🔗

### Practise strategies to develop mental focus

[TED Ed Lesson-The importance of focus.](http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-importance-of-focus-richard-st-john) 📽🤔📜🔗

[Use Forest, Stay Focussed to stay on task. Use either the Chrome Extension on the app.](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-stay-focused-be-pr/kjacjjdnoddnpbbcjilcajfhhbdhkpgk?hl=en) 🔗🤔

[Focus and Concentration Video (Crash Course - Study Skills)](https://youtu.be/L_2JaFnkZ4o) 🤔🔗📜📽

[School "Two Playlists for the Classroom"](https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/two-playlists-for-classroom-use) 🔗🤔

### Practise strategies to overcome distractions

[WikiHow - How to Avoid Distractions While Studying](http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Distractions-While-Studying) 🔗🤔

[Use Forest, Stay Focussed to stay on task. Use either the Chrome Extension on the app.](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-stay-focused-be-pr/kjacjjdnoddnpbbcjilcajfhhbdhkpgk?hl=en) 🔗🤔

[Managing Distractions with Mario](http://digitalgems.weebly.com/blog/managing-distractions-with-mario) 🤔🔗

[Focus and Concentration Video (Crash Course - Study Skills)](https://youtu.be/L_2JaFnkZ4o) 🔗🤔📽📜

[Procrastination Video (Crash Course Study Skills)](https://youtu.be/x2y_SLOvOvw) 📜📽🤔🔗

[School "Two Playlists for the Classroom"](https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/two-playlists-for-classroom-use) 🔗🤔

[YouTube: Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_2JaFnkZ4o\&t=1s) 📽

### Practise being aware of body–mind connections

[Use the app or website SuperBetter to develop body-mind connections, as well as to improve self-management.](https://www.superbetter.com/) 🔗🤔

[School "Two Playlists for the Classroom"](https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/two-playlists-for-classroom-use) 🔗🤔

[The Tempered Learner (on self-regulation)](https://sjtylr.net/2017/10/21/tempered-learner/) 🔗

[This Is What Exercise Does to Your Brain](https://elemental.medium.com/this-is-what-exercise-does-to-your-brain-7068b6a1af81) 🔗🤔

[HeadSpace](https://www.youtube.com/c/headspace/videos) 🔗🤔

### Demonstrate persistence and perseverance

[The power of persistence, creativity, and respect | Matthew Griffin | TEDxTacoma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlP8Zig_ksM) 📽

[TED Ed: How to practice effectively...for just about anything](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-practice-effectively-for-just-about-anything-annie-bosler-and-don-greene) 📽🤔📜

[The Tempered Learner (on self-regulation)](https://sjtylr.net/2017/10/21/tempered-learner/) 🔗

[Procrastination Video (Crash Course Study Skills)](https://youtu.be/x2y_SLOvOvw) 📽

### Practise delaying gratification

[Procrastination Video (Crash Course Study Skills)](https://youtu.be/x2y_SLOvOvw) 📽

[TED Talk: The Marshmallow Test and Why We Want Instant Gratification: Silvia Barcellos at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012](https://youtu.be/voF8B-Jr0mA) 📽

[Use the app 30/30 to help stay on task. Complete activities before moving onto a break/reward](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/30-30/id505863977?mt=8) 🔗🤔

[Use Forest, Stay Focussed to stay on task. Use either the Chrome Extension on the app.](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-stay-focused-be-pr/kjacjjdnoddnpbbcjilcajfhhbdhkpgk?hl=en) 🔗🤔

[The Tempered Learner (on self-regulation)](https://sjtylr.net/2017/10/21/tempered-learner/) 🔗🤔

### Practise strategies to overcome impulsiveness and anger

[Visible Thinking Routine - Reporter's Notebook "A routine for separating fact and feeling"](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Reporters%20Notebook_0.pdf) 🔗🤔📜

[Use SuperBetter to help tackle emotional difficulties](http://www.superbetter.com/) 🔗🤔

### Practise strategies to prevent and eliminate bullying

[Cyberbullying Toolkit Standing up, Not Standing By: A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/cyberbullying) 🔗🤔📜

[BrainPop - Video and Quiz about Bullying](https://www.brainpop.com/health/personalhealth/bullying/) 📽🔗

### Practise strategies to reduce stress and anxiety

[Use SuperBetter to help deal with stress, depression and other emotional issues.](http://www.superbetter.com/) 🔗🤔

[Calm - Guided and non-guided meditation. Great sound effects to listen to while studying.](http://www.calm.com/) 🔗🤔

[BrainPop - Video and Quiz about Stress](https://www.brainpop.com/english/studyandreadingskills/stress/) 🔗📽

[TED Ed: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed](https://ed.ted.com/featured/Ge4NK6fZ) 📽 🔗🤔📜

[Headspace](https://www.headspace.com/) 🤔🔗

[Test Anxiety Video (Crash Course - Study Skills)](https://youtu.be/t-9cqaRJMP4) 🔗🤔📜📽

[The Tempered Learner (on self-regulation)](https://sjtylr.net/2017/10/21/tempered-learner/) 🔗🤔

[YouTube: Test Anxiety: Crash Course Study Skills #8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9cqaRJMP4) 📽

[3](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/3-ways-to-cope-with-anxiety-olivia-remes) [ways to cope with anxiety - Olivia Remes](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/3-ways-to-cope-with-anxiety-olivia-remes) 📽🤔🔗📜

[How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-affects-your-brain-madhumita-murgia) 🔗

[HeadSpace](https://www.youtube.com/c/headspace/videos)[How to process your emotions](https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/Fpty6rIW) 🔗🤔

### Practise analysing and attributing causes for failure

[IB: Failure Week](https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=m_0_mypxx_tsm_1412_1_e\&part=2\&chapter=4) 🔗

[IB: Resilence Skills](https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=m_0_mypxx_tsm_1412_1_e\&part=2\&chapter=5) 🔗

[TED Ed: How to learn? From mistakes](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-learn-from-mistakes-diana-laufenberg) 🔗🤔📜📽

[TED Talk: Failure Is Part of Success: Eduardo Zanatta at TEDxBYU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bujIb_sQZvQ\&feature=youtu.be) 📽

[TED Talk: The power of mistakes and failure | Suzi LeVine | TEDxBern](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gv76eEFEgA\&feature=youtu.be) 📽 

[TED TALK Success is scarier than failure | Jemele Hill | TEDxPSU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzITnc7PCE\&feature=youtu.be) 📽

[Failure Checklist](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n87gizGHS5OV3RGwF1vRSV4b656sJip4_9YCAAh7hZw/edit?usp=sharing) 📜🔗

[Learning Log](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k5qPFDUARZ6VJPAVOWnqLP2AIyN2eMk6B1izZ4RidTs/edit?usp=sharing) 📜🔗

### Practise managing self-talk

[The hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=44\&v=u6XAPnuFjJc) 📽

[SuperBetter is a self-care app and website which allows you to deal with emotional issues. It gamifies self-care and gives you a range of strategies to help you with this.](http://www.superbetter.com/) 🔗🤔

[TED Talk: Failure Is Part of Success: Eduardo Zanatta at TEDxBYU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bujIb_sQZvQ\&feature=youtu.be) 🤔🔗📽📜

[The Tempered Learner (on self-regulation)](https://sjtylr.net/2017/10/21/tempered-learner/) 🔗🤔

### Practise positive thinking

[TED TALK Success is scarier than failure | Jemele Hill | TEDxPSU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzITnc7PCE\&feature=youtu.be) 📽

[Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc) 📽

[Benefits of Thinking Positively, and How to Do It](https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-think-positive) 🔗🤔

### Practise “bouncing back” after adversity, mistakes and failures

[Experience Tour - I want to clarify my priorities by learning from first hand experiences.](https://drive.google.com/a/aischool.org/file/d/0B3ZX4a8gtxF4UDE5eXlMcV9Fckk/view?usp=sharing) 🤔🔗📜

[YouTube - TEDxTeen - survive failure and learn from it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ZtPqG7t-A) 📽

[The League of Extradordinary Losers! Article from Scholastic!](http://choices.scholastic.com/story/league-extraordinary-losers) 🔗

[TED Ed: How to learn? From mistakes](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-learn-from-mistakes-diana-laufenberg) 🔗📽📜🤔

[TED Talk: The power of mistakes and failure | Suzi LeVine | TEDxBern](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gv76eEFEgA\&feature=youtu.be) 📽

[Emotional Agility as a Tool to Help Teens Manage Their Feelings](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/02/28/emotional-agility-as-a-tool-to-help-teens-manage-their-feelings/?utm_medium=Email\&utm_source=ExactTarget\&utm_campaign=20180121MindShift\&mc_key=00Q1Y00001oWsAGUA0) 🤔🔗

### Practise “failing well”

[YouTube - InBrief: How Resilience is Built - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University](https://youtu.be/xSf7pRpOgu8) 🔗📽

[IB: Resilence Skills](https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=m_0_mypxx_tsm_1412_1_e\&part=2\&chapter=5) 🔗🤔📜

[TED Ed: How to learn? From mistakes](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-learn-from-mistakes-diana-laufenberg) 🔗📜🤔📽

[Failure Checklist](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n87gizGHS5OV3RGwF1vRSV4b656sJip4_9YCAAh7hZw/edit?usp=sharing) 🤔🔗

### Practise dealing with disappointment and unmet expectations

[Learning Log](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k5qPFDUARZ6VJPAVOWnqLP2AIyN2eMk6B1izZ4RidTs/edit?usp=sharing) 📜🤔

### Practise dealing with change

[Visible Thinking Routine- I used to think, but now I think ](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/I%20Used%20to%20Think%20-%20Now%20I%20Think_1.pdf)🤔🔗📜

[Learning Log](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k5qPFDUARZ6VJPAVOWnqLP2AIyN2eMk6B1izZ4RidTs/edit?usp=sharing) 🔗📜🤔

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