Meditation in the Classroom Presentation

Presentation Objectives
●  By the end of the presentation, you will be able to:
○  Understand what meditation is

Meditation in the Classroom ○  Know the benefits of meditation for students

○  Engage in active discussions of meditation with
students
Lynn Tran ○  Know how to implement meditation in the classroom
Teachers
April 19, 2019

Standards Covered Why is This Presentation Important?

●  National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
(NBPTS)
○  Proposition 5: Teachers are Members of Professional
Communities
●  Teacher Leader Model Standards (TLMS)
○  Domain 3: Promotes Professional Learning for
Continuous Improvement
●  Students are stressed
●  Students carry their home life problems to school
●  Students do not know how to release their stress
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●  We can help with that
●  Active practice of meditation can solve many classroom
problems
●  We just need to know how

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What is Meditation? Which Type of Meditation Will Help YOU?

●  Meditation is both a skill and an experience: a formal exercise to
cultivate awareness and compassion
●  Discuss with your table group which type of meditation will
●  Types of meditation: be helpful for YOUR grade level or classroom
○  Zen meditation: aim is to foster a sense of presence and alertness ●  Why did you choose this type of meditation?
○  Mantra meditation: focus on a mantra where the subtle vibrations
associated with the repeated mantra can encourage positive
change
○  Transcendental meditation: the aim is to transcend thought itself
and experience a state of total awareness in which you are
present, but not focusing on a particular object of thought.

Classroom Meditation
●  Body Scan Meditation
○  Technique is designed to sync
body and mind by performing a
mental scan, from the top of the
head to the end of your toes
○  Best to use when our body is
doing one thing while our mind is
elsewhere
○  In the classroom: when students
are distracted and need to
refocus, take a few minutes to
practice Body Scan Meditation to
regroup students

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Let’s Try It! How Did You Feel?

●  Let’s get crazy first….Turn to your neighbor and tell them your dream
vacation
●  Turn to you partner and share how you felt during the last
○  (The purpose of this is to get your focus somewhere else) few minutes
●  Now, let’s refocus. ●  How do you think students will feel after practicing
○  Close your eyes meditation?
○  Channel your senses
●  How will it help them refocus after something chaotic
■  Smell: What does the room smell like?
■  Hear: What sounds do you hear?
(coming back from recess, an assembly, PE, etc)
■  Feel: What textures do you feel around you?
○  What else are you sensing around you?
○  Allow your brain to focus on those factors

Benefits of Meditation Let Science Prove It

●  Relieves stress and anxiety (Yes! Young children experience stress)
●  More tolerant of children’s behavior and better able to handle it;
●  Students become less worried
●  When they organize how they feel, they are organized overall
●  Students have more purpose in their actions
●  Students become more refreshed and energized;
●  Students are in more control of their emotions and responses;
●  Students have a more positive in outlook
●  Students are able to deal with problems calmly.

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How to Teach Your Students about Meditation Music During Meditation

●  Practicing is one thing
●  Having your students UNDERSTAND why is another
●  Teach several lessons on meditation before practicing Example of
●  Expose them to the different types and how to practice it music to play
●  Make students aware of their feelings before having them during meditation
understand what they are doing with it

How Will This Benefit YOUR Classroom?

●  Discuss in your teams how this will benefit the students in
YOUR classroom?
●  What difficulties have you faced this year that meditation
might help with?
●  How will implementing meditation at the beginning of the
year be impactful?

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