Teaching Mindfulness in Schools

Stories and Exercises for All Ages and Abilities

Penny Moon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351700078
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Teaching Mindfulness in Schools is a practical teaching toolkit for educators and all professionals concerned with the social and emotional wellbeing of children. The book offers clear introductions to the many aspects and benefits of mindfulness for young people, as well as a wealth of practical guidance and tools to support the teaching of mindfulness in the classroom. Key features include: a range of stimulus materials including artwork and poems to read one-on-one with a child or for whole-class teaching; lesson plans, worksheets and colouring sheets to support a huge range of activity types including physical, creative and sensory exercises so that there is material to suit all the children you work with; audio recordings of guided mindfulness exercises for use in the classroom, narrated by the author and available to purchasers via the Speechmark website. Penny Moon is the founder of A Quiet Place, with nearly three decades of experience in workshop facilitation, teaching, emotional and behaviour development, psychotherapy, complimentary medicine, educational therapeutics and child, parent and family support.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. A children's story
• 2. Script-gathering awareness
• 3. What is Mindfulness?
• 4. Meditation
• 5. Self-knowledge
• 6. Well-being
• 7. The brain
• 8. Mindful thinking
• 9. Multi-sensory
• 10. Mindfulness–visual
• 11. Mindfulness–auditory
• 12. Mindfulness–kinaesthetic
• 13. Mindful tasting and smelling
• 14. Emotions
• 15. Emotional intelligence
• 16. Breathing
• 17. Mindful exercise
• 18. Teaching activities for Mindfulness
• 19. Appendices
• 20. Mindfulness sessions
• 21. Mindfulness poem
• References