PO620: Enhancing School Readiness Skills Through a Mindfulness-Based Intervention

  • PMD: 4,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. gain knowledge of school readiness skills with which students may need additional support;
  2. gain awareness of an easily accessible mindfulness based intervention; and
  3. recognize potential benefits to, and barriers of, using mindfulness based interventions with younger elementary students.

Description

Many students arrive to kindergarten struggling with school readiness. Soles of the Feet (SOF) was used with kindergarten students to target school readiness skills. Outcomes are limitations are discussed.

Presenter(s)

Caitlin J. Moen, MS, River Bend Education District
Chip Panahon, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Rayna Yaeger, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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