How Attitude, Self-Talk, and Changing Our Thinking Helps Us Solve Problems

A series of 5 guidance lessons on the power of our thoughts, attitude, social skills, and problem solving was provided to York 3rd graders over the last few months.  Each lesson taught the importance of changing our thinking to solve problems. The lessons taught skills and strategies to calm down from strong feelings, and how to discern between thoughts that are helpful and thoughts that are not helpful. The lessons also provided a fun way for students to label the challenge they were facing in order to understand how best to overcome it.  After these lessons 93% of York third graders indicated they could tell someone how to change their thinking to help them solve a problem.