Date post: | 01-Dec-2014 |
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Maximising Mindful Learning: An Innovative Mindfulness Intervention Improves Elementary Students’ Quarterly Grades
Dr Laura Bakosh, Dr. Renee Snow, Dr. Jutta Tobias and Janice Houlihan (Collaboration project: Sofia University, Innerexplorer.org, Cranfield University)
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• Quasi-experiment in 2 non-private US elementary schools • 93 third-graders participated in daily 10-minute “MBSEL”
(Mindfulness-Based Social and Emotional Learning) practice • 98 students were in (waitlist) control group • MBSEL practice was modelled on MBSR method • All practice sessions had been tailored to school settings & had been
pre-recorded in audio format
• After 3 months, participating students’ grades in reading & science improved statistically significantly
• 4 other grades did not change significantly • Problem behaviour incidents in participating classrooms decreased • Teachers reportedly benefited from the mindfulness practice also • No prior teacher training in mindfulness
was needed – • This may be cost effective for
resource-constrained non-private schools
• No changes to classroom curriculum were required –
• The short daily practice may be easy to integrate into school operations
• Follow-up research underway currently to ascertain subject-specific effect of MBSEL training &/or other boundary effects of the observed findings.
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