Self-Determination Strategies Toolkit
An easy-to-use approach aimed at transforming children’s attitudes from helpless to confident!
What is in the toolkit?
When using the strategies, you’ll notice children having increased engagement and enthusiasm. Each strategy is evidence-informed and can have a profound impact on children’s lives today and in the future.
How to use these strategies:
When working with a child, or helping them with their homework, pick one of the 10 strategies that you think will help them make progress. Do you think the strategy might help them achieve a goal they have set for themselves? Will the strategy help them solve a problem?
Reflect back to them the details of what they did during their time with you. What did they do right? Why are you proud of them?
Reinforce after they’ve learned a strategy by praising the child for what they accomplished.
How did these ideas come about?
As an occupational therapist and teacher for thirty years, I noticed many children waiting around for others to help them – at school, at the playground, at home, and in the community. Instead of taking an active role in their learning and play time, they appeared distracted and unhappy, with little interest in socializing with their friends and families. Why was this happening? Was there something that could be done to help these youngsters? My observations led me to read hundreds of scholarly research articles and eventually led to my own doctoral work on self-determination.
Order Today!
You can order The Self-Determination Strategies Toolkit today to receive a bundle of all ten strategies, with reproducible worksheets. Also included are ten superhero badges for each time they’ve successfully achieved what they set out to do. And for those interested in research, there are three pages of scholarly articles listed so that you can read up on the latest strategies to support children.