Mindful Students:
Bringing Mindfulness in the Classroom Children and teachers share more time together than what a parent would in a day. Teachers often hear the stories that arise in homes, experiences of trips and the simple day to day living circumstances in a household. Many times children are faced at a young age to deal with broken families, failure in an assessment or simply forgetting their stationary at home. Children become frustrated and put a strain on themselves causing changes in behavior and learning is affected. This in return has made education change over the years since psychologists had explained the learning process of a child to the actual studying of the brain and how it functions. Behaviors, learning traits and knowledge we share with students and teachers has become more open to understand how an adult can help a child
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(2009, updated 2015). Jean Piaget. Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html , “Children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment.” However, educators had observed that stress levels were at a high point amongst children who hadn’t reached the stages of adulthood. Searching to find assistance in this area, the topic on Mindfulness was brought to light. As introduced in the Guided Mindfulness Meditation: Practices with Jon Kabat-Zinn About the author. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.mindfulnesscds.com/pages/about-the-author, “Dr. Kabat-Zinn's research between 1979 and 2002 focused on mind/body interactions for healing, on various clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain and/or stress-related disorders, on the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the brain and how it processes emotions, particularly under stress, and on the immune