![]() The curriculum is intended to be taught to children ages 7 to 10+, but can be tailored for use with younger and older kids. The Superflex Curriculum was designed to be used only after students have practiced being a “social detective”. Superflex empowers and motivates students to self-regulate-reducing meltdowns and anxiety as students develop their own inner superhero.Ĭhildren with diagnoses who respond well to Superflex teachings often have autism levels 1 and 2, ADHD, social communication disorders, and others.įirst, teach You are a Social Detective! to help kids develop a solid foundation of social awareness so they can get the most out of using Superflex teachings. the Unthinkables) helps students learn about their own behavior in a non-threatening way. Depicting behaviors as cartoon characters (a.k.a. Superflex provides a fun forum in which they can explore their challenges and identify ways to modify their thoughts and behavior in different settings. Many children (with and without diagnoses) have difficulty regulating their behavior. Why people around the world are using Superflex Superflex and his sidekick dog, Bark, go on their first mission to try to save the citizens of Social Town from the wrath of unflexible thinking brought on by the Unthinkables. The children enter Superflex’s hometown, Social Town, and learn about the cast of sneaky Unthinkables who are trying to invade the brains of everyone who lives there. Introductory Storybook: Superflex Takes on Rock Brain and the Team of Unthinkables, is a 21-page storybook that tells the story of how Superflex came to be a superhero. The curriculum outlines the powers of each of the 14 Unthinkables and teaches strategies to help students subdue each Unthinkable as it invades their brains. ![]() Superflex helps them take on the Team of Unthinkables* (we are officially changing Unthinkables to UnthinkaBots over the course of 2021-22), cartoon-like characters who embody different behaviors and challenges such as Rock Brain, who makes people get stuck on their own ideas, and Glassman, who makes people have huge upset reactions to small problems. Kids learn they each have Superflex (a flexible-thinking superhero) inside their brains. ![]() Superflex Curriculum: The 106-page curriculum contains lessons, activities, character profiles, and materials to create a personalized Superflex Superhero Training Academy for your students. Please spend time teaching You are a Social Detective! before using the Superflex Curriculum with kids. IMPORTANT: The first book in the Superflex series is You are a Social Detective!, which builds social awareness-the foundation of self-regulation. The students respond very well to the cartoon character like basis.Looking for an engaging way to teach social awareness and self-regulation? Superflex, to the rescue! Kids around the world are having fun learning strategies and practicing new skills to boost their “Superflex powers,” so they don’t realize they’re improving their self-regulation and flexible-thinking abilities! (New to Superflex? See what it’s all about in this short article.) There are times where I see students struggling with a problem or are frustrated, and I can simply say, "how can you defeat Rock Brain right now". This was a great lesson to have the students complete early on in the fall. Next, the students were given their visual journals and asked to draw two situations where Rock Brain was in their heads and how they defeated him. I wrote our strategies to defeat Rock Brain on the whiteboard for the visual students to see. Think about others and change your thinking to match theirs. Take a deep breath and remember that being apart of a group means that you have to be flexible and cannot always have your way. looking at your situation and understanding that there may be another way to solve your problem Once the book was read, we discussed the strategies given in the book as well as came up with some of our own. It also includes different strategies that the students can use to defeat Rock Brain. The story provides the students with a simple understanding of Rock Brain so that they can easily relate to being "stuck" on a simple problem. Rock Brain does not allow for good problem solving and will only try one solution. Rock Brain causes us to focus on one thing and will not let us negotiate with other people. The book also introduced different "unthinkables", however places its focus on a specific character, Rock Brain. The book introduced Superflex and the idea of every person being a 'superflexible' thinker. To begin this lesson, I read "Superflex Takes on Rock Brain and the Team of Unthinkables" to my students.
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