Personal & social development // Self-Regulation & Resilience
Choosing the Right Coping Strategy
Understand that different situations require different coping strategies — what works for anger might not work for sadness, and what helps at school might be different from what helps at home
Quick check
Can the learner recognise that when they're angry they need to do something physical like walk around, but when they're worried they need to talk it through — rather than using the same approach for every difficult feeling?
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Topic // Mastery
What mastery looks like
- Name at least two different coping strategies and explain when each one is most useful
- Choose an appropriate strategy based on the specific situation and emotion
- Reflect on a time a strategy didn't work and explain what they might try instead
Topic // Map
Where this fits
- RequiredMust come first
- HelpfulHelps, but not essential
Before this
3 topics- Simple Calming StrategiesRequired
Self-Regulation & Resilience // Ages 5 to 7
Different coping strategies builds on knowing basic calming strategies
- Vocabulary: resilience and selfRequired
Self-Regulation & Resilience // Ages 7 to 10
Distinguishing different coping strategies requires the vocabulary of regulation, triggers, and distress
Emotional Literacy // Ages 7 to 9
Choosing coping strategies benefits from reading body-emotion signals
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Choosing the Right Coping Strategy
Ages 7 to 9 // Concept
Leads to
2 topics- Resilience and Bouncing BackRequired
Self-Regulation & Resilience // Ages 9 to 11
Resilience builds on having multiple coping strategies
- Good Stress and Bad StressRequired
Self-Regulation & Resilience // Ages 11 to 12
Advanced self-regulation depends on earlier foundational self-regulation
Topic // Standards
Curriculum standards
- IB PYP Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSPE) Scope and Sequence
- PSPE-ID-CU-P2-7
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