Brain breaks are an effective way of changing the physical or mental focus of an individual student (Christian & Weslake, 2015). All students should have kinaesthetic breaks from time to time, but some individual students need it more often than others, especially my target student. The efficiency of learning increases when breaks are instilled into an individual’s daily routine. There are a lot of different ways to incorporate mental and physical breaks into my student’s daily routine. It is important to explain the purpose of the breaks and set behavior expectations and guidelines for his breaks beforehand. Breaks should only last about 5-minutes. When I observe my student loosing focus and becoming restless I will give him a thumbs up. Thumbs
