I Can Handle It – Lesson Plan

Help improve your students’ social-emotional competencies!! (self-awareness and self- management) The purpose of this lesson is to encourage students to learn the mantra I CAN HANDLE IT so that it will become an automatic way to handle difficult situations.

By listening to the story and the teacher’s anecdote, and then by writing or dictating a journal entry students will begin to understand the concept of a mantra, and how it can be used to help them maintain their calm and focus while in a difficult situation.