Helping Teachers Turn Distracted Kids into Focused Learners
A simple attention training system that shows students how to:
overcome distraction
sustain concentration
and take ownership of their learning.
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A Simple System to Improve Classroom Concentration
This self-paced course gives you everything you need to create meaningful behaviour change in your classroom this school year.
Designed to fit easily into a busy curriculum, each activity can be introduced in just 2–3 minutes a day.
Through six short, practical video modules, you'll learn exactly how to teach each activity, introduce it with confidence, and build lasting attention habits through simple daily routines.
Alongside the course, you'll receive a complete 24-week classroom roadmap showing you exactly when to introduce each activity, when to revisit key concepts, and how to develop concentration over time. This carefully sequenced plan provides the structure and support students need to gradually take ownership of their attention and learning.
What's Included
6 guided video modules
Comprehensive Teacher Guide with resources and activities
Complete 24-week planning roadmap
Student Attention Journal with printable worksheets
Perfect For
Teachers of Grades 4 and above
Teachers looking to improve attention, concentration and classroom behaviour
Educators who want practical tools—not more theory
Train attention. Change behaviour.
A practical collection of classroom routines designed to help students sharpen attention, increase concentration, and develop more independent learning habits.
Inspired by ancient concentration practices and adapted for modern classrooms, this resource combines simple classroom routines with powerful attention strategies.
At the centre of the resource is a 22-minute training video that takes you through a set of proven routines that you can use with your class immediately.
The resource includes:
• A 22-minute Attention Training Classroom Routines video
• A printable PDF implementation guide
• 10 practical classroom focus activities
• The “Attention Landing Pad” strategy
• Reflection and awareness routines for everyday lessons
• Ready-to-use strategies for transitions, lesson starts, and focus resets
The routines and activities are designed to fit naturally into everyday classroom practice and can be used during lesson starters, transitions, tutor time, intervention sessions, SEL lessons, wellbeing lessons, or whole-class teaching.
These strategies help students take greater ownership of their learning — because when we train attention, we change behaviour.
Best for: Grades 4+
Emotion, Behavior & Loss of Control
A ready-to-teach narrative poetry unit exploring behavior, emotional regulation, identity, and the moments that shape how students see themselves and others.
Across a sequence of connected poems, students follow Nathaniel Tzao, a student whose reputation often arrives before his story. As events unfold, students explore how emotion influences behavior, how patterns develop over time, and how repeated reactions can begin to feel like identity.
Perfect for classrooms exploring behavior, self-awareness, empathy, and the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and actions.
This complete unit develops:
• Inference and analysis
• Perspective and empathy
• Poetry interpretation
• Emotional awareness and reflection
• Creative and analytical writing
What's Included
• 20 original narrative poems
• Student and teacher versions
• 16 full lesson plans
• Reading and noticing activities
• Close analysis and writing tasks
• Creative writing activities
• Unit overview and curriculum map
Best for: Grades 7–9
A powerful poetry unit that helps students explore the difference between who someone is and the story that has been built around them.
Please note: Emotion, Behavior & Loss of Control is the central theme explored throughout this unit. The narrative poem sequence and resource files are titled That Kid Has History.
New to these lessons?
Try a free sample from the series: https://teachattentionlikeamonk.com/emotion-behavior-and-loss-of-control
Distraction, Boredom and Disconnection
A ready-to-teach poetry unit exploring distraction, boredom, and the ways students can become disconnected from their tasks.
Across five original poems, students investigate different patterns of attention—from drifting into thought and losing track of time, to becoming absorbed in emotion, distraction, or mental noise. Through symbolism, figurative language, and discussion, students begin to recognize how attention moves and how that movement influences behavior.
Perfect for classrooms exploring focus, self-awareness, learning habits, and the challenges of staying present in an increasingly distracting world.
This complete unit develops:
• Poetry analysis and interpretation
• Figurative language and symbolism
• Creative writing
• Reflection and self-awareness
• Understanding attention and distraction
What's Included
• 5 complete, ready-to-teach lessons
• 5 original contemporary poems
• 10 creative writing tasks
• Success criteria and teacher models
• Full lesson plans and teaching notes
Poems Included
• In Plain Sight
• Alan
• Red Lights
• Screensaver Mode
• The Investigation
Best for: Grades 7–9
A practical poetry unit that helps students explore what happens when attention drifts—and how greater awareness can help us reconnect with what matters.
Please note: Distraction, Boredom & Disconnection is the central theme explored throughout this unit. The poetry sequence and resource files are titled Sorry, What Was That?
New to these lessons?
Try a free sample from the unit: https://teachattentionlikeamonk.com/boredom-and-disconnection
Teacher Training for Schools
Helping Teachers Turn Distraction Into Focus
We offer face-to-face and online training for schools and teaching teams.
We aim to sharpen student attention, increase classroom concentration and help students to develop independent learning habits that they can use long after school has finished.
Training includes:
Direct attention training activities for the classroom
Strategies to strengthen concentration and sustained focus
Practical systems to help students manage distraction independently.
Train Attention. Change Behavior.
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