Building Safer Communities - Peace by Peace National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign
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Day 02

This strategy, sponsored by the American School Counselor Association, is an effective way to prevent anger from leading to violence. You can also incorporate such important skills as emotional literacy and stress management, as such skills help kids to keep a cool head when facing a potentially violent situation. Click here for lesson plans and activities designed for this day by the American Counselor Association.

Here are some additional ways to teach anger management techniques...

  • Sponsor a decorate-a-door contest on ways to handle stress or manage anger for homeroom classes.
  • Run role-plays to illustrate positive ways to deal with specific situations, such as being bullied or having someone break into one's locker.
  • Hold a class discussion on ways to "cool down" when angered.
  • Create drawings, posters or other signs showing that anger is a natural and normal part of life -- but violence is not!
  • Ask students to write anonymous essays on how anger hurt them and read the aloud to the class so students will understand what can happen if they don't manage their anger appropriately.
  • Use physical education classes to demonstrate healthy ways exercise can be used to release anger and stress.
  • Have older students create children's books that demonstrate positive ways to manage anger. Then read them to elementary school students or donate them to the local library.
  • Review poetry and other literature that examines anger and how it can be released in healthy ways.
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