Guidelines: Dealing with Aggression and encouraging cooperation
Guidelines: Dealing with Aggression and encouraging cooperation
- Present yourself as a nonaggressive model/person
- Example: Do not use threats of aggression to win obedience.
- Ensure that your classroom has enough space and appropriate materials for every student
- Example: Prevent overcrowding. Remove or confiscate materials that encourage personal aggression, such as toy guns.
- Make sure students/children do not profit from aggressive behaviors
- Examples:
- Comfort the victim of aggression and ignore the aggressor
- Use reasonable punishment, especially with older students/children
- Examples:
- Teach directly about positive social behaviors
- Examples:
- Discuss the effects of antisocial actions such as stealing bullying, and spreading rumors
- Incorporate lessons on social ethics/morality through reading selection and discussion
- Examples:
- Provide opportunities for learning tolerance and cooperation.
- Example: Emphasize similarities among people rather than the differences
- Coach victimized children to be more assertive
- Examples:
- Provide models and encouragement – role play appropriate self-defense.
- Build self-esteem by building skills and knowledge
- Examples:
Reference: Woolfolk, A. “Educational Psychology” 8th edition.