Anger Management for the Education Sector

• Are you frustrated, annoyed, irritated, temperamental, angry, aggressive, hostile, stressed,  bottling up emotions, disillusioned, depressed or have low self-esteem?
• Do you get drawn emotionally into learners backchat, and take things personally?
• Are you a classroom shouter?
• Do you feel helpless, dis-respected, let down, not appreciated?
• Do you find that you cannot reason with the learner?
• Is the learner difficult to talk to and control?

Anger management addresses these issues and offers a great number of benefits for all.

Typical scenarios where anger or stress management helps within Education:

• Conflict in the classroom
• Conflict between staff
• Dealing with angry students
• Dealing with angry staff
• Dealing with angry parents
• Poor work performance or under-achieving
• Addictive behaviour e.g. drugs, alcohol,
• Low self-esteem
• Arguments, fall outs, bickering, frustration, annoyance, irritation
• Bad tempers and rages
• Getting into trouble more frequently
• Truancy, bullying, fighting, vandalism
• Students at-risk of exclusion
• Angry students that are getting worse
• Teachers whose nerves are on edge
• Teachers who act inappropriately
• Teachers wanting to leave the Profession
• Ill-health

Managing anger is about being able to express it in a controlled, positive and appropriate way and being able to calm down in order to make the right choices. Remember that it is important to remain professional at all times. Make your anger work for you without the emotional impact.

Benefits of Anger Management:

• Get on better with others
• Manage conflict better
• Feel happier and calmer
• Enjoy better health and feel less stressed
• Become more creative and productive
• Improved relationships
• Prevent yourself doing things you may later regret
• Be able to express anger appropriately and stay in control

There are several programmes that are available for teaching staff that can be run as a full-day or half-day workshop or as 2hr seminars. Speak to us about your needs and we will find a solution for you.

Outline:

• How to manage your own anger
• How to defuse anger in the classroom
• Tools to manage an angry learner
• Use of constructive dialogue
• When to intervene and when to back down
• Students feelings and why they react
• How teachers can recognise their own anger triggers and act appropriately
• Consequences of anger expressed inappropriately
• Strategies of anger and conflict management
• Improving language and communication to achieve a win/win situation
• Listening skills
• Having a practical set of anger management 'tools' to use for yourself

Stress Management for Educators

We offer stress management workshops or seminars for Educators. For details of content please take a look at our pages on stress management.

Anger Management for Learners

We can run a short workshop for Learners on anger management that equips them to calm down, manage their anger and other emotions and to be responsible for their actions.

Alternatively we can do an assembly talk in a period about anger and anger management

Does the angry learner have mood swings, tempers, bad behaviour, attitude, lack of co-operation?

• This learner is using their anger in a way that is not helpful for them and has a negative impact.
• They may be constantly getting into trouble.
• They blame everyone else for the problems.
• Their education may be suffering.
• They may be facing exclusion from school or classes.
• They may be stressed, depressed, going down the wrong path.
• There is a vicious circle that keeps repeating as they become more frustrated and feel unheard.

This learner will benefit with a course of anger management which will help provide the necessary support to control their anger, aggression or temper; tools to calm down and cope, ways to manage stress at home and at school or college and how to have better relationships with others.

Topics Include:

• What anger management is all about
• What are the benefits of anger management?
• Responsibility - choice - consequences
• Feelings
• Values
• Communication differences
• What our anger is all about
• Old brain - new brain thinking
• Empathy
• Sources of anger
• Triggers of anger
• Assertiveness, aggression and non-assertive styles
• Calming down strategies
• Rules and tools of anger management to use
• Controlling anger in our lives
• Anger and stress
• Using anger positively

Anger Management for Parents

In addition to anger management for learners, we offer an introductory programme for parents which has always been useful for those parents that attended. Sadly only few parents take this up and we believe part of the reason is they don’t want to risk feeling they have got it ‘wrong’ in their parenting skills. The reality is that we only give tools and provide a space to exchange ideas and experiences. It is not about judging who has done what.

This benefit to this is that it supports the child as the parents will have a better idea of what impact they may have on their child and how equally they can manage their own anger in order to be able to manage their child’s anger. They will also learn some useful tips and how to set healthy boundaries.

This can be offered as a two hour session early evening.

Behaviour Management in the Classroom

Here we look at helping a learner individual to modify their unacceptable behaviour This behaviour often gets the individual into trouble, has an effect on another and if done often enough, becomes a bad habit. When it is a bad habit, it becomes a case of act first, think afterwards. Eventually the individual with the bad behaviour cannot see or doesn’t admit that they have a problem or that they are impacting others. This can be run as a workshop or as a seminar depending on your requirements.

Behaviour problems include:

• Disrupting others in class
• Not obeying instructions
• Breaking school rules
• Disrespect
• Damaging property
• Smoking or substance abuse
• Bullying
• Fighting
• Arguing

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