Do You Think Educators Should Consider Teaching Conflict Resolution Or Anger Management In The Early Grades?

I was the first grade to have it in my school and it made my grade alot better off in bullying cases than other grades

Ideally, NO. If the world were as it should be, this is something that all children would have learned at home. However, since most parents have stopped teaching their children anything important once their kids are potty trained, I suppose it falls on the school teachers once again to make up for lousy home teachers (i.e. parents).

I do think that this should be taught in the earliest grade possible due to all the conflict issues that our students face everyday on campus and off campus. Teaching resolutions, I think started with the D.A.R.E. program but these days conflict is everywhere for students. This should be taught and implemented in the state standards.

Some schools DO teach this in the early grades and also teach peer mediation; the problem, as we discovered my daughter landed in junior high school, is that once a child is in 8th grade or thereabouts, all that they’ve learned in lower grades is not enforced. Small good to teach a child other ways of handling frustration, anger, and bullying, if, in junior high school, it’s “anything goes.”
By all means, teach this in lower grades – and never STOP teaching it!

They should not only consider it, they should teach it.

yes! very much! a lot of youngsters get into fights nowadays….gangs, cliques, random people bullying others!

Yes because its not like when we were growing up, argue maybe a fight and you were friends 10min later. Todays kids its fight, argue and god forbid shoot each other. Kids need to be taught how to control their anger and show self control out in society something some kids lack nowadays they see violence on tv, in the homes and in society so yes they need the training.

Our school system does teach this in earlier grades. My son just completed second grade and had some education on both.

I believe these concepts as well as life strategies,like critical thinking should be mandatory curriculum, as a former student of the public education system, I was in the MGM andGATE programs ,which were for the brighter students and it is disgraceful that we were taught critical thinking skills and encouraged to think for ourselves and given higher expectations, if the whole schoo(student body) had been given the same opportunities were we given ,,the student body would have risen to the challenge,because children do live up to both positive and negative expectations placed upon them including being labelled as gifted,average and below average.

I believe that we all have a responsibility to educate on these subjects. It needs to start with the parents first but I feel that it’s never to early to educate or future leaders the difference of right and wrong and that morality needs to be increased in our youth. So educatation should start as early as a childs comprehension will allow. Structure and repeative re-enforcement no matter where it comes from is a plus. Teach the children new and safe ways to curb their anger and positive ways to resolve conflicts.

Absolutely! The more social skills we give our children the more successful they will be in all aspects of heir life. The younger they are the more we can teach without having to “reteach”.

yes

not only should they teach it, they should live it. Also, role playing helps the other individual understand what it is the other individual goes through so in case a situation ever comes up then problems would be prevented from happening.

No-considering what is on the daily schedule that has to get done now in a school day. Other things have to take priority.

Educators should absolutely teach both of those in the early years of a child’s education. Without any learning on those subjects, many kids will be out of control in high school and they won’t now how to react to certain situations in the real world.

It’s important, yes, and we all need to learn these behaviors. But using class time for it is simply not effective for the average child. This should happen on an incident-by incident basis, which is the most effective way for children to learn social issues anyways.
An “anger class” generally deals with the issues in too abstract a manner for young kids to really absorb. The real world education that is needed needs to come from the real world, not from a book or lesson plan.
Turning a playground incident into a lesson, or noticing positive ways of handling a disagreement is the best way to teach.

DEFINITELT, because many kids go through such emotions. Many of them not knowing that they have such problems, or they dont know how to handle it. This can serve as a guide while also getting knowledge.

It would be good. It is too bad that parents aren’t teaching their kids certain things at home. I almost think etiquette should be taught in schools. More and more parents are letting schools teach their kids everything rather than having a hand in education. Do you think that providing even more life skills in schools would become a crutch for more parents? O r do you think that if school doesn’t do it no one will? Just wondering.

Yes, I think educators should teach conflict resolution in elementary school; and should teach anger management in the secondary schools

YES, THEY SHOULD TEACH BOTH

I think teachers should learn anger mangement and conflict resolution in their early years…..

teaching anger management at an early age is a good idea. the sooner the better. even young children get angry . start teaching children when they are young before anger turns into a problem.

Yes, Definitely!

I definitely think they should teach this in schools in early grades, with all the disfunctional families and economical problems, children need to know how direct their feelings and find different outlets for their feelings other than anger and violence.

DEFINETELY. It will save marriages. Prevent wars. At the least it will spare the child from a painful future life where she/he will be too frustrated to handle things properly (as it often can be).
Will help fight against so much hatred that pours in our societies nowadays.

Conflict resolution. As a professional working in the field of Corrections, many Offenders enter into the system because of Lack of Discipline, a Stable Family foundation and inadequate social skills. They react spontaneously without considering the outcome or what the results of their actions could be. The lack of Social skills particularly being able to talk through problems has a major impact on the end result….Prison. If we as a society begin teaching or equipting our Youth with these necessary tools In my opinion they could resolve alot of issues before they go to far.

IT NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT AND ENFORCED IN ALL GRADES BEGINNING IN THE EARLY YEARS. OF COURSE HOME LIFE HAS A DEFINITE AFFECT ON THESE TEACHINGS.

Absolutely…and I think they do. They may not have classes dedicated to that sole subject but in the younger grades a large part of the teacher’s responsibility is to teach basic social skills. Resolving interpersonal conflict as well as managing one’s temper are vital elements to these lessons.
Do I think there need to be classes bearing those specific titles? No… why label something with a label that will not be understood? Should these skills be part of a ciriculum? Most certainly!

Yes, and I think they should include parents and ask that they participate. It makes a really positive impact on children when both parents and teachers are on the same page. Many issues happen “on the playground” because children spend a lot of their day in school interacting with other children so conflicts are a fact of life. The sooner they know how to deal with conflict and manage anger the better!

yep.