Cool Kids & Keep Cool Set Managing Anger in Schoolby Paula Galey

Most of us find ourselves having to deal with anger in the classroom at some time or other. Cool Kids for junior to middle classes and Keep Cool for middle to senior primary classes provide teachers with practical guidance and strategies for helping students to understand what anger is, where it comes from and how to deal with it. It focuses on assisting students to develop a repertoire of responses for managing feelings of anger before they get out of control. Students will learn to understand what triggers anger and also to understand that they can make choices about how to respond when they feel angry. They will develop an understanding of the difference between good anger and bad anger; learn to pay attention to the physiological and psychological processes they undergo at the point of becoming angry; and learn skills to calm themselves down.

The material in this set can be used:

• With all students as part of the health curriculum
• By specialist staff such as guidance counsellors, or behaviour support workers on an individual basis with at-risk students
• In peer-tutoring schemes using senior students in life skills classes with at-risk juniors
• With small groups of at-risk students working with a teacher aide
• By parents or caregivers working with their children in the home

About the Author:Paula Galey (M.Ed. Psych.) has worked with students who have learning and behavioural needs in primary, intermediate and secondary schools. She is the author of Cool Kids a best selling anger management resource for younger primary students.

[CODE: UF-361-660]

[Extent: 2 Paperback books, approx 60 pages each partly photocopiable]

[Author: Paula Galey; Suitability: 6 12+]