Self-Control Activities for School
Students in school are usually old enough to know about self-control and have a basic understanding that temper tantrums do not get the results they want. The younger the child is, the harder self-control and appropriate behavior are. Even well-behaved children might have trouble with self-control during frustrating or emotional situations. Though parents play a key role in teaching self-control, activities in school can also help students learn and understand appropriate behaviors and self-controlling actions.
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Coloring Activities
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Teachers can employ coloring activities for students with tips on self-controlling actions and appropriate behaviors to get what they want. For example, if the students have problems with anger management and control when angry, teachers might have students color worksheets with pictures of ways to handle anger or deal with anger appropriately or worksheets with both pictures and written tips.
Interactive Online Activities
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Online activities not only can help students understand various anger management or self-control methods, but they can also entertain and amuse the students. Teachers can use games or activities like When Monkey Has a Problem (see Resources) to teach appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.
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Role-Playing Activities
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Role-playing activities have the student act as one type of character in something similar to a skit. The teacher assigns roles, and the students act as the character. During the role-playing, teachers should strive to show students what is appropriate and self-controlling and what is inappropriate. Teachers can use role-playing activities to teach appropriate methods of self-control in different situations. For example, the teacher might assign a student to the role of someone who is angry. The teacher would then tell the student one method of controlling anger and then have the student role-play the action.
Self-Awareness Activities
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Self-awareness is helpful in self-control. Students need to understand when they are getting out of control and become aware of the situation to exhibit self-control. Teachers can employ self-awareness activities to help students learn to recognize out-of-control mindsets before the student is able to lose control and act impulsively and in a negative manner. Self-awareness might include imagining a quiet, peaceful space in the mind, questionnaires about control problems and what causes a loss of control, and writing out fears that result in a loss of control. Becoming self-aware will often help prevent loss of control.
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