How to stop bullying and social aggression : elementary grade lessons and activites that teach empathy, friendship, and respect /

From the Publisher: Providing strategies for promoting healthy social-emotional development and respectful communication, the authors offer interactive lessons that engage bullies, victims, and bystanders at their own level.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Breakstone, Steve
Other Authors: Dreiblatt, Michael, Dreiblatt, Karen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2009]
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the authors
  • Introduction
  • 1: Same Page Understanding Of Violence, Respect, And Bullying
  • Defining violence
  • What is bullying and respect?
  • Ground rules
  • Statistics and studies
  • 2: Solving Problems Peacefully And Resolving Conflicts Respectfully
  • Five steps
  • Statistics and studies
  • 3: Creating Empathy
  • What makes you feel?
  • Emotional statues-recognizing body language
  • Statistics and studies
  • Unit Test-Chapters 1-3
  • 4: Emotional Control And Anger Management
  • Guided visualizations and anger monster poster
  • Feeling clouds and charades-expressing feelings in pro-social ways
  • Deep breathing and positive affirmations
  • ABCD exercise
  • Statistics and studies
  • 5: Teaching Assertiveness
  • Teaching assertive communication
  • Handshaking-using the qualities of assertiveness
  • Recognizing assertive, aggressive, and passive communication styles
  • Practicing assertive statements
  • Assertiveness role-plays
  • Statistics and studies
  • 6: Responding To A Bully
  • Bully proofing plan of action
  • Role-playing the bully proofing plan of action
  • Statistics and studies
  • Unit Test-Chapters 4-6
  • 7: Power Of Bystanders
  • What's a bystander to do?
  • Tattling vs telling, aka ratting vs reporting
  • Statistics and studies
  • 8: Playful Teasing vs Hurtful Taunting
  • Defining playful teasing vs hurtful taunting
  • You be the judge
  • Statistics and studies
  • 9: Making Friends: Strategies To Resist Social Aggression
  • Definition of social aggression
  • Likes and yikes-determining friendship qualities
  • Personal boundaries
  • Finding new friends
  • Statistics and studies
  • Unit Test-Chapters 7-9
  • Final Test-Chapters 1-9
  • Epilogue
  • Resources
  • Resource A: Problems and conflicts to resolve
  • Resource B: Assertive statements
  • Resource C: Assertive communication scenarios
  • Resource D: Lesson outlines
  • References.