Time Out on Anger: Learning Self-Control
Running Time: 16 minutes
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Through four dramatic vignettes, students learn the basics of anger management. Easy-to-use tips include stop and think, take deep breaths, count to ten, talk about your feelings and more. Each vignette models ways kids can find alternate solutions to their problems that don’t involve violent or impulsive behavior. Viewers learn how important it is to talk about angry feelings instead of holding them inside, and are encouraged to transform their anger into something productive-by using their angry energy to try harder instead of giving up. Program emphasizes concrete communication skills and conveys a clear message: although it’s okay to have angry feelings, it’s never okay to react with anger by hitting, yelling or breaking things. Students are sure to learn new ways to find healthy, productive solutions to their problems. Teacher’s Resource Book includes activities designed to reinforce the concepts and skills demonstrated in the program.
Includes:
video, plus teacher’s resource book, student handouts and pre/post tests in digital format
Reviews
Highly Recommended This short video presents four vignettes on how children can handle anger. An excellent, expressive commentator clearly introduces and, at the end, summarizes each vignette. Throughout the video, it is stressed that everyone feels angry, and that is OK. It’s what you do with your anger that is important. Each vignette is done twice, first where anger is not handled correctly, and then showing realistic, positive alternatives to the same situation. This positive reinforcement is a key part of the video, helping turn a potentially uncomfortable subject into a positive experience.
The four vignettes each present a different point:
- Stop and think.
- Talk out your anger.
- Don’t keep anger inside.
- Use your angry energy to do something positive.
The production values are very good, especially the young, energetic commentator segments. Although the vignettes are well done, there are a few points where a close observer will notice that the child actors seem a bit unnatural “reading their lines.” However, this is a minor distraction that many students in the target age group (grades 3-6) will be unlikely to notice.
A very helpful, loose-leaf teacher’s resource book with learning objectives, tips for teachers, classroom discussion guides, and several student activities is included.
- A. Ben Wagner, Arts and Sciences Libraries, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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