Social competency is a set of skills that provide children with the tools and abilities to successfully navigate the world around them. "Developing Social Competency in Young Children" looks at each of the seven Cs of social competence--communication, community building, coping, confidence, conflict resolution, control, and curiosity.…

Presented is a five-step approach to help children settle their own arguments, fights, and disagreements, making these children more responsible for their own actions and better prepared to handle conflicts in positive ways. (Author/KC)

The author describes a meeting at which he and his students jointly set classroom roles agreeable to everyone. He used the no-lose method of problem solving, posited by Dr. Thomas Gordon, author of Parent Effectiveness Training. The six steps of the method are elucidated. (SJL)

These facilitator's skill packets contain nine individual packets on skill alternatives to aggression: (1) asking permission; (2) sharing something; (3) helping others; (4) negotiating; (5) using self-control; (6) standing up for one's rights; (7) responding to teasing; (8) avoiding trouble with others; and (9) keeping out of fights. Each packet…

Describes one elementary school's school-wide effort to design and implement strategies for school improvement in discipline, community relations, and academic performance. Children are taught a simple three-step method for dealing with conflict. Referrals to the timeout room and discipline referrals for serious behavior infractions have been…

Handling intergroup bias issues in the college classroom may stimulate teacher anxiety but also may provide opportunities for self-understanding. Common anxieties concern confronting one's own cultural identity/attitudes, responding to biased comments, doubts about one's own competence, need for learner approval, and handling intense emotions.…

Children's anger presents challenges to teachers committed to constructive, ethical, and effective child guidance. This Digest explores what is known about the components of children's anger, factors contributing to understanding and managing anger, and the ways teachers can guide children's expressions of anger. Anger is believed to have three…

This book is about managing a responsive classroom and teaching children to care. The aim of every chapter and technique is the creation of self-controls and community, defined as the capacity to care about oneself, others, and the world. The 16 chapter topics are: (1) goals of self-control and community; (2) techniques of the first 6 weeks of…

The "Viewpoints 10" curriculum is a 10-lesson structured training program for adolescents, designed to teach social problem-solving skills, increase impulse control, promote empathy, and develop prosocial attitudes. The lessons are intended to give students insight into themselves and to help them examine the motivation for their…

Developed by teachers and staff developers and blending research with personal experience, this book offers more than 200 problem-solving strategies suitable for elementary, middle, and high school. It includes problem-solving and decision-making models, observation checklists, reflective logs, divided journals, social contracts, and graphic…

This book presents a step-by-step guide to creating a smoothly functioning, literacy-rich first-grade classroom. It helps teachers do such things as bond with their new classes, create happy and cohesive environments, develop students' organizational skills and self-control, keep students motivated, integrate children's literature and the arts…

Noting that adults caring for young children often find themselves responding to children's misbehavior in ways contradictory to their overall goals of children's autonomy and self-management, this book provides practical child-centered suggestions for responding to young children's disruptive behavior and suggests behavior management techniques…