Defusing Student Anger
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Defusing Student Anger
How do you defuse two angry students? One way to defuse anger that students carry into an elementary classroom from the playground or physical education is to sit both students far away from one another and ask them to answer three questions on paper.
1) What happened to cause the problem?
2) What will the other person say that you did wrong?
3) Why isn't this problem going to happen again?
By the time the two students finish writing their answers, the intense anger they have will probably be defused.
Give each one a turn to briefly explain their sides. Usually they will reluctantly admit to being part of the problem. And we all know that two wrongs don't make a right.
Finally, see if you can encourage them to say they are sorry and shake hands as a good will gesture. It works! I've done it for more than 30 years in my classroom.
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