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Monday, March 08, 2010 (13:26:55) |
| Tags : Children, Anger, Classroom Behaviour |
Self-discipline helps kids cut down classroom problems |
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| Washington: Children who were taught skills to tone down anger and other emotions perked up their classroom behaviour, cutting down on disciplinary referrals and suspensions, says a study.
The findings say that school children in a mentoring programme were about half as likely to have any discipline related incident over the three-month period of the study.
They also had a 43 percent decrease in mean suspensions as compared to the control group which did not receive mentoring of the self-control skills.
Children taught the new skills also had a 46 percent decrease in mean office disciplinary referrals as compared to the children in the study's control group.
"This study suggests that with appropriate guidance, young children are capable of learning a great deal about their emotions and skills for handling their emotions effectively and those skills can have direct, positive benefits for their functioning in school." (IANS) |
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