Leave Anger Behind Erasmus Project

Project Title

Leave Anger Behind

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

One of the greatest challenges facing educators today is how to cope with pupils who appear not to be able to control their anger impulses. Although small in number, this group of pupils and problems associated with their inappropriate expression of anger remain among the most serious concerns of parents, educators, schools and the mental health community.
What could be done to help these pupils struggling with anger issues? Some schools are conducting Anger Management Program- the process of learning how to recognize signs of anger and take action to calm down and deal with the situation in a positive way. It is inevitable to have improvement if the program is systematic, planned and continuous.
Our project was born with the idea of improving the experience of each partner with diversifying methods and effective approaches to deal with pupils’ behaviour problems resulting from lack of Anger Management. The 6 partner schools have detected the challenge of managing behavioral problems in the classrooms, having to deal with the use of threads, bullying among pupils, poor academic achievements due to discipline problems, some pupils’ persistent aggressive behaviors resulting in violent and non- violent offending, some pupils’ poor interpersonal skills and lack of self confidence in teamwork, etc.
To find solutions to these problems in our environments with international partnership, we have designed our project: This project will design a simple, easy-to-implement Anger Management Program and it will let each partner school’s educators use more effective strategies for coping with aggressive behaviour of pupils and provide guidance to their 10-13 year old pupils to manage their aggressive behaviors.
6 countries will be involved in this project with approximately 120-directly, 1800-indirectly pupils aged between 10-13 and about 150 teachers and educators with different experience, knowledge, beliefs, but common educational ideals.
The OBJECTIVES of our project are:
For pupils:
-to understand the reasons of their anger
-to discover strategies to reduce their angry reactions
-to develop problem solving skills
-to improve interpersonal communication skills
-to promote tolerance via building empathy
-to develop strategies to release anger (e.g. breathing, relaxing, yoga, hobby, ability to forgive, etc.)
-to control anger when they experience it (e.g. using rumor, calm down techniques, etc.)

For our school and educators:
-to equip teachers and educators with competence and knowledge to carry out the anger management program
-to implement the project activities effectively to create peaceful school environment
-to establish a school policy on Anger Management Programs
-to increase the academic achievement of pupils
-reduce the number of pupils with aggressive behaviour
-to decrease the discipline problems and early school drop-out related to them
-to reduce the potential risks for the school environment
-to discover innovative and effective methods applied in partner schools by exchanging the best practices
-to establish the international communication network
-to understand the importance of European values
-to strengthen the sense of being a European citizen
-to establish intercultural ties and to overcome prejudices
We will organize 4 short term staff training and 2 short term exchange of pupils’ mobility.
Throughout short-term staff training, we will gain new insights, exchange best practices, and develop skills of communication, teamwork, English and ICT. We will be provided with new insights, case studies and practical tips for successful Anger Management Programs at schools. We will discover new approaches to reduce pupils’ aggressive reactions with skill training. We will get to know the reasons underneath the bullying at schools and ways of creating a more peaceful atmosphere to enhance more prosperous learning and teaching process.
During short term pupils’ exchange, our students will experience working and enjoying in multicultural social settings with their international friends. They will develop their skills of creativity, critical thinking, collaborative problem solving, learning to learn. They will be equipped with effective relaxing techniques to cope with their aggressive behaviour.
We plan to have regular assessment procedures to ensure that the project objectives and results are achieved:
-Anger Management Survey, Monitoring Sheet, Pupils’ anger Management Folders, Anger Log.
Expected Results:
Teachers and Educators will
-be more qualified at the implementation of Anger Management Programs
-obtain skills of collaboration, communication, problem solving and time management skills in international
Pupils will
-discover the reasons and results of their aggressive behaviour
-develop strategies to release anger with coping skills
-learn tolerance and empathy.
Schools will
-develop policy on Anger Management Program
-have peaceful atmosphere
-be more successful in decreasing early drop-out.

Project Website

http://twinspace.etwinning.net/85126/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 30291 Eur

Project Coordinator

Alytus Piliakalnis progymnasium & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Corrado Melone
• St Aidans Community School
• Zakladni skola a Materska skola Stara Ves nad Ondrejnici, prispevkova organizace
• Ejerslykkeskolen
• IMKB Suvari Ortaokulu