Children and anger management
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Translated from Arabic. Read the original.
A new American study at the University of Rochester found “that teaching self-control skills such as anger management to children in schools, using mentoring programmes, extends a positive effect to children's behaviour while they are in the classroom”.
Peter Wyman, the study's lead supervisor and professor of psychiatry, said: “The study indicates that appropriate guidance from adult mentors enables young children to learn a great deal about their emotions and about the skills needed to handle their feelings effectively, and these skills can bring direct positive benefits while they are at school”.
The study covered 226 pupils. It also shows that children enrolled in schools that use child mentoring are better able to handle anger and other strong emotions than other children are.
In the end, the mentoring programme used in the schools showed that the children improved in almost every area, by 43 per cent, which is a large figure in this field.
In a related context, Dr Magdy Qasem, head of Egypt's National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education, warned against hitting pupils. He described teachers who resort to “beating” inside schools as a means of correcting student behaviour as “untrained teachers”, noting that their presence in any school creates what he called an unsuitable educational ”climate”.
Qasem revealed that within two weeks he would finish publishing a reference work of his own, entitled “A Thousand Questions and Answers for Quality Reviewers”, containing all the indicators of educational quality, so that the Authority's reviewers can determine whether the state and private schools submitting files to the Authority qualify for the “accreditation and quality” certificate.
In earlier remarks to the Egyptian newspaper Youm7, the head of the Authority added that he would publish another reference work entitled “What is required of a school in order to achieve quality?”, intended to give school administrations the chance to learn the requirements of educational quality before applying to the Authority for accreditation.
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