I work a lot with trouble kids and grew up in care myself…

You cant do anything to control their anger, the have every right to be angry if they have a difficult start to life.

All you can do is build their self confidence and respect, the best way to do this is by giving them control and your trust and faith in them. Try giving them more responsibility, you’ll be amazed at how much this can help. Depending what kind of home life they have, are they under valued at home? are they loved? are they belittled or does everyone think their trouble who wont amount to much?

Let them do responsible jobs in the class room, praise them reward the positive rather then reinforcing the negative they do? Most trouble children are crying out for love and attention and they really dont care if the attention is from the bad that they do any attention is better then none to them, you need to to make sure they get your positive attention so that they work more towards that.

Working in a children’s home, I found younger children from a difficult start need more structure and feel safe in a environment that has strict boundary’s even though they test them to the limit, esp if they come from a home that has none it helps them feel secure.

What do they get mad at? Teasing or not being able to solve a puzzle? At the end of the day, have a journal time, where they can write what they feel or anything… even stories… this might not work, since some kids have trouble expressing themselves. So, make a journal of your own and give them an example. Play some music while you’re not teaching (at a reasonable level) and maybe give them some of those stress balls, or any ball yo uca nsquish, actually. So long as they can release anger through their strength that way. Talk to them, make jokes with them and earn their trust. You’re their teacher right? You’re like a second mom to them – they will look up to you. Hope I helped, and good luck =).

The old fashioned way of helping kids deal with anger was to get them a doll to beat up. However, this method has never really worked, as it often just builds up their anger and teaches them to deal with it by physically trying to hurt another thing. What are they so angry about? Try to get them to deal with their anger is safe, constructive ways. Try letting them artistically express their feelings. Ask them to draw out what they are so upset about, (don’t encourage violent drawings), but finger paints can help.

After a child has learned it’s not okay to hurt, maybe a good way for them to let out their feelings is through staying active, like jumping rope, hula-hooping, beating their own times in running, and other things where instead of competing with others, they are competing with themselves.

If a child just has uncontrollable need to rip something apart, a good way to do this is to supply them with scrap paper, that has no importance. Let them tear it into tiny pieces. This exercise has shown to help children and adults deal with anger. You can show them how to scream into pillows instead of screaming at others.

However, if it ever comes to a point where a student hits another in anger, disciplinary action should be taken. Your school probably already has ways for dealing with that.

Give them a way to express that anger. Its very important in today’s society to allow students to express anger, because all forms of aggression are banned. lol give them something to hammer on, or something else to concentrate on when angry. Teach them to use that anger in a valuable way, in a difficult home life they will be unable to remove anger, so teach them to use it constructively. Make them do something physical that will eventually lead to accomplishing something. Just an idea from a student who was saved by sports, they may be a little young for sports, but doing something that takes energy and makes them feel like they accomplished something will help I think.

Set up a quiet corner somewhere in the room where they have to go alone and sit for a little while. (if you can get them over there)

I have kids like that too, it’s difficult.

If at possible, try talking with their parents, grandparents or whatever, if that might help. They could get them involved in an anger management program.

GOOD LUCK!

Being a student and i babysitter i would use the name game. Let me explain. Write every students name on a piece of paper and stick it on the wall. If they act up you get a warning and that piece of paper gets a red strike on it. if they act up again it gets taken off the board and thrown away. at the end of the day you can give out a prize to all of the kids with the names still on the board.

most children whether they admit it or not are competitive. so the best thing to do is to pair a calm person and an angry person together in something where the calm person will succeed. hence monkey see monkey do the angry child will start copying the calm child.

this is in fact a proven method from the psychology book “Get Anyone to do anything”

ok what i would do is sit then next to a well behaved student and tell her or him to work together.

if that does not work sit him alone and see if he likes it or not.

make him do fun things that forget him about all the issues at his home.