At a Glance

• Audience: Grades 3-12
• Goal: Teaches how leading a positive lifestyle leads to being empowered
• Six-Week Curriculum Fee: $630

Anger can be a difficult emotion for some young people to manage. Helping students develop the skills necessary to avoid destructive, angry thoughts and actions is an essential part of violence prevention education. Personal Power teaches students healthy ways to express and manage anger and offers students an opportunity to recognize their role in reducing and preventing school violence.

Effective Communication
Identifying and understanding communication styles are vital when developing skills to express emotions. Helping students learn healthy ways to get what they need is essential to anger management. Personal Power teaches students the most effective ways to develop positive, assertive communication skills.

Managing Conflict
Knowing what triggers anger and conflict is important to discovering healthy, appropriate ways to handle them. Personal Power teaches students steps to resolve conflict peacefully. This ability helps students recognize their role in violence preventions while gaining skills they can use throughout their lives.

Managing Stress
Personal health is important to attaining personal power. Good nutrition, relaxation techniques, and avoiding tobacco, alcohol and other drugs can reduce stress and help young people stay free from violence. Personal Power offers training in stress management in order to help students gain self-control and self confidence.

Show-Me Standards and MAP Skills addressed:

• Learn life management skills such as stress management, goal-setting, decision-making, assertive behavior, resisting peer pressure and conflict resolution
• Identify ways a frustrating, disappointing or angry situation could have been handled differently and determine ways to relieve the stress of the negative feelings
• Recognize conflict situations and practice solving different types of conflicts using effective communication and conflict mediation
• Develop effective coping strategies, including discussing problems, examining the situation leading to a problem and seeking appropriate assistance
• Identify situations that induce anger and discuss one’s physical and emotional responses to anger. Given a potential anger-inducing scenario, describe nonviolent ways to de-escalate or resolve the conflict