1. What Research Says About Aggression
Chapter 9 Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.

2. Aggression is in the eye of the beholder.
Some children evidence behavior patterns that give them precisely what they do not need.
Chapter 9 Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.

3. Aggressive behavior frequently occurs in groups.
Teachers tend to focus on individual children who are aggressive when it would be more effective to work with the total group.
Aggressive behavior frequently occurs in groups.
Teachers sometimes intervene too quickly when aggression occurs.
Jalongo & Isenberg, 2000
Chapter 9 Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.

4. DEALING WITH AGGRESSION
Can we use this research to better equip ourselves to deal with aggression in the classroom?
Based on these findings, what strategies do you feel would be most effective?
Chapter 9, Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.