The Effects Of Organized Games On Playground Aggression

On Tuesday we started a debate over if we are for recess and if we aren’t. I was on the pro side of the debate. With doing this debate we found out a lot of reasons why maybe recess isn’t such a good idea and why it is a good idea. For the pro side we found that recess provides an unstructured break that gives children discretionary time to engage in physical activity. We also learned that recess can be held anywhere. Recess plays an important role in a comprehensive school physical activity program and can provide a portion of the activity that a child needs every day to maintain health. We also told the con group that children learn through play. Free play allows children the opportunity to be themselves and use their imaginations. The con

The general argument made by Steve Rushin in his work “Give the Kids a Break,” is that shortening or taking away recess all together for young children is hurting their well overall well being deeply. More specifically, he argues that recess which he refers to as “a universal human need” is being taken away in order to prevent bullying and lawsuits. He writes that taking away recess to prevent bullying is “like scalping in an effort to end dandruff.” He also writes of his own time in elementary school saying that all of his recesses would end “like round 8 of a prize fight.” He goes on to tell his own tales of the many injuries and torture from older kids that he endured reminding us that despite the harshness of the playground he turned out

During recess we need to make the children aware of the levels of play that are allowed (Recess: Necessity or Nicety?). That means that all the bullying starts during recess, as Jay Mathews says, recess inspires fights and students getting teased. If teachers let behaviors go unnoticed it could increase the likelihood of further bad behaviors. During recess kids usually do their bullying when there isn’t any teachers around or when there is very poor supervision over them. Unstructured recess can lead to bullying issues, Alice Drinkworth tells that unstructured breaks avoid attention fatigue, regardless of the child’s age. Some people might be concerned about the strangers’ access to the children on school ground during recess or while they’re outside. They might be having situations where the people who are outside of the school and don’t attend the school have tried to talk and play with the kids while the person or teacher isn’t paying any

There is also a chance where strangers could come and interfere with recess, and do something bad. But there could be officers patrolling around the play area so that won’t happen. One more thing is that there could be bullying. But this could also be solved with adult

Recess helps create social and other developments. For example according to the American Heart Association they say, “Recess time has been championed as a way to help combat the notions childhood obesity problem. Studies also have shown that the free-play that comes with recess is crucial to a child’s cognitive, social and emotional development” (American Heart Association). This evidence proves

According to Hollingdale and Greitemeyer (2014), Video games that are violent are identified as very popular games that are played by the consumers. There is a concern that violent video games may pose a public health risk due to the levels of aggression due to the effects of the video games. In a cross sectional studies it has been found that there is a positive correlations with real life and video game aggression. Also in longitudinal studies shows that playing violent video games constantly it can predict that there may be later aggression even after controlling for initial levels of aggression. Experimental studies have showed that playing the video game is a factor of an increase level of

Although it may be inviting to get rough there should be an adult making sure that too much aggression isn’t let out. If there is a person being bullied the game should be stopped and the problem addressed. You can’t get aggression out on an obstacle course. It’s fun to throw a ball around. You’re told always to be still and don't throw or touch anything but in Dodgeball you’re able to do it. If you’re in the hallways and there’s a bully, once you get to dodgeball you can let it out on him. Whenever his backs turn fire you’re Ball. This will make you feel better. “ ...all of a sudden, he got plunked. . . . Joe whirled around to see who’d done it and saw that it was none other than Melvin, all 83 pounds of him, most of it smile.” - Story from The Weak Shall Inherit The Gym. This is a little twig getting back at a big time bully. Obviously little Melvin is ecstatic that he got back at Big Joe. This whole argument is countered if you have a P.E teacher who doesn’t pay attention. So you want do want make sure he/she does stays

The goal of this action research project is to determine if a structured recess program would decrease aggressive behavior on the playground which in turn would decrease the number of behavior referral forms that would have to be written. There is a growing problem in our schools; children do not know how to play during recess time. Children are spending more and more time in front of the television, video games, or other sedentary non-play activities. They are not learning how to play properly with other children and are coming to school not knowing what to do during their recess (Patrick, 1996). As they enter school it is now the schools job to teach the students how to correctly interact while playing at recess. Recess needs to be the fourth ‘R’ taught in school (Pellegrini, & Bohn, 2005). Putting students on the playground for recess time when they do not know how to play and interact with other students will only lead to boredom and inappropriate behavior. To avoid these inappropriate behaviors schools have started to use a more structured recess approach to teach children how to play and interact while on the playground. The question then becomes what structured recess program to use and will this program be truly affective?

Unfortunately, keeping children away from playgrounds is increasing around the schools and within the community’s .Some off the problems are parents themselves. Because they think increasing homework’s and schooling more value than children to play. Another problems is that all the activities, such as sport in school or outside the schools are all under adult directed. This kind of control to the child is like putting a leash on the dog. When the doge in on the least, it must be under a person’s control at all times. Paly is natural and its one of the crucial element for human development. When paly is not free, risky, and fun, it affect the child’s physical, mental, emotion, empathy, and cognitive

According to cnn.com "A study shows that 42% of U.S Students get most of their exercise from recess." (CNN.com Pg.1). CNN.com are telling us that most students in the USA have gotten most of their exercise from 20-25 minutes of activity. Playworks.org stated that "The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concluded from the body of research on activity in various settings that opportunity is higher during recess than at other times of the day..." (playworks.org Pg.3). Playworks.org is saying that research from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found most students only are active at recess than at home or anywhere else. Mercurynews.com said "Outdoor play is increasingly linked to stronger mental muscle." (mercurynews.com Pg.1). Which means that students are playing outside and when they get back in the classroom what the students learn will be remembered longer. In addition, we have collected a lot of survey data from students at Middle School

As children, the playground is a place they look forward to going. A place where they learn many important things while having fun. By playing with others that may be of the same age group, they are learning how to make friends, share, and interact with others. They are learning and developing their communication as well as social skills. Unfortunately, the playground is also a place where children learn and experience the concept of bullying. In the article the playground gets even tougher, Pamela Paul brings up the point that bullying is starting at an earlier age, as early as kindergarten. The article focused on the how often bullying occurred on school playgrounds. A group of kindergarten girls regularly picked on and harassed scarlett.

It is difficult to understand that games can promote aggression, but it is proven that it can. Their was a boy aged 20, he went to the local school and killed 26 other people. When an investigator was investigating this issue, he found that the boy when to a movie theatre 9 times in a month to go and play one game on an arcade machine, he would play for multiple hours non-stop the same one over and over again. Eventually the manager came and switched his game off. When the investigator when to his house he found information on weapons magazine capacities, images of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, copies of the violent movies Bloody Wednesday and Rampage, and a list of ingredients for TNT. He also had action games such as Call

Scenario, however, never been a question regarding the children’s continued behavior. Further study, Linn, (2004, pp 61-62) and Siraj-Blatchford, (2004, p. 24) children engaged in play, with others and surrounding environment promotes

At the beginning of this research project a baseline was taken in the first twelve days and the inappropriate incidents were recorded and ratings taken without any intervention by the three aids on the playground. Aggression, property abuse, and rule violations were the three problem behaviors that were measured in this research project. The three teachers were placed around the playground and were asked to observe a specific area for 15 seconds at a time before switching places. After the twelve baseline days the two organized games

Fighting, bullying, threatening and other forms of hostility in the secondary school setting present a serious challenge to the physical safety and psychological security of everyone. Physical and verbal aggression arises from the complex interpersonal and intrapersonal factors. When adolescents from diverse backgrounds