Assertiveness and Aggressiveness

 During our wananga time, we as a class have been learning more about other people such as our relationship with them. However, this time we learned about assertiveness as well as aggressiveness. We split into pairs and did some activities with that person, we were given a different task for each person on each pair. An example of this is person A will have a task set for them to do to person B, and person B will have a task to do to person A. We then went outside without a clue of what the other person will do, it was all about trust. Anyway, we did the activity and it would show how we reacted which is either by being assertive or aggressive. 

After that, we went back to our classroom and discussed situations where a person has been aggressive to us. We then talked about how we can react to this situation by being not aggressive, this is the things that we could do; Deep breaths, walk away, find a friend/adult, activities to calm down, ignore it, say thank you, stop and thing, and most importantly SMILE!