Ready-to-Use Conflict Resolution Activities for Secondary Students

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Author: Gloria Thrall

ISBN-10: 0130429058

ISBN-13: 9780130429056

Category: Secondary Education

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This practical resource gives counselors, coaches, and youth leaders a program for training secondary students in conflict resolution and peer mediation. Activities use typical adolescent scenarios and role-plays with reproducible handouts to make the skills involved in resolving conflicts relevant and accessible to students of all ability levels.

PART ONE.Section One: Defining Conflict.1 Problem Characteristics.2 Conflict and Underlying Needs.3 Identifying the Problems: Against the Wall.Section Two: Different Kinds of Conflict.4 Kinds of Conflict.5 Identifying a Conflict Within a Class.6 Analyzing an Intergroup Conflict.7 Sifting Through a Complex Conflict.Section Three: Dealing With Conflict.8 Learning About Conflict Management Styles.9 Describing Conflict Management Styles: "Spots on the Wall".10 Exploring Where Styles are Learned.11 Listening to Other Approaches.12 About Styles.13 Which Style Will Work?14 Observing Styles.15 Advocating Peaceful Conflict Resolution.Section Four: Understanding Different Points of View.16 Viewing Pictures Differently.17 Looking Through Our Own Glasses.18 Looking at Symbols: Power or Poison.19 Exploring Hot Buttons.20 Listening to Another Point of View.21 Exploring Cross-cultural Miscommunication.22 Exploring Attitudes Toward Clothing.23 Exploring Cultural Points of View.24 Seeing the Same Event Through Different Eyes.25 Sifting Through an Argument.Section Five: Communicating.26 Open Ended Questions.27 Paraphrasing Content and Feeling.28 Taking Another Look at Content and Feeling.29 Paraphrasing in Concentric Circles.30 Paraphrasing in a Circle.31 Summarizing.32 Toning It Down.33 I and You Statements.34 Delivering I Statements.35 Nonverbal Communication.36 Mixed Messages.37 Communication Blockers.38 Dealing With Your Own Anger.39 Diffusing Someone Else's Anger.Section Six: CollaborativeProblem Solving.40 Cooperation versus Competition: Rope and Square.41 Understanding Problem-Solving Prerequisites.42 Solving Problems: Defining, Exploring, Choosing.43 Finding More Win-Wins.44 A Visit to the Opera.Section Seven: Mediating.45 A Third Party.46 A Good Mediator.47 The Mediation Process.48 Practicing Mediation.49 Shifting from Position to Interest: A Trouble Spot.50 Identifying the Interests.51 Finding Solutions: Another Trouble Spot.52 Refining Skills: The Introduction.53 The Caucus.54 Dealing with Difficult Problems.55 Mediating with a Group.56 Evaluating with Colored Paper .57 Mediating Informally.58 Ongoing Training 1.PART TWO.Section Eight: Conflict in the Counselor's Office.59 Counselor as Mediator.60 Seven Steps for Mediating a Dispute: "Amy and Shelley".61 Conducting a Parent-Teacher-Student Conference.62 Using Mediation to Prevent Serious Trouble.63 Distinguishing Mediation from Counseling.Section Nine: Conducting Counseling Groups.64 Organizing Groups.65 Conducting Group A (for "Victims").66 Conducting Group B (Dealing With Conflict).67 Blending Conflicting Groups.68 The Unwilling, Mismatched Group.Section Ten: Conflict Resolution in the Classroom.69 Preventing Conflict in the Classroom.70 Resolving Conflicts in the Classroom.71 Dealing with undercurrents of Dissension.72 Teacher-Student Conflicts.73 Teaching the Concepts in Academic Classes.74 Yugoslavia.75 Taiwan and China.76 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.77 Huckleberry Finn.78 King Lear's Problems.79 More About King Lear's Characters.80 The Physics Olympics.Section Eleven: Extracurricular Activities.81 Using Mediation to Resolve a Conflict: "My Fair Lady".82 Using Collaborative to Resolve Activity Disputes.83 Dealing With a Difficult Colleague.84 Helping Students Deal with Anger.85 Encouraging Nonviolence.86 A Faculty Activity: Collaboration.PART THREE.Section Twelve: Setting Up a Peer Mediation Program.87 Organizing a Peer Mediation Team Model.88 Training Mediators.89 Mediating Through a Class.90 Ongoing Training.91 Training Administrators and Counselors.Section Thirteen: Publicizing Peer Mediation.92 Using a Videotape.93 Using the Art Department.94 Spreading the Word.Appendix.Crossword Puzzle.Exam.Resources.