But it can certainly and easily be applied outside a classroom setting or aid a parent in knowing what and how to request assistance from their child's teacher or childcare provider. We hope it will offer teachers, childcare providers, and parents some new insights.
Violence is one possible, but undesirable, response to conflict.
When teachers respond to typical classroom conflict in ways that support the development of peaceful conflict resolution skills, children and early childhood classrooms benefit. Peaceful conflict resolution in the early childhood classroom is working through a problem or conflict in a way that does not physically, emotionally, or socially hurt anyone involved. The section offered here is the third of six key points in the written materials. This section asserts that it is through a strong teacher child relationship that children learn peaceful conflict resolution, a positive alternative to a violent response to conflict. Prepared by Barbara Brooks, Child Care Connections, Boise, Idaho.