Ready-to-Use Conflict Resolution Activities for Secondary Students
For counselors, teachers, or anyone else working with teenagers, this practical resource provides more than 90 ready-to-use lessons for teaching peaceful and successful ways of resolving conflict, including activities with typical adolescent scenarios and nearly 150 reproducible role-plays.For easy use, these materials are conveniently organized into three parts and printed in a large 8-1/4" x 11" lay-flat binding that opens flat for easy photocopying as many times as needed.PART I covers the basic concepts of conflict resolution. Here?s just a sampling of activities and accompanying handouts you?ll find in each of the seven sections:Defining Conflict: Identifying the problem and underlying needs of two parties? Homework From the New Student?The Brothers? CarDifferent Kinds of Conflict: Four types of conflict?inner, interpersonal, intra-personal, and inter-group?Identifying the Conflict Within a ClassDealing with Conflict: Conflict management styles...Which Style Will Work?Understanding Different Points of View: Viewing situations differently? Looking Through Our Own GlassesCommunicating: Open-ended questions, paraphrasing, toning down language, ?I? statements, and more, to defuse anger in others?Reading Non-Verbal Cues?Noticing Mixed MessagesCollaborative Problem Solving: The process of defining, brainstorming, and choosing alternatives? Cooperation vs. CompetitionMediating: Techniques of involving a third party, identifying interests, and mediating with a group?Dora Spills the Beans?Quarrel with the QuarterbackPART II shows ways to apply the concepts in Part I to reduce conflict as it appears in various areas of the school:Conflict in the Counselor?s Office: A seven-step process for mediating a dispute between two parties, distinguishing mediation from counseling?Two Chairs?From the Other ChairConflict Resolution in the Classroom: Teaching the concepts in academic classes?Yugoslavia and China?King Lear?s ProblemsConflict Resolution in Extra-Curricular Activities: Practice in settling conflicts?Dealing with a Difficult Colleague? Encouraging NonviolencePART III explains how to establish, organize, and publicize a school-wide peer mediation program and includes a sample training agenda, script for a videotape and much more.In short, this unique resource gives you a complete program for helping students develop the conflict management skills they will need and use long after they have left your classroom!