Peer conflicts include:
- friendship challenges
- honesty
- rumor/gossip
- teasing
- missing item, etc.
Peer Mediators will learn new ways to handle conflicts and disagreements. They will hold a peer meditation for students by appointment (and teacher approval) during Peer Mediation hours which is Tuesday through Thursday during lunch or recess time. A mediation occurs when trained peer mediators sit down with two students who have a friendship problems and help them come to a solution. The mediators are not there to judge or prove one student wrong or right, but are simply there to help both students work together to create a tangible solution. Students enjoy the opportunity to work through their challenges with students their own age and utilize the mediation contract as a reminder of the solutions they made together.
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