Extension Activities
Relationship Skills | Grades 6-8
Learning Goal 3: Identifies and demonstrates approaches to addressing interpersonal conflict.
Go back: Core Ed.
Go back: Intervention Ed.
Benchmark 1: Reflect on their role in conflict.
Take it further — integrate!
Ask to reflect and write about a conflict situation and how they acted and the response. What could they have done differently to get a positive result?
Benchmark 2: Identify how all parties in conflict might get their needs met – a win-win situation.
Take it further — integrate!
Teach conflict resolution skills. Develop a peer mentoring or conflict resolution program.
Benchmark 3: Apply conflict resolution skills to de-escalate, defuse, and resolve differences.
Take it further — integrate!
Teach a lesson that introduces various types of conflict resolution.
Choose a conflict resolution formula to use any time students have a conflict.
Routinely encourage students to use the conflict resolution strategy and provide authentic feedback when they do.
Benchmark 4: Identify positive support people to seek out in a conflict situation.
Take it further — integrate!
Ask students to develop a list of supports in and out of school. Ask them to write about the people they can seek out when they face a conflict.