Resolving Conflicts
HEALTH EDUCATION - Lesson 10 - Week 6/10
Mental, Social & Emotional Health (5)
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L5: Your Self-Concept | L6: Setting Goals | L7: Friends & Feelings | L8: Actions, Reactions & Stress | L9: A Guide to Dealing with Uncomfortable Feelings | L10: Resolving Conflicts | L11: What Can I Change? - 9 SEL| L12: Community Solutions - 14 SEL| L13: When? Where? Who? - 17 SEL | L14: BrainPOP: Bullying & Cyberbullying
Mental, Social & emotional Health
Mental, Social & emotional Health
Resolving Conflicts
Resolving Conflicts
See below for the following:
Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)
LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA
I will learn effective strategies for resolving conflicts.
I will identify five (5) major steps in the peer mediation process.
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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY
Vocabulary
conflicts - struggles resulting from opposing needs or desires
stereotype - a simplified judgment or attitude about people
prejudice - a negative attitude toward a group of people
conflict resolution - a respectful process for solving problems that works to find win/win solutions to conflicts
peer mediation - students are trained to listen to their classmates and support them in resolving conflicts and finding peaceful solutions to problems
OPENING (Engage)
Main Idea
It is important to respect differences among people and to find common ground with them.
Why Learn This?
Respecting differences among people will help you reach peaceful resolutions to conflicts.
WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)
READ: Resolving Conflicts
READ: Resolving Conflicts
Conflicts are struggles resulting from opposing needs or desires. When you were younger, your parents or guardians and teachers often helped you resolve your conflicts with people. Now that you are older, you are expected to resolve your own conflicts peacefully, whenever you can. It is part of growing up. As you learn to respect differences and practice conflict resolution, you will have the confidence you need to resolve conflicts in school, at home, and in your community.
Is it important to respect cultural differences?
Estimates indicate that by the year 2050, one of every three people in the United States will have African, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American ancestry. More people of different cultures from South America, India, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and elsewhere are making the United States their home. How will we all get along?
When people are seen as different and these differences are not respected, misunderstandings can occur. These misunderstandings often occur because of differences between cultures. For example, one student likes to talk about her family. She wants to be friendly, so she asks a new student lots of questions about his family.
However, he is from a culture where it is considered impolite to talk about personal matters, so he doesn't answer her questions. As a result, she thinks he is cold and unfriendly. Do you see how this misunderstanding could lead to a simplified judgment about a group of people? A simplified judgment or attitude about people is called a stereotype. It is easy for a stereotype to become a prejudice, a negative attitude toward a group of people.
We live and work with many different kinds of people, so it's important for us to get along with each other. You can begin by avoiding all put-downs. Develop positive ways of talking and listening carefully to other people.
Make it a habit to respect cultural differences in everyone you meet. At the same time, try to find interests, hobbies, or goals you have in common. Forming these habits is a good way to develop tolerance, which means keeping an open mind about differences and respecting others.
How can you deal with conflict at school?
It takes practice to resolve conflicts anywhere, but conflicts at school can be especially challenging. Groups of friends may take sides, and the conflict can build quickly to involve a large group of students. To make matters worse, a problem that started in school can become a conflict outside school as well.
Conflicts between groups of people or between friends often make life miserable for the people involved. There can be serious consequences if rules are not obeyed and the conflict is not resolved. For all of these reasons, school conflicts should be resolved quickly and peacefully.
If you become involved in a conflict at school and you find yourself too angry to talk about the problem, leave the situation and give yourself time to cool off. Distract yourself with another activity—talk with a friend who makes you laugh and relax.
After you have cooled off, you will feel much more in control. Then it will be easier to work toward a peaceful solution.
Conflict resolution is a respectful process for solving problems that works to find win/win solutions to conflicts. Win/win solutions mean that no one loses. Imagine resolving a disagreement with a friend in a way that makes both of you feel good.
The first step of conflict resolution is for the people in the conflict to stop arguing and to talk about the problem. Each person needs to tell his or her side of the story and then listen respectfully while the other people tell their sides. Once all of the people involved understand what the problem is, they can begin to work together to find a win/win solution.
Working for a win/win solution takes cooperation rather than competition. When people compete, they work for different sides, which means there must be a winner and a loser. When people cooperate, they are all on the same side—the side that wants everyone to win.
Fighting Fair
As calmly as possible, tell what happened and how you feel about what happened.
Share your feelings without criticizing the other person.
Listen to the other person with an open mind. Respect his or her feelings.
Take responsibility for your actions, and find out what you can do to help solve the problem.
Work for a solution that you and the other person can both agree to.
What is peer mediation?
In peer mediation, students are trained to listen to their classmates and support them in resolving conflicts and finding peaceful solutions to problems. Many schools have successful peer mediation programs.
Five-Step Peer Mediation Process
As the mediator you:
ask each person what happened and how he or she feels. Restate what you hear from each person.
ask each person what he or she wants. Restate what you hear.
ask each person what he or she can do now to solve the problem. This may mean compromise.
ask each person if he or she agrees to the solution.
write an agreement. Ask each person to sign it.
Being able to solve your problems without adult assistance makes you feel confident and good about yourself. It is a sign that you are growing up. You can set a good example for people of all ages, and you can learn skills that you will use throughout your life.
Knowing ways to solve your problems makes you feel responsible. Still, there may be times when you need help to resolve a conflict. When those situations arise, finding an adult to help you is the responsible thing to do.
REMEMBER...It is important to respect differences among people and to find common ground with them. Respecting differences among people will help you reach peaceful resolutions to conflicts.
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Standard(s)
Standard(s)
HE5.3a - identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services
HE5.3b - access resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information
HE5.3c - assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services
HE5.4a - apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health
HE5.4c - demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others
HE5.5a - identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision
HE5.5b - list healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem
HE5.5c - predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision
HE5.5d - analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision
HE5.5e - choose a healthy option when making a decision
HE5.5f - describe the outcomes of a health-related decision
HE5.7a - practice responsible personal health choices
HE5.7b - demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health
HE5.7c - model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others
Essential Question(s)
Essential Question(s)
Is important to respect cultural differences?
How can you deal with conflict at school?
What is peer mediation?
Big Idea(s)
Big Idea(s)
We live and work with many different kinds of people, so it's important for us to get along with each other. You can begin by avoiding all put-downs. Develop positive ways of talking and listening carefully to other people.
If you become involved in a conflict at school and you find yourself too angry to talk about the problem, leave the situation and give yourself time to cool off. Distract yourself with another activity—talk with a friend who makes you laugh and relax. After you have cooled off, you will feel much more in control. Then it will be easier to work toward a peaceful solution.
In peer mediation, students are trained to listen to their classmates and support them in resolving conflicts and finding peaceful solutions to problems. Many schools have successful peer mediation programs.
RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
see below
DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials
Your Health: Teacher's Edition - Grade 5. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1999.
Technology
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large video screens for whole-class viewing
sound system for sharing of audio
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