Conflict Management - The Link To Academics Conflict management skills can be taught in the context of the standard adopted curriculum subjects, such as language arts, reading, social studies, health, science and math. This method of teaching conflict management saves time as both conflict management and required content are taught at the same time. This method also shows children that there are real life applications for the conflict management skills they are learning. Some examples of ways conflict management can be used with existing curriculum follow. About Infusion As teachers grow more and more familiar with the concepts and more comfortable using the skills of conflict management, the links to academics become more evident to them. They more easily find ways to develop the concepts and practice the skills within the context of their discipline. The following describes a process of infusing concepts and skills. Look at the objective you hope to achieve in your lesson. Look at the chosen activity for doing so. Consider the concepts and skills required to manage conflict nonviolently. See if your activity could be adapted in such a way that it can achieve both your primary objective and a conflict management objective. Add the conflict management objective to your plan. For example: Your objective is to review for a test on content. If the activity for doing so is oral review, you might add that each student must paraphrase what the person before said before answering. The added objective would be active listening and paraphrasing. CURRICULUM INDEX
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