Conflict Management as a Classroom Management Tool
(HSG:169-197) (MSG:266-314)

 
! How to assess your school climate
(HSG:20-31)

  • School’s physical environment
  • School’s social environment
  • School’s cultural environment

! Developmental assets that serve as predictors for whether a teen will be troubled or healthy, productive and positive (Search Institute) (HSG:34)(MSG:503)(ESG:470)


! Example of whole-school conflict management program
(HSG:37)

! Planning strategies in the school

  • Mission statements (HSG:40)
  • Codes of conduct/discipline procedures (HSG:41-53)(HSG:171) (ESG:467-469,453-465)
  • Addressing discipline problems (HSG:187)
  • Some goals for a conflict management plan (HSG:55,58)(MSG:500) (ESG:450,475)
  • Crisis management (HSG:59)
  • Collaborative efforts and team building (HSG:60-71) (ESG:473-474,477-488)
  • Assessment of school’s conflict management program (HSG:72-75) (ESG:502-506)
  • School and community activities (HSG:99,191)(ESG:472)
  • Student bill of rights (MSG:497-499)(HSG:182)
  • How to link conflict management activities to academic subjects
    (MSG:315-318)(MSG:6-11)(HSG:7-11)(ESG:6-11,93,94)
  • Mental Maps (ESG:45-47)

! Other classroom strategies

  • Class meetings (MSG:268)(HSG:131)(ESG:231-235)
  • Establishing a classroom community (HSG:180)
  • Writing classroom rules (HSG:181)
  • Consensus building (HSG:184)(MSG:269)
  • Classroom problem-solving (HSG:185)
  • Conflict free zone (MSG:273)
  • Helping children use imagination to "discard" of troubles (HSG:186)(MSG:270,271) (ESG:236)
  • Recognizing teachable moments (HSG:186)
  • Forms for students to fill out to contemplate implications of violating school discipline code and classroom rules
    (HSG:188,190,196)(MSG:280,281) (ESG:466)
  • Conflict resolution corner or center (MSG:11)(HSG:9,10)(ESG:239)
  • Peer mediation (HSG:10,11,569)(MSG:9,10,466-477) (ESG:250, 518-527)
  • Complaint pail (ESG:237)
  • Problem-solving forms (ESG:244-245)
  • Steps to Peace (ESG:247)
  • Student Bill of Rights (ESG:492-494)
  • Peaceful days bulletin board (ESG:491)
  • Violence Prevention Week (ESG:489-490)
  • Conflict resolution procedures (ESG:249)
  • Public Relations (ESG:495-498)

! Strategies to assist teachers

  • Dealing with the angry student (HSG:173)
  • Handling surface behavior (HSG:174)
  • Things to say when confronted (HSG:175)
  • Conflict intervention strategies (HSG:177)
  • Understanding needs of troubled youth (HSG:179)
  • Teacher strategies for helping students resolve conflicts (MSG:274)
  • How to link conflict management activities to academic subjects (MSG:315-318)
  • Book Guide Chart (ESG:264-350)
  • Faculty-guided conflict mediation (ESG:252-256)
  • Options for responding when we disagree (ESG:371)
  • Temper tantrums (ESG:391)
  • Student empowerment (ESG:389)
  • Put-downs,Put-ups (ESG:394-395)
  • Negotiation (ESG:393)
  • Anger Management (ESG:116-119)
  • Guiding a student to resolve a problem (ESG:399)
  • Resiliency in children (ESG:397-398)
  • Principles for teaching peacemaking (ESG:355-360)

Compiled by: Kim Strong Lytle, Conflict Resolution Services, Hamilton, Ohio 1999.

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