What is Conflict Management Education?
Teaching Students to Handle Conflict
1. Understand conflict
-- a source of growth and change
2. Understand their own response to conflict
- triggers
- conflict styles
- biases
3. Learn listening and communication skills
- active listening
- I messages
4. Problem-solving
model for conflict resolution
5. Application to History, Literature, Science, Health & Life Skills,
and Current Events
Why Use Conflict Management Education?
1. Improve the school
climate
2. Increase time for teaching and learning
3. Develop constructive social and conflict behavior in students
4. Give students the responsibility and skills to resolve their own conflicts.
5. Increase student self esteem.
What is Peer Mediation?
Mediation is a peace-making
process:
1. Students help disputing students resolve conflicts by acting as imparital
facilitators
2. Mediation is voluntary and private
3. Disputants create their own agreement
4. Mediators are trained and supported
5. Adult coordinators supervise the program
The Steps of Peer Mediation
1. Open the Session
2. Gather Information
3. Focus on Interests and Perspectives
4. Generate and Evaluate Options
5. Agree on Solutions
For
information, contact:
Maine Law & Civics Education,
University of Maine School of Law
246 Deering Avenue
Portland, ME 04102
207-780-4159
Email to pamelaa@usm.maine.edu