41. Safety Issues For Middle Schools The outcomes of peer mediation are to teach students lessons they will need as life long learners. This is a way for students to direct instruction and http://www.mamleonline.org/resources/Safety/peerlinksandbooks.htm

Peer Mediation in Middle Schools Links: Frederick Joel, and Maruyama Geoffrey. (1996) Peer Mediation Programs: Benefits and Key Elements. Research / Practice: Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement University of Minnesota, Volume 4 (Number 3). 3/29/02, http://education.umn.edu/CAREI/Reports/ Rpractice/Fall96/programs.htm This web site does an excellent job explaining what peer mediation is, how to implement the program, and how the school can benefit from the program. The site talks about how important it is to teach students valuable lessons about decision making, perspective taking, and communication. A major goal most middle schools have is to prepare all students to achieve in high levels as to become life long learners. The outcomes of peer mediation are to teach students lessons they will need as life long learners. This is a way for students to direct instruction and model to other students good communication skills. The site also discusses how important diversity is. It is important for all middle schools to embrace diversity and allow students to learn from each other differences. The site encourages all students to participate in mediation, and to use mediation to help students overcome the problems they face with the difference.

42. Kids With Character We teach respect, friendship, responsibility, kindness, cooperation, A second component of our Kids with Character program is peer mediation. http://www.ohes.opusd.k12.ca.us/Innovations/kwc/kwc0102.htm

KIDS with CHARACTER A Character Development and Peer Mediation Program Developed by Oak Hills Elementary School September October November December January February March April May June This program involves monthly school-wide themes and activities that teachers individually structure to suit student needs and teaching and learning styles. Some activities supplement ongoing classroom lessons and some projects involve school-wide themes. We teach respect, friendship, responsibility, kindness, cooperation, acceptance, determination, citizenship, honesty, and fairness. The monthly theme is incorporated into daily activitieschildren write “advice column letters” about playground issues or read “friendship poems” over the PA. Children are recognized for demonstrating character in monthly assemblies; they play word games with character vocabulary words; they gain perspective and sensitivity through role-play. Thus, children may learn songs about justice in music class or hear a story about kindness from the librarian during library time. The program includes a parent component. A separate monthly newsletter containing information and projects for families actively involves the whole community in this process. One parent noted that she saves all of our KwC newsletters to refer to when needs arise in her family.

43. James C. Melamed, J.D. Oregon Mediation Center, Inc. Schools Articles After reviewing several articles regarding student/peer mediation, Students can learn and teach the valuable conflict resolution skills that are http://www.internetmediator.com/pg201.cfm

Oregon Mediation Center, Inc. James C. Melamed, J.D. Home Training Services About Jim ... Contact PO Box 51119 Eugene, OR 97405 Phone: 541 345 1456 Schools Articles Resolving conflicts among youth is an area of ever increasing importance. Articles below are just the beginning, you can locate additional Youth and Schools related information through a Topical Search (Above) on "Youth", "Schools" and "Peer Mediation". We will be adding articles and information over time and hope that this Section will be valuable to students, teachers, parents and schools administrators. Hope For The Future? Follow The Kids! by Peter Adler Resolving complex, highly political, public policy issues is inherently messy. On occasion, a unique chemistry of effective leadership, good technical information, and principled negotiating actually does the job. It beggars the imagination to think that a bunch of smart high school kids could create inspired political breakthroughs where leaders in government, industry, and non-profits have repeatedly failed. Nonetheless, that is what recently happened. T.A.C.T. (Teens and Conflict Together)

44. CM Magazine: Peer Mediation. using such innovative programs as peer mediation, to teach effective strategies so A peer mediation program is most effective when it is part of a http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol9/no11/peermediation.html

CM . . . . Volume IX Number 11 . . . . January 31, 2003 Peer Mediation: The Complete Guide to Resolving Conflict in our Schools. Hetty van Gurp. 92 pp., spiral bound, $20.00. ISBN 1-55379-001-4. Subject Headings: Peer counseling of students. Mediation. Conflict management. Professional. Review by Gary Evans. There are seven components that lead to the success of a mediation program. 1) The support of the school administrative team is absolutely necessary, even though it does not take too many enthusiastic teachers to initiate, implement and supervise the program. Introducing the concept to the staff at a staff meeting, (especially after a recess period), might include a brief overview of the advantages of such a program, a role play to demonstrate the process, followed by a question and answer period. A few key members could be selected to be responsible for the planning and coordinating of the program. 2) A very important part of the successful implementation of this type of program is an understanding of the concept by all members of the school community. Through brochures, articles, posters, letters and presentations to parents, assemblies and monthly updates in the school newsletter, the ongoing communication with all the partners in the program must be developed and maintained in order that it be perceived that everyone is working towards the same goal of peace in and out of the school.

45. Anti-Bullying Toolkit Sample Peer Mentor And Mediation Programs peer mediation allows students in conflict to solve their problems through The goals of the program are to teach an effective way for peers to help http://www.atg.wa.gov/bullying/samplepeerprograms.shtml

46. Introduction To School Conflict Management Generally, the term conflict management refers to programs that teach Include both peer mediation and conflict management curriculum as part of the plan http://disputeresolution.ohio.gov/introschoolcm.htm

Information About The Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management The Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, together with the Ohio Department of Education, the Ohio Board of Education, and other educational organizations, works to provide Ohio schools with constructive, nonviolent methods for resolving disputes. Below is an introduction to School Conflict Management and examples of age-appropriate activities that can be used in the classroom to teach students conflict management skills. For more information on the Commission or how to start a conflict management program in your school, please contact the Commission at (614) 752-9595. Conflict Management Overview Definition Defining what constitutes a conflict management program is difficult. The term conflict management has become an ever-expanding umbrella that is used to cover a variety of approaches and programs. For example, conflict management programs can teach life skills, "win-win" negotiation strategies, mediation skills, and violence prevention strategies. They are implemented in elementary, middle and high schools to help students, teachers, administrators and parents resolve conflicts effectively. Generally, the term conflict management refers to programs that teach individuals concepts and skills for preventing, managing and peacefully resolving conflicts. Traditionally, student peer mediation programs have been the most popular form of conflict management. However, teachers are increasingly recognizing the importance of implementing programs that use conflict management skills to handle classroom misbehavior and to enhance the teaching of core academics. Student peer mediation programs are also giving rise to mediation programs designed to resolve conflict among students, teachers, administrators and/or parents.

47. Peer_Mediation (iv) teachers to teach the lesson outlines in the peer mediation Kit with their classes to skill children to reduce the incidence of bullying in the school http://www.brookvale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/SCHOOL/PEERMED/Peer_Mediation.htm

Brookvale Public School Peer Mediation By Anthony Peer Mediation started last year when Mr Taylor introduced it to the school. What Peer Mediation is about is to make everyone at our school feel safe. The Peer Mediators are Year 6 and Mr Taylor. We do a 1 day training course. We mediate between bullies and victims during Recess and Lunch. We don't take sides but try to sort out problems. Peer Mediation was a great success, last year and this year we want to decrease the number of bullies even more. I'm a trained Peer Mediator but I haven't had my first case yet but I'm looking forward to having my first case. Year 6 when on duty as a Peer Mediator wore red caps when the program started. Brookvale Public School Peer Mediation Policy Peer Mediation is not about blame - it is about changing behaviour. 1. Aims (i) To reduce and eliminate any kind of distress being caused to any child or group of children by one or more other children. (ii) To produce a mechanism through which bullying can be resolved. (iii) To foster the development of a caring student community inwhich all children can feel happy, secure and safe.

48. PROJECT OUT-REACH The team prepares the high school for introduction of a peer mediation project Volunteers are encouraged to teach student mediators how to vary from the http://www.abanet.org/yld/peer2.html

ABA PROJECT OUTREACH The Goals of Peer Mediation: Are We "Merely" Solving Problems or Are We Changing the World PROJECT OUT-REACH Project Out-Reach is an effort by three sections of the American Bar Association (the Tort Insurance Practice Section, the Section on Dispute Resolution and the Young Lawyer's Division) to promote peer mediation in high schools across the country. As of this writing there are more than a dozen pilot sites in schools of varying sizes in locations across the country. In the fall of 1997, an additional nine sites will be added, with more to follow. The program consists of a number of discrete phases. Once the school is prepared, the next task for the ABA trio of volunteers is to attend a session at which they learn to train students to be peer mediators. The three day program of instruction includes a day of mediation training, a day of teaching how to teach mediation, and a day of learning logistics about running peer mediation programs. When the school year begins, the trained volunteers conduct a multi-day training for the high school mediator trainees. After that, they conduct a year's worth of follow up sessions and "Tune-ups" to ensure that the program is a success.

49. Mediation Network Of North Carolina Curriculum It is scoped and sequenced to teach conflict resolution through concepts that build on to top Conflict Resolution and peer mediation for Grades 4 and 5 http://www.mnnc.org/pg3.cfm

Mediation Network of North Carolina Home Member Centers Curricula For Youth Community Mediation ... For Assistance Subscribe to MNNC's e-mail newsletter. Unsubscribe Phone: 919-663-5650 Fax: 919-663-5650 mnnc@mnnc.org Curricula For Youth Order Online The conflict resolution curricula developed by the Mediation Network of North Carolina are the result of several years of collaboration by staff members from community mediation centers across the state. These skilled mediators have extensive experience in the development of peer mediation programs and conflict resolution curricula, as well as classroom teaching experience, and bring this essential understanding to the design of the curricula. It is scoped and sequenced to teach conflict resolution through concepts that build on one another. The essential foundations of conflict resolution are learned through age-appropriate activities, games and songs in the elementary CONFLICT RESOLUTION FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 3 and CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEER MEDIATION FOR GRADES 4 AND 5 . A deeper understanding of the process as well as communication, negotiation and mediation skills are developed through middle and high school in

50. Discipline Tips Principle It is usually easier to teach a new behavior than to modify an old Principle peer mediation has been shown to be an effective alternative to http://www.dsea.org/teachingtips/tips/difficult .htm

51. :: Peaceworks Mediation :: Introducing Peaceworks peer mediation in School s Programme (PPMSP) The Peaceworks educators also teach a full INSET day, so the teachers themselves, http://www.peaceworks.org.uk/mediation/peermediationinschools/

Home About News Explaining Mediation ... Links Introducing Peaceworks Peer Mediation in School's Programme (PPMSP) The school playground is full of arguments! Some as minor as "whose turn it is to use the hoop" through arguments about which team scored the most goals in a football match up to conflicts about how "best friends" are shared. Minor they may be, but conflicts can so easily escalate and become painful and disruptive. Inevitably, most of these incidents will be resolved arbitrarily by a teacher or a dinner time assistant, with the children not really learning how to work through and resolve the conflict. Peaceworks has developed a programme to introduce the concept of mediation to schools: training the staff and teaching mediation skills and processes to pupils, then training some to become peer mediators in their schools. The lessons are taught over a three year period (usually Years 4, 5 and 6) with 6 lessons in each year. In these lessons, the children learn to understand conflict, how to manage it, and then how to be mediators. Volunteers are then selected to be part of the mediation scheme in the school. The lessons are initially taught by Peaceworks' team of educators who model the lessons to the teaching staff, who then receive a support package including all the lesson plans, and a day of Peaceworks' time every year for any additional training that may be required. Each lesson taught by Peaceworks is observed by a teacher, so that in subsequent years, the lessons may be taught by the school teachers themselves. The Peaceworks educators also teach a full INSET day, so the teachers themselves, have a broad understanding of what mediation is, can reflect upon their own style of conflict management and support the peer mediators.

52. Peace Education establish peer mediation projects at schools in the Western Cape. • teach learners how to effectively handle and resolve conflict amongst peers http://www.quaker.org/capetown/report03/peaced.htm

Peace Education MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT Peace Education Objectives In line with the Minister of Education's call to embrace appropriate values in primary and secondary education, the Peace Education team embarked on a process to integrate Peace Education and its values of respect for self and others, empathy, self-esteem, commitment to social justice, equity, non-violence and equality into the formal curriculum. Peer Mediation Objectives Educators who had completed training in mediation have set up peer mediation projects at their schools to train learners to resolve conflicts amongst their peers. Learners have developed an understanding of their role in conflict and completed workshops focused on Affirmation, Active Listening, I-messages and Assertive Communication. Despite a heavy workload, the educators have taken on a project which increases their working hours and costs extra money. It is critical to have buy-in from the school and integrate it into the school's programme. An implementation strategy for peer mediation in 2004 has been finalized. POSITIVE DISCIPLINE Pre-service Objectives A number of students from colleges have been introduced to the concept of positive discipline strategies in the classroom, which they integrate with their practical teaching experiences. An evaluation consisting of case studies reflected a strong move away from punitive disciplinary methods.

53. Teachernet, Peer Mediation The concept of peer mediation entails trained student mediators helping their teaching staff, so mediators must be taught the limits of peer mediation. http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/library/peermediation/

Skip Navigation Home Library of articles Peer mediation Professional development Management Whole-school issues Research ... Text too small? You're looking at an archived page , which may not reflect our current policy. Peer mediation The concept of peer mediation entails trained student mediators helping their peers to resolve conflicts. If implemented with appropriate limits, it can prevent teacher involvement in time-consuming disputes. It also develops the life skills of pupil mediators. What is peer mediation? The student mediator is an impartial third party in a dispute between their peers. This pupil facilitates communication, negotiation, understanding and problem-solving between the disputants. Coercion is not an option. Student mediators should reveal any conflicts of interest that they may have. This ensures that the dispute is dealt with in the most impartial manner possible. Mediators should be taught to recognise when the nature of the dispute has gone beyond their sphere of expertise. They should then refer the matter to another mediator or to an adult. Similarly, all parties should agree not to unnecessarily divulge the details of the problem to others. However, serious elements may need to be reported to a member of the teaching staff, so mediators must be taught the limits of peer mediation. One of the most crucial components of the mediation process is that it remains non-judgemental. The aim is not for a student to sit in judgement against another. It is to enable useful dialogue to take place and solutions to be sought by the disputants. Evidently, each party should enter into the mediation process voluntarily.

54. Classes - Life Trax - Peer Mediation, Restorative Justice, Conflict Resolution, Creating an Effective peer mediation Program for Your School Stepby-step approach for teaching the mediation process with sample training agendas; http://www.csmp.org/classes/classes.htm

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55. Teaching Students To Be Peacemakers At the other end are peer mediation programs aimed at teaching all students the competencies and skills required to regula te their own and their http://www.co-operation.org/pages/peace.html

Teaching Students To Be Peacemakers Cooperation and conflict The value of conflict Creating and conflict positive school Conflict resolution as a discipline program ... References Cooperation And Conflict With cooperation comes conflict. How conflict is managed largely determines how successful cooperative efforts tend to be. To help ensure that students will manage conflicts constructively (a) a cooperative classroom and school must be established, (b) students must be directly taught how to manage intellectual conflicts inherent in learning groups, and (c) students must be directly taught peacemaking procedureshow to negotiate constructive resolutions to interpersonal conflicts and how to help classm ates do likewise through the peer-mediation process. The result of teaching students to be peacemakers is that classroom learning is enhanced, the quality of life within the school is increased, and students learn the procedures and skills they need to r egulate their own behavior and deal with adversity. The Value Of Conflict Creating A Conflict Positive School Schools need to become conflict positive places where destructive conflicts are prevented and where constructive conflicts are structured, encouraged, and utilized to improve the quality of instruction and classroom life. To do so, students must be taugh t the procedures and skills they need to manage interpersonal conflicts constructively. The steps for creating a conflict positive school include (a) creating a cooperative context, (b) using academic controversies in classroom instruction, and (c) imple menting a conflict resolution / peer mediation program.

56. Barbara Ann Radnofsky Teaching. Barbara Radnofsky and Student Mediators Instances involving drugs and guns are not referred to peer mediation, Radnofsky said. http://www.radnofsky.com/teaching.php

Biography Professional Highlights Teaching Mediation ... Join Our Email List Endorsed by the Elect Mediators to Political Office Project Click here to visit Barbara Ann's Blog - Rad-note-skys Teaching Barbara Radnofsky and Student Mediators But that passion for lending a hand extends outside of the courtroom as well. For more than a decade, Barbara has taught area students how to resolve conflict through a peer-mediation program that promotes tolerance, listening, and understanding. Designed to stop on-campus violence, the program is now taught by Barbara at Spring Branch Middle School and the Monarch School, and to Upward Bound students in Houston. “This is one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done,” the longtime litigator said. “And it really makes you feel great when you realize students are benefiting from it.” Mediation equips students with communication and critical-thinking skills to help solve problems when tempers flare over stolen books, gossip, and name calling in the classroom. A group of “mediators”—chosen from a diverse cross-section of students each school year—are trained by Barbara to help reconcile differences between warring parties before they result in violence. Among other things, the mediators are taught to make eye contact when overseeing a conflict. The students also are given a mini course in public speaking, and they teach by demonstrating and answering questions about how mediation works, including sophisticated ways of looking past positions to determine true interests. Most of the meetings to resolve student disputes are taken care of in one hour or less.

57. Teaching Conflict Resolution Teaching youth how to manage conflict in a productive way can help reduce incidents of An example of a peer mediation program is We Can Work It Out, http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=371955

58. Education World ® Schoool Issues: Wire Side Chats: Striving To Make Peer Mediat Striving to Make peer mediation More Effective. teachers time teaching, and students time learning. peer mediation empowers young people to take http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat141.shtml

EdWorld Internet Topics Sponsored links: Earn 90% Profit! Walden University M.S. in Education Degrees Online Host Department Web Hosting Best Sellers Best Websites ... Kaplan University Master's of Arts in Hoodia Diet Pills Hoodia Gordonii Hoodia Pills Leading Trade and Vocational Career Schools and Courses Get your evaluation ... Wire Side Chats Wire Side Chats WIRE SIDE CHATS Striving to Make Peer Mediation More Effective Peer mediation programs have shown themselves to be effective in reducing student conflicts, but now advocates are working to make them more successful and easier to implement. Included: Descriptions of effective peer mediation programs. Leigh Jones-Bamman Peer mediation programs continue to grow in numbers and sophistication in U.S. schools. The programs train students to help their peers resolve conflicts in a nonviolent manner. To help standardize training for peer mediation programs, the Peer Mediation Standards Committee of the Association for Conflict Resolution is updating its training standards and working to establish a foundation for effective peer mediation programs. Chairing the Peer Mediation Standards Committee is Leigh Jones-Bamman, a program manager with Connecticut's

59. Conflict Resolution Information for educators useful for teaching conflict resolution and is part of a Conflict Resolution and peer mediation Programs in Elementary and http://www3.uakron.edu/education/safeschools/COOP/conflict_res.html

Legal Issues and Safe Schools School Groups and Peer Motivation Social and Moral Learner ... Site Map TEACHING CONFLICT RESOLUTION Susan Colville-Hall, Ph.D. Conflict resolution is a problem solving approach that teaches students to look at the problem through steps that clarify the problem and, through negotiation, create a resolution that establishes mutual respect . Teachers should help students resolve conflicts between peers. Students need to stop any aggressive behavior and "cool off." They need to understand that it is not about a win/lose situation. In an effort to neutralize the conflict, students should criticize ideas, not the other student. The listening and talking process will bring out the differences involved. Each student has the opportunity to explain the conflict. Students must learn to see and understand the point of view of the other student(s). Students should brainstorm possible solutions to the conflict.

60. Children's Mediational Teaching Style As A Function Of Intervention For Cross-Ag providing crossage peer-mediation on mediation teaching style of mediators and The experimental third graders received the peer-mediation for Young http://spi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/25/1/59

JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT US SUBSCRIPTIONS ... TABLE OF CONTENTS QUICK SEARCH: [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year: Vol: Page: School Psychology International, Vol. 25, No. 1, 59-78 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/0143034304024782 This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited ... Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Adina Shamir David Tzuriel School of Education, Bar Ilan University, Israel The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of a programme providing cross-age peer-mediation on mediation teaching style of mediators and learners in a learning situation. A second objective was to criteria of mediation. The sample was composed of 89 third graders (mediators) and 89 .rst graders (learners) coming from three third grade classes and three .rst grade classes in a primary school. The third graders were assigned to experimental ( n = 43) and control ( n = 46) groups.

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