PEER MEDIATION TRAINING OFFERED Government are offering a 24hour mediation training to teach staff strategies and offices that are planning to begin new peer mediation programs, strengthen http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DSSSE/Communicator/newsletter3_03/articles/PeerMedTrai
Extractions: Peer Mediation Training Offered The Safe and Drug-Free Youth Section, Department of Special Services, Fairfax County Schools and the ADR Office from the Fairfax County Government are offering a 24-hour mediation training to teach staff strategies for resolving conflict. The training is recommended for staff members from schools, centers, and offices that are planning to begin new peer mediation programs, strengthen existing programs, or utilize mediation skills in their daily jobs. The training meets the general training requirement for certification as a mediator in Virginia. There will be a charge of $10 per participant, Fairfax County, to attend this training. The cost per participant outside of Fairfax County schools or government will be $35. The dates for the training will be March 31, April 1, and April 2, 2003. The training will take place at the Fairfax County Government Center. The trainers will be Marge Bleiweis, Fairfax County Schools, and Jim Pope, Fairfax County Government
FAQ's Of Conflict Resolution And Mediation In addition to schools with peer mediation programs, there are many elementary schools that teach conflict resolution skills, but do not have formal peer http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DSSSE/SDFY/ConflictResolution/FAQs.htm
Extractions: Q: What is the role of the Safe and Drug Free Youth (SDFY) office in relation to conflict resolution? A: SDFY in the Office of Student Services, Department of Special Services, supports conflict resolution education in FCPS. SDFY assists schools and offices interested in developing conflict resolution environments and/or peer mediation programs. A conflict resolution environment supports and affirms diversity and seeks to establish an overall tone of mutual respect. Peer Mediation programs are one form of conflict resolution that teaches intervention and problem-solving strategies. SDFY supports conflict resolution in the following ways: Providing conflict resolution and mediation training for FCPS staff; Identifying training resources for students and community members interested in conflict resolution education and skill development;
RESPECT NOT RUDENESS KEY TO VIOLENCE REDUCTION An excellent way to teach this lesson is through peer mediation programs in schools. These programs teach students how to listen http://www.abanet.org/media/peermed.html
Extractions: To fully experience the ABA site, please enable javascript. We are a nation of busy people. We scurry around with barely enough time to attend to over-committed schedules, and the first thing we dispense with in an attempt to save time is civility. We cut one another off in traffic, we bump into one another on the street, we pursue our personal and business agendas without the slightest regard for other people. We model behavior for our children that demonstrates that we care little for our fellow Americans, and the only thing that seems to make us want to be civil to one another in public is the fear that the next person may be even more of a rage-aholic than we are. Similarly, our politicians play scorched earth games with one another and generally demonstrate a supreme disregard for civil or reasoned discourse while pointing the finger at one another and crying foul. There is no limit to what our leaders will say about one another. And guess what, folks there are children listening and watching! The average child entering fifth grade has seen hundreds of thousands of acts of violence on television. The barrage of violence on the psyche of our nation's youth continues throughout their school years, and many psychologists believe that this overexposure to violence has a numbing effect, a desensitizing of youth to witnessing violence.
TEACH CHILDREN RESPECT, NOT RAGE peer mediation programs in schools can help. They teach students how to listen to one another, how to solve conflict without violence, how to manage anger http://www.abanet.org/media/peerfyc.html
Extractions: By Kimberlee K. Kovach, Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution , and Jack Hanna, Director of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution We are a busy nation. We scurry around with our over-committed schedules, and too often dispense with civility in our an attempt to save time. We cut one another off in traffic. We bump into one another on the street. We pursue our personal and business agendas without the slightest regard for other people. Our children see that we care little for our fellow Americans. Similarly, our politicians play scorched earth games with one another and generally demonstrate a supreme disregard for civil or reasoned discourse. There is no limit to what our leaders will say about one another. And guess what there are children listening and watching! The average child entering fifth grade has seen hundreds of thousands of acts of violence on television. This barrage of violence continues throughout their school years, and many psychologists believe that it desensitizes youth to witnessing violence.
Anti-Bullying Toolkit: Sample Peer Mentor And Mediation Programs friends, teach positive ways for teens to take care of themselves, and each ways to contribute to a safe and supportive school environment. peer mediation http://www.atg.wa.gov/bullying/samplepeerprograms.shtml
Extractions: T O O L S F O R S C H O O L S Home Opinions/Editorials Community Programs Sample Peer Mentor Mediation Programs ... Feedback Peer mediation allows students in conflict to solve their problems through sessions with trained peer mediators before they escalate into physical altercations. Natural Helpers United Learning (Evanston, IL) For More Information Contact: http://www.unitedlearning.com A mixed-media, peer-helping program for grades 6-12. The program is based on the premise that when kids have problems they turn to their friends, and within every school an informal "helping network" already exists. Natural Helpers serves to identify these helpers, and provide training and support to them. The goals of the program are: to teach an effective way for peers to help their friends, teach positive ways for teens to take care of themselves, and each ways to contribute to a safe and supportive school environment. Peer Mediation: Conflict Resolution in Schools Research Press (Champaign, IL)
Great Web Resources For Teachers Keeping the Peace http//www.esrnational.org/keeppeace.html teach your students Active peer mediation Programs http//www.coe.ufl.edu/CRPM/othersites.html A http://www.goodcharacter.com/TchrRsrcLst.html
Extractions: These carefully selected web pages contain very useful material to assist your efforts in educating for character. There is a lot in this list that you can use as the basis for class discussions, writing assignments and student activities. We have not attempted to sort them according to the virtues they teach because they all teach many virtues. The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation This website is just packed with great stuff for propagating basic human kindness. Their own description is way too modest, but here it is: "Want to encourage kindness on campus? Access our free Teacher’s Guide, lesson plans, activity ideas, teachers’ experiences, and other materials to help you successfully incorporate kindness into your school." A real gem. The Laws of Life Essay Contest This project of the John Templeton Foundation offers young people the chance to reflect on and write about what they stand for. Participants identify the laws of life that mean the most to them, and explain their choices through the experiences they have had, the lessons they have learned, and the people who have served as living examples. A truly great character education activity for any grade level. The website gives detailed instructions and lots of examples. Highly recommended. K-12 Giraffe Heroes Program - a Free Lesson
Peer Mediation In High Schools peer mediation This is both a Qld and Victorian program. (Primary and Secondary Schools), Aims Of The Program To teach students an awareness of conflict in http://www.conflictsolvers.com.au/training.html
Conflict Resolution Quotes School peer mediation, Documentation Basic Philosophy Of The Program The curriculum for the Back to Top Aims Of The Program To teach students an awareness of http://www.conflictsolvers.com.au/schools.html
Extractions: Three years ago, year 10 students at the Altona North campus began an Innovative peer mediation program. In which students mediate and resolve minor conflicts between pupils. Last week a group of six Bayside year l0's became Victorian champions in a peer-mediation contest, the School Conflict Resolution and Mediation competition (SCRAM), conducted by the Law Institute Or Australia. Notwithstanding the thrill of representing Victoria In the national final this month against schools from New South Wales and Queensland, the students are just as excited at beating some of the states most exclusive and expensive private schools. "That was the best thing," said one of the mediators, 16-year-old paul Jessop. The principle of peer mediation Is to have minor problems, such as name-calling, resolved with the help of students trained in the mediation process.
Fall 1996 - Peer Mediation Programs (CAREI) peer mediation helps to teach students that there is an alternative to violence, that talking out conflicts in a civil, respectful manner can work no matter http://education.umn.edu/CAREI/Reports/Rpractice/Fall96/programs.htm
Extractions: Professional Studies, University of Minnesota American schools share the one critical factor creating interpersonal conflict: they are full of human beings, immature human beings at that. Interpersonal conflicts rob classrooms of important instructional time as teachers step in to resolve issues. Deans, counselors, and vice principals find that conflicts divert a substantial amount of their time to resolving disputes or dealing with the aftermath. Lacking the tools to resolve conflicts, students get into trouble by escalating differences. Valuable time and emotional energy are drained when learning takes a back seat to conflict. In response to the increasingly violent resolutions of interpersonal conflicts between students, most schools have adopted violence prevention programs. Among the most popular are peer mediation programs. Peer mediation helps to teach students that there is an alternative to violence, that talking out conflicts in a civil, respectful manner can work no matter your age or your level of anger. It also moves the responsibility for resolving the matter from the school's adults to the students actually involved. The program described by the Johnsons in the following article is one of the best mediation programs.
Peer-Mediation. Story By Jackson Allers. larger conflict and could only have been resolved by peers I think if we had not done the mediation that we to school and learns because we teach them, what http://www.kpft.org/news/083002story2.html
Extractions: LEAD-IN BY HOST KATHRYN BINOVI: Recent statistics indicate that violence in schools is on the decline, but a study completed by the National Center for Education Statistics confirms that violence is still a major concern for U.S. schools. In an effort to deal with violence and the larger issue of youth conflict, the Harris County Department of Education has instituted a form of conflict management, called peer mediation, that empowers the youth to resolve their own conflicts. Jackson allers reports STORY: "If it works like it should...we'll stop spending our time and our money worrying about how many prisons we can build and how many people we can put away, which is a crisis at this point, and start working on the real problem and that is giving the children that become those adults a better way to deal with crisis and conflict so that they don't have to become the adults that we end up having to spend money on building prisons for." Judge John Coselli of the 125th Civil District Court weighing in on the potential benefits to Harris County's peer mediation program. Coselli has been working for ten years with groups like the dispute resolution center of Harris County and the Texas Bar Association to implement peer mediation in Houston area schools.
Safety Issues For Middle Schools life long learners. The outcomes of peer mediation are to teach students lessons they will need as life long learners. This is a http://www.mamleonline.org/resources/Safety/peerlinksandbooks.htm
Extractions: 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.
Safety Issues For Middle Schools peer mediation into the classroom this is a way to better educate students on how to solve their problems. This leaves the teacher with more time to teach and http://www.mamleonline.org/resources/Safety/peerpoint1.htm
Peer_Mediation (iii) Train Year 6 as peer Mediators at the beginning of each year. (iv) teachers to teach the lesson outlines in the peer mediation Kit with their classes to http://www.brookvale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/SCHOOL/PEERMED/Peer_Mediation.htm
Extractions: 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.
UWF Press Releases are trained in conflict resolution and peer mediation in the classroom before going to Pensacola high schools and middle schools to teach younger students to http://uwf.edu/uwfMain/press/topstoryarch.cfm?emailID=13198
Peer Mediation mediation and peer mediation are programs designed to teach school staff and students, respectively, to effectively mediate disputes, when the emotions of the http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/SafeSchools/pages/training/peermediation.htm
Extractions: PX 59607 Peer Mediation Mediation and Peer Mediation are programs designed to teach school staff and students, respectively, to effectively mediate disputes, when the emotions of the dispute have overwhelmed the skills of the disputing parties. Peer mediation is offered under the supervision of adult personnel.
School Mediation Associates peer mediation Empowers Students Just as teachers don t teach students algebra by solving problems for them, adults don t teach young people to resolve http://www.schoolmediation.com/books/resolvingconflict/chapter3.html
Extractions: by Richard Cohen The Benefits of Peer Mediation Educators who have implemented peer mediation programs attribute many benefits to them. Hundreds of educators, separated by many miles and vastly different circumstances, report similar experiences. Although it is essential to be cautious because most of these claims are unsubstantiated and based on anecdotal evidence, it is likely that peer mediation programs have some degree of positive impact on all of the areas listed below. The most fundamental benefit of peer mediation is that it effectively resolves student conflicts. Close to 90 percent of all mediation sessions result in an agreement that satisfies not only the parties, but teachers, administrators, and parents as well. And when students choose to end a conflict in mediation, it is resolved for good. This is because mediators encourage their peers to discuss all issues in dispute, not only the precipitating incidents. Even in cases where written agreements do not result, parties often learn enough about the situation to defuse their conflict. Peer Mediation Teaches Students Essential Life Skills
The School Mediator: Peer Mediation World-Wide for the Rotary Club) peer mediation Coordinator 5. What do you do on an average day in addition to coordinating the peer mediation program? I teach 5 classes http://www.schoolmediation.com/newsletters/2003/10_03.html
National Youth Violence Campaign ยท Articles, Interviews & More! need to have the skills to teach their students effective prosocial interpersonal, problemsolving, and conflict resolution skills. peer mediation Guide For http://www.violencepreventionweek.org/?menu=resources&l=3
CM Magazine Peer Mediation. and skills they need to become responsible, fully participating citizens using such innovative programs as peer mediation, to teach effective strategies so http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol9/no11/peermediation.html
