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Are you tired of constantly mediating conflicts between your students or children? Do you want to empower them to become independent problem solvers? Look no further than the Conflict Resolution Step-By-Step Mediation Guide for Kids! This lap book is a classroom lifesaver, providing students with the tools they need to resolve conflicts on their own. Not only will students love how hands-on and fun this activity is, it helps them practice all the key conflict resolution skills for problem solving. Plus, it helps students regulate their emotions when triggered by frustrating social interactions. Teachers can use it as a classroom management tool or for individual interventions with students who need additional support with conflict resolution skills. How Our Step-By-Step Conflict Resolution Guide Works: Choose a coping tool to get calm first. The calming strategies include Hand Over Heart, Cocoa Breathing, Count to 20, Roller Coaster Breathing, Rocks & Socks, and Ocean Waves Breathing, all with strong visual supports and directions. Reflect on the size of the problem.  If it is a big problem, get an adult to help! But if it's something you can handle on your own.... Choose a conflict resolution tool...and give it a try.   If using an I-Message, kids can use the hands-on template on the back of the lap book to formulate the statement.   After trying out the conflict resolution strategy, reflect on whether or not it helped.  If not, don't worry - the lap book also includes prompts to suggest trying another skill.  Ways to Use The Conflict Resolution Guide for Kids is versatile and can be used in a variety of settings including: your classroom school counseling office peer mediations at recess for when students are trying to figure out how to resolve a conflict Calm Down Corner or Break Space virtual teletherapy counseling sessions at home to deal with sibling conflicts WHAT'S INCLUDED Digital: ✔ Interactive digital Choice Board for Google Classroom or other platform that uses Google Slides™ Printable ✔ Choice between full color, light color and black/white printing options ✔ Title Choices between "Conflict Resolution" and "Peaceful Problem Solving" (which can work well for students unfamiliar with the term "conflict resolution) ✔ Bonus "To Resolve A Conflict, I Can....?" Posters (in 3 printing options and optimized to print in both 8.5"X11" and 18"X24"). ✔ Bonus Conflict Resolution Checklists ✔ Bonus "Conflict Resolution Map" printable What's Needed to Assemble Printable Choice Board: ✓ Hook and Loop Adhesive Dots ✓ Paper Clips, Binder Clips, and/or Clothespins ✓ File Folder You May Also Enjoy these others : ⭐ Feelings Check-In and Calming Strategies Choice Board ⭐ Our Classroom Calm Corner Toolbox ⭐ Trauma Sensitive Classroom Rules, Values & Expectations: Editable Banner Decor ⭐ Breathing Exercises for Kids: Book & Task Cards for Calm Corner

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When it comes to teaching reading and writing to middle school students, it's overwhelming to know where to start with what to teach them. Below I'm going to recap a few of my favorite lessons to teach within the first two months of the school year. Lesson One: Selecting Independent Reading Material The way I run Reading Workshop rests on doing a daily reading minilesson following the gradual release of responsibility (modeling, have-a-go, application, share). During that application time, students are expected to apply the concept from the minilesson for the day to their independent reading book. If students are "fake reading" and have no idea what's going on in their book or flat out don't have an independent reading book, how are they supposed to complete the minilesson? One common mistake we make at the beginning of the school year is that we jump right into content without laying down a foundation for reading. In order to create a reading culture in your classroom, here are a few things to try: 1. Have a minilesson focused solely on selecting engaging independent reading material. This year, I did the minilesson application on Google Classroom. Students explored sites like "Good Reads" and "What Should I Read Next" and wrote down book titles that interested them. We also started a collaborative class Google Doc where each student added a book recommendation. In the past, I have let students just go down to the library to pull any random book off the shelf as their next IR book and hope for the best. Why am I not surprised when that same student comes up to me three days later and says they're going to abandon their current independent reading book....again. Now, before I will even sign a pass to the library, students have to show me their "Book I Want to Read" list in their Reader's Notebook with the book they intend to checkout. If students don't have a specific book in mind, I ask them to go to Google Classroom and spend a little time on the websites previously mentioned looking for a specific idea. Lesson Two: Establish What Independent Reading and Writing Looks Like In order for students to become better readers and writers, they must have time to read and write. If you don't give them that time during class, the world of sports, friends, and technology is going to take over after school. The reading and writing more than likely is not going to happen as consistently as we would want it to. Independent reading and writing can't happen in your class is clear expectations aren't set collaboratively, practiced, reflected on, and reinforced daily. Trust me, it is a battle you want to fight and win because not only do students need this time to become better readers and writers, I need this time with them to be holding reading and writing conferences and guided reading and guided writing small groups. Some of my students will learn when I am teaching a whole class minilesson, but where I am truly going to make a difference is during small group and individualized instruction. If this instruction can never happen because I have to play reading and writing police, then this is a tragic loss of prime instructional time for my students. Taking the time to make sure independent reading and writing expectations are crystal clear is never a waste of time. Lesson Three: Teach Students How to Be Sentence Stalkers The foundation of how I run Word Study in my classroom, which encompasses grammar, writing conventions, vocabulary, spelling, etc. is through the sentence stalking of sentences from our current interactive read aloud. I don't waste a day of school before I have students learn how to be sentence stalkers. Word Study is on the board when students walk into class, so it's the first thing they do every single day. Teaching students how to look at the writer's craft of what goes into writing a sentence can impact students in how they read and how they write. Lesson Four: Citing Textual Evidence and Quality Reading Response The first type of writing I have my students do is in response to their reading. We call this type of writing "Writing about Reading." These responses at the beginning of the year tend to be filled with vague ideas not supported with what's actually going on in the book. This year, my team of 8th grade LA teachers and I bit the bullet and taught how to add in and cite textual evidence extremely early on in the school year. We specifically focused on how to introduce textual evidence, how to cite it correctly, and how to explain the ideas. I don't regret it one bit, not even a little. Teaching this writing skill right away saved me from seemingly endless hours of reading Writing about Reading responses with vague references to reading. Now that we're writing a research paper in Writing Workshop, it's also pretty awesome that students are connecting adding in textual evidence to adding in specific research. The above picture is a shared writing that I did with my reading intervention group in response to the book, Crow Call, by Lois Lowry. Getting the opportunity to work with six students consistently in a small group on specific skills they need as readers and writers is a true gift!

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Conflict Resolution Activity: Help your students better understand how to positively resolve conflicts with peers! Students will brainstorm to contrast positive conflict resolution and negative conflict resolution and then learn steps to positively resolve conflicts with friends. After completing this lesson, students will know how to approach a conflict with a peer in a way that will promote positive conflict resolution. This is perfect for a conflict resolution classroom guidance lesson or small group counseling activity to learn more about conflict resolution skills.   What's Included: Detailed, ready to print-and-implement lesson plan (objectives, scripted outline, materials list, ASCA standards alignment, suggested data collection) Pre-/post-test Brainstorming T-chart Ready-to-show PowerPoint Fill-in-the-blank fillable notes Demonstration script Conflict resolution scenarios Conflict resolution step checklists   Please Note: This will be included in a Stress Management Bundle coming soon.   Terms Copyright © Counselor Keri, Keri Powers Pye. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clip-art and font credits.

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