Standard of Learning

6.7 The student will evaluate the benefits of becoming a positive role model within the family and the community. Key concepts/skills include:

1. involvement in community and family projects;
2. development of increased leadership-role participation;
3. development of conflict resolution skills;
4. demonstrate respect for the opinions and beliefs of other individuals;
5. respect for rules and regulations.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will respect rules and regulations, the opinions and beliefs of others, and understand that peer mediation skills help resolve conflicts.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• define mediation. (a process in which a trusted person helps to settle a conflict)
• describe a mediator. (a person who helps two sides solve a problem reasonably)
• explain a conflict. (disagreement between two or more people)
• describe a put-down. (a negative remark that may make others angry)
• define respect. (having a high regard for others)
• explain why there are rules and regulations.
• describe mediation techniques:
  • agree on a trusted peer or adult;
  • set ground rules;
  • agree to treat each other with respect;
  • do not blame, name-call, fight, or push;
  • allow both sides to define the conflict;
  • list solutions to the conflicts; and
  • judge each solution. Will the solution result in actions that:
    • are helpful?
    • are safe and non-violent?
    • are legal?
    • show respect for yourself and others?
    • follow the guidelines of responsible adults?
    • demonstrate good character?
• make a written agreement to try a solution.
• schedule a follow-up meeting.
• identify ways to show respect:
  • listen without interrupting;
  • consider the views of others when you disagree;
  • consider the feelings of others before you act;
  • follow through on what you agree to do;
  • build others up rather than putting them down; and
  • treat others in the same way you expect them to treat you.

Sample Lessons

All Stars
Grades 6-8
Designed to delay and prevent high-risk behaviors including substance use, violence, & premature sexual activity by fostering positive personal characteristics (positive ideals and future aspirations; positive norms; strong personal commitments; school connectedness; positive parental attentiveness). Includes 9-13 lessons in first year plus booster lessons.
Sponsor: Tanglewood Research Inc.
Contact: http://tanglewood.net
Cost

Character Education Lesson Plan: Respect
Grade(s) 6-8
Lesson designed for middle school children, teaching the students to respect and understand other people's differences.
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/nccep/lp/lp99u.html
Free

Diversity: Respect Our Differences
Grade(s) 6-12
After completing a group activity on diversity students will compile a list of suggestions, on how to demonstrate and practice respect that will be used in the course syllabus.
http://atozteacherstuff.com/pages/293.shtml
Free

Education World: “36 Public Policy Questions to Energize Your Government/History Classroom Debates”
Grade(s) 6-12
Students will engage in discussion and debate relating to issues of importance to them and the world.  This lesson includes thirty-six open-ended questions relating to public policy issues that are in the new that examine issues from all perspectives. 
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/07-1/lesson011.shtml
Free

An Experiment in Unfair Treatment/Prejudice
Grade(s) 3-12
A teacher-submitted lesson that teaches students to experience some of the feelings associated with prejudice/bias and unfair treatment.
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/04-1/lesson006.shtml
Free

"Learning to Respect Each Other"
Grade(s) 3-6
Lesson designed to teach young students the importance of respect through history references.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/respect/
Free

LifeSkills Training
Grades: 6-8
Model substance abuse prevention and competency enhancement program focusing on the major social and psychological factors causing substance use and abuse. Teaches drug resistance skills, personal management skills, and general social skills. Includes self-image, self-improvement, decision-making, anger management, assertiveness, communication, media, and conflict resolution issues.
Contact: http://www.lifeskillstraining.com
Cost

Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence
Grades 6-8
Positive youth development program focusing on social and emotional competencies; good citizenship skills; strong, positive character; drug-free lifestyle; and service to others.
Sponsor: Lions Quest
Contact: http://www.lions-quest.org
Cost

Personhood Curriculum: "Respect"
Grade 6
A teacher-submitted lesson that teaches students what respect is and the right kind of respect.
http://home.earthlink.net/
Free

Project Towards No Tobacco Use (TNT)
Grades 5-10
Model program to prevent or reduce tobacco use in youth. Ten core and 2 booster lessons. Includes effective refusal and coping skills; effects of media and advertisers; methods to build self-esteem; and strategies for advocating no tobacco use.
Sponsor: Department of Preventive Medicine, USC
Contact: http://www.etr.org
Cost

Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)
Grades K-6
Model program to promote emotional & social competencies and reduce aggression and acting out. Includes emotional literacy, self-control, social competence, positive peer relations, and interpersonal problem-solving skills.
Sponsor: Pennsylvania State University and Channing Bete Company
Contact: http://www.preventionscience.com
Cost

Respect Lessons for Middle School:
"What is Respect?"
Grade(s) 6-8   Lesson designed for middle school aged children to help them learn and understand the word and action of respect.  First of three lesson plans from this given website for middle school respect.
http://mis.spps.org/counselors/m_respect1.html
Free
"Showing Respect for Yourself and Others"
Grade(s) 6-8 Lesson designed for middle school aged children to help them examine showing respect for yourself and others.  Second of three lesson plans from this given website for middle school respect.
http://mis.spps.org/counselors/m_respect2.html
Free
"Showing Respect, Our School Better"
Grade(s) 6-8 Lesson designed for middle school aged children to help them make a correlation between showing respect and a positive school climate.
http://mis.spps.org/counselors/m_respect3.html
Free

Teachers.net Lesson Bank: "#285. Stepping Out"
Grade(s) 4-12
Lesson designated for students who have already have gotten into trouble, but helps them learn new skills of respect and coping so that they will not get into the same situation again.   This lesson teaches accepting responsibility of personal actions, conflict resolution, and self control.
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/285.html
Cost

Teaching Guide: Respecting Others
Grade(s) 5-9
Lesson designed to develop an understanding of the importance of respectful behavior.
http://www.goodcharacter.com/BCBC/RespectingOthers.html
Free

Additional Instructional Resources

• Life Skills Curriculum
• Local Police
• Peer Mediation - http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v2i3/peer.html

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• role-play a non-violent solution to the disagreement.
• develop posters that reflect the elements of successful peer mediation. Have the class vote on the most creative, most original, most effective, and most humorous posters.
• list characteristics of a people in healthy relationships. (They accept each other's differences, respect each other's values, and think about the rights and needs of the other person.)
• list put-downs and explain why they are inappropriate and make other people angry.
• explain why rules and regulations are important.

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