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 - Respect for Self, Property, Others and The Environment
Grade(s): K-12
This lesson will be implemented as part of a character education unit on respect for self, property, others and the environment, an essential quality of good
http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=7366
Free

Ideas for Teaching about Different Countries and Cultures
Grade(s): 1-8
This lesson focuses on students from elementary level up through middle school level and teaches them about different countries and cultures.  Through the lessons on different cultures and countries the students are able to gain a respect for people's differences.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAOCICountriesandCulturesIdeas18.htm
Free

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

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

Property: Ownership, Respect, Responsibility
Grade(s): K-12
Students learn to respect others' property by rating the severity of a variety of damaging acts.
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/04/lp329-03.shtml
Free

Respect for property (or equivalent)
Grade(s): 1-7
In this lesson students will discuss the consequences of playing on or near a railway track and railway vandalism.
http://www.teachingzone.org/pdf/7-11PSHElp.pdf
Free

Social Emotional Learning Lesson Grade(s) 3-6 art
Grade(s): 3-6
After reading a story, students will figure out a situation when someone has accepted “no” and dealt with the anger.  From this students will learn to solve problems and deal with anger.
http://www.dist102.k12.il.us/internal/SELWebPg/COPArtIWantaDog.htm
Free

What Is Respect?
Grade(s): K-12
Students will discuss as a class the meaning of the school rules: Respect for self, Respect for others, Respect for property. They will brainstorm examples of each. (Lesson can be modified to pencil and pen if Kidpix is not available at your school)
http://www.kamalii.k12.hi.us/TLCF2002/story_-_what_is_respect.htm
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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