​Establishing and Maintaining Relationships - Grades 6-8
Explain how empathy and perspective taking foster relationship building.
Interact with others demonstrating respect, cooperation, and acceptance
Explain how expressive communication strategies can affect others.
Identify conflict resolution skills to deescalate, diffuse, and resolve differences.
Explain how empathy and perspective taking foster relationship building.
- Demonstrate empathy in a variety of settings and situations.
- Identify situations in which stereotyping, discrimination, and prejudice affects self and others.
- Acknowledge diverse points of view.
| - Conduct class meetings in which students are given the opportunity to support each other and validate their emotions.
- Identify professionals in the school and community that provide support for others.
- Build diverse work groups through the use of cooperative learning and project-based learning activities.
| - Have students write alternative endings to stories through changing the behavior of one character
- Assign students books to read such as
To Kill a Mockingbird and
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory to recognize the value of all groups and cultures.
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>Interact with others demonstrating respect, cooperation, and acceptance
- Demonstrate a variety of strategies for collaborating with others.
- Acknowledge others' abilities and strengths.
- Seek to understand the perspectives of others.
| - Model ways to demonstrate respect for others.
| - Have students read a book (e.g.,
The Outsiders), then discuss why the characters responded in a certain way.
- Invite a representative from a human resources department to speak about the implications of social media on hiring practices. Have students respond by writing a social media pledge for themselves, outlining how they will use social media responsibly.
- Students examine current or historical events from various countries and through an oral or written report shares how those countries' cultures impacted those events.
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Explain how expressive communication strategies can affect others.
- Explain how clarifying questions builds better understanding between others.
- List different styles of expression and their impact on others.
- List different modes of expression and their impact on others.
- Explain how to respond in a pro-active manner to peer pressure on self and others.
- Model respectful ways to respond to others' points of views.
| - Have students discuss a topic, either as a class or in small groups, then use reflective listening to paraphrase key discussion points.
| - Have students perform different roles in cooperative learning groups (i.e., leader, recorder, reporter, time-keeper) to develop and practice communication skills.
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Identify conflict resolution skills to deescalate, diffuse, and resolve differences.
- Use conflict resolution strategies to resolve differences in group settings.
- Demonstrate receptiveness to others' feedback when resolving differences in opinions.
- Explain how conflict can escalate behaviors.
- Demonstrate flexibility in one's thinking or actions when resolving a conflict (e.g., ask for suggestions, think of alternatives; adapt to unexpected changes).
| - Have students discuss how actions may impact create conflict for others, (e.g., spreading rumors, use of social media, wrongful accusations).
- Provide students with a six -step approach to resolve conflict: 1) cool off; 2) use "I" messages; 3) restate the conflict; 4) take responsibility; 5) brainstorm solutions; and, 6) affirm, forgive, or thank.
- Ask students to identify at least one person to provide support when dealing with a conflict.
| - Conduct class debates over a particular issue that must end in a win-win for the class to be successful.
- Have students write and perform conflict resolution skits.
- Have students research and write a paper on how conflict resolution is portrayed in the media.
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