Program Elements
Peer Mediation
Teachers as well as students are trained in mediation in order to assist all students in conflict resolution. The youth trained are then skilled to mediate conflict among their peers without the direct intervention of an adult. Peer Mediation is an outstanding process to help minimize aggression and violence in schools.
Some of the areas covered are as follows:
Elements:
- Student /Teacher Mediation Training
- Steps to Conflict Resolution
- Active Listening
- Judgment- free listening
- Empathy
- Confidentiality
- Brainstorming
- Rules of Communication
Key Ideas:
- The training process of mediators and mentors
- School wide education in mediation
- The framework of conflicts that can be mediated
- Conflicts that cannot be mediated