Teaching Students To Be Peacemakers
David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson
The research done by David and Roger Johnson for over 12 years is about whether there is a need and a benefit to teaching students how to be peacemakers. Though their research on violence and conflict in classrooms and how kids deal with this daily, they came up with a few guideline steps to teaching students the skills to dealing with these conflicts.
These steps that they developed for students to be taught on being peacemakers are:
1. They need to learn what is and is not a conflict and that conflicts potentially have many positive outcomes when managed constructively.
2. The students need to be taught how to negotiate integrative agreements to those conflicts of interest.
3. They are taught how to mediate their classmate's conflicts.
4. The teacher then implements the "Peacemaker" program once students have completed these steps of training successful.
5. Further training is provided for......
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