MEDIATION SKILLS

Realistic skits and reproducible handouts help students develop peer mediation skills by presenting strong models and reinforcing positive messages. The first part of the program portrays a mediation session following a scuffle between two students. Stopping points permit teachers to hand out information and activity sheets pertaining to mediation’s five phases: setting ground rules, getting the story, brainstorming and choosing solutions, and closure. The second part of the program depicts a successful mediation, while part three presents an unresolved conflict and challenges students to role-play its mediation. A teacher’s guide (on disc) offers 33 reproducible handouts, scripts of the scenarios, a bibliography, and a list of contact organizations. Grades 5–9. Color. 30 minutes. Sunburst. ©1996.