How to Resolve Conflict Peacefully

Created Feb. 7, 2024 by Ibtisam Alhasaf

Lesson Title

How to Resolve Conflict Peacefully

Abstract

The following lesson guide combines the use of instructional goals, instructional objectives, learning activities, evaluation techniques, and resources to serve as a reference for health education. The guide coincides with The National Health Education Standards (NHES). This project is meant to serve as a guideline for teachers interested in expanding psychological health curricula.  It focuses on presenting different pictures of conflict and some strategies of responding to and handling conflict. This lesson will help to improve students' communication skills, listening skills, maintain healthy relationships, resolve conflicts peacefully, excel in school, and eventually get and keep jobs. Through this lesson, students will understand that conflicts can be de-escalated, resolved peacefully, and become an opportunity for personal growth based on the choices they make and the strategies they utilize to resolve conflicts.

Learner Audience / Primary Users

The primary users for this lesson plan will be teachers teaching how to resolve conflict peacefully. It targets students within secondary education, but it also available to be modified for additional audience.  

Educational Use

  • Curriculum / Instruction

Language

English

Material Type

  • Instructional Material
  • Images
  • Reading

Keywords

  • Style Her Empowered
  • 21st Century Skills
  • Handle conflict
  • Share thoughts
  • Public speaking
  • Communication skills
  • Critical Thinking
  • Discussion
  • Listening skills
  • Paraphrase
  • Describe scenarios

Time Required for Lesson

60 minutes

Targeted Skills

Key skills covered in this lesson include:

  • Share thoughts
  • Public speaking
  • Communication skills
  • Critical Thinking
  • Discussion skills
  • Listening skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Brainstorming skills
  • Recall information
  • Group work skills
  • Reading skills
  • Phrasing skills

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, the learner should be able to:

  • Learners will be able to appropriately respond to and handle conflict.
  • Learners will be able to control conflict in their life and turn it into opportunities for learning, growing, and changing for the better.
  • Learners will be able to justify their opinions and share their feelings about a situation without harming self or others.
  • Learners will be able to use strategies to cool off themselves in conflict instead of increase it in intensity “escalate”.

Prior Knowledge

Before beginning this lesson, students may need to have a basic knowledge of conflict definition. Through the lesson, they will learn more and build upon their understanding.

Required Resources

  • Various Picture of conflict.
  • “Conflict Resolution strategy” hand out.
  • Note and Pencils.

Lesson Author & License

  • Lesson Author: Ibtisam Alhasaf
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