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Solving conflicts: A lesson plan on civil communication
Overview
The lesson gives the students the chance to learn the importance of choosing the right words when there is a disagreement with others and explore a way to use civil discourse to solve conflicts and have better understanding with others
Rocio Salazar D.
Title of Lesson Plan: Solving conflicts: A lesson plan on civil communication | |||||||
Audience (Age, English Level): 12-17/ Low-Intermediate B1 | |||||||
Two Sentence Overview of the Lesson Plan: The lesson gives the students the chance to learn the importance of choosing the right words when there is a disagreement with others and explore a way to use civil discourse to solve conflicts and have better understanding with others | |||||||
Resources Needed: Whiteboard or projector Solving conflicts slides “I feel statement” handout | |||||||
Learning Objectives: -Students will be able to identify a conflict and use a strategy to resolve it by using a reflective message to express their feelings. -Students will be able to understand the power of words to give a message in order to communicate better. | |||||||
Warm-Up: (5 minutes) On the board or screen (see slide 01) show a T- chart with two columns:
Ask the students: What words make you feel happy when they are said to you? For example, nice, good, beautiful What words make you feel sad when they are said to you? For example, bad, ugly, selfish Elicit possible answers from the students and write them on the chart. After you and your students have brainstormed possible answers on the chart. Tell the students that words are powerful and can hurt people´s feelings so even if we might disagree, we need to be careful with how we use our words.
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10´ | Activities/Instructions I Feel statement IntroductionTell the students that today they are going to learn the best way to communicate and use our words specially when we are angry, upset or we have a disagreement Give the students a handout and tell them to read a conversation between Mary and Theresa in exercise No 01. Show it on the screen. After reading the text, ask the students: Why is Theresa mad? How do you think Mary feels with the way Theresa is responding? What type of words does Theresa use to talk to Mary? Could Theresa have talked to her friend in a better way? Elicit answers from the class. Tell the students that communication leads to a better understanding between people. In the conversation Theresa is just not listening, but judging and accusing her friend. She´s also using words that hurt her friend´s feelings instead of explaining how she feels about her friend´s actions. Explain the students that Theresa could have used the “I feel statement” to explain how she felt and solve a conflict instead of using words that hurt her friend´s feelings. Show it on the screen. “I feel sad and mad at you when you couldn´t come to teach me math because I trusted you and felt that you were lying at me”
Ask the students to read the “I feel statement” in section N02 of their handout and show it also on the screen. Analyze it with them:
Tell them that the final statement should look like this: I feel___________________ when you_______________because_________
Recall individual work practice Tell the students to think and write about a time when they felt that a friend or someone they know accused them of doing something and hurt their feelings because of the words they used. Give some examples and show it on the screen:
- When you broke your best friend´s cup and she thought you did it on purpose. - When a friend didn´t want you in a group work assigned by the teacher because he thought you couldn´t do it - When your mom scolded you because of something you didn´t do.
Tell the students to complete section N03 of their handout for this activity. Show it on the screen. What happened ? __________________________________________________________________ What words did this person use to hurt your feelings?___________________________ How did you feel? __________________________________________________________________ Ask volunteers to share the situation with the class.
I feel statement individual work practice Tell the students to come up with an appropriate “I feel statement” for the situation they wrote about in section 04 of their handout. Ask volunteers to share their “I feel statement” with the class
I feel statement pair work practice Tell the students to work in pairs and create a conversation with their situation resolving the conflict using the “I feel statement” After they have finished, volunteers can share their conversations with the class if time allows.
Closing and Debrief group work Remind students of the importance of words and how to use them appropriately in order not to hurt people´s feelings and avoid conflicts
Ask the students to work in groups to answer the following questions as a way to reflect on what they have learned in class that day. Show them on the board
What surprised you? What did you learn? What would you do differently next time?
Volunteers share their answer with the class.
The lesson can be used to encourage students to use civil discourse when having disagreements, to solve conflicts and manage language in civil way.
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Resources: - Solving conflicts slides - I statement handout
References: Adapted from https://www.overcomingobstacles.org/portal/en https://www.learningforjustice.org/
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