Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 4
• Studio: Human Relations Media
• ASIN: 1555481582

Editorial Reviews

Combining entertaining video dramas with lesson plans, student activities, overheads and a teachers resource book, this series of four videos and print curriculum helps students learn all-important interpersonal conflict resolution skills. Focusing on the proven technique that students learn more by exercising their own critical thinking skills, this series puts the students themselves in control of the process. Based on the STAR problem-solving steps of Stop, Talk, Act, Reflect the four dramas showcase different resolutions to common school conflicts that students will identify with. After trying out the four steps students identify the conflict resolution strategies known as APE - Active listening, Problem solving and Emotional awareness. After watching the videos and participating in the learning activities your students will:  Recognize that people can work together to resolve conflicts  Recognize that there are different perspectives in a conflict that could be right or wrong  Gain confidence that each person is a potential mediator of conflicts  Understand that conflicts are learning opportunities Part One: Rat Fink Two best friends are discussing an upcoming test when it is revealed that one of the girls is aware that a classmate has stolen the test and is selling copies of it to other students. The conflict explodes when the girls disagree about their responsibility to report this violation of school rules and the repercussions of their actions. Part Two: Freaks Part Three: Party Time Part Four: Frick and Frack Closed-captioned Running Time: 4-10 minute videos Close Captioned Includes: Includes:  Four 10-minute videos  Teachers resource book  Student handouts  Overhead transparencies