Resources for Teaching about Peace and Conflict Resolution in Educational Settings

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Slides and links handout from a session by Bill Warters presented at the Peace and Justice Studies Association conference in Waterloo, Ontario on October 19, 2013.

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CONFLICT LEARNING DESIGNS

Resources for Teaching Peace and Conflict Resolution in Educational Settings

Bill Warters, Wayne State University October 18, 2013, PJSA Annual Conference, Waterloo, Ontario

http://www.creducation.org/resources/PSJA_2013_Handout_Bill_Warters.pdf

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Director, MA in Dispute Resolution at Wayne State University in Detroit!

Ph.D. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, PARC!

BA in Conflict Resolution from U.C. Santa Cruz!

Webmaster for CREducation.org, a resource clearninghouse for the Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education (CRETE) initiative

ABOUT YOU?

Teaching Venue!

Special Interests!

Degree of Tech “Savvyness”

ADR TECH BLOG

http://www.campus-adr.org/techblog Since 2005!

CAMPUS-ADR.ORG

Received U.S. Dept of Ed FIPSE Grant in 2000 to promote and support mediation in higher education

http://campus-adr.org

MEDIATION ROLEPLAYS

http://www.campus-adr.org/Training_Center/roleplaysearch/

MEDIATION PROGRAM STARTUP TOOLS

Guidelines, sample forms, ideas on advertising, evaluation

http://www.campus-adr.org/CR_Services_Center/

CLASSROOM CONFLICT IN SCHOOLS IS NOT NEW

In Edward Eggleston's (1871/1984) fictional work The Hoosier Schoolmaster, novice teacher Ralph Hartsook is warned by the trustee:!

Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know. Why the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes.... They'd pitch you out of doors, sonny, neck and heels, afore Christmas. (p. 11) !

So began Hartsook's first year of teaching in a one-room school in Flat Crick District during the late 1800s. So much for the idyllic past!

http://www.creducation.org/cre/home/about_us/about_crete

CRETE MISSION

CRETE works with teacher education at pre-service and in-service levels to develop teachers’ critical skills in conflict education and classroom management.

Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation On the web at www.creducation.org

CONFLICT RESOLUTION CURRICULUM INTEGRATION

A 3-year project in the late 1990s in seven middle schools across the nation (Louisiana, Maine, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, and California)

SOME RESEARCH RESULTS

A pretest-posttest control group comparison design in each state examined the effect of teaching condition (NCIP experienced teaching, NCIP new teaching, and control teaching) on over a thousand seventh- and eighth-grade students’ emotional and conflict competence (conflict orientation, emotional management, perspective taking, and hostile attribution) and classroom climate. !

Although the NCIP conditions did not significantly influence emotional management, it did have positive impacts on students’ perspective taking and use of problem-solving strategies. NCIP has extremely strong positive impacts on classroom climate.

SOME RESEARCH RESULTS

Across sites, students in NCIP classes taught by returning, experienced NCIP teachers consistently reported more positive climate (overall and in terms of the dimensions of teacher support, student support, cohesion, safety, and constructive conflict management) than students in classes taught by new NCIP teachers. However, students in either NCIP class perceived a much more positive climate than students in control classes. !

NCIP impact on classroom climate increased throughout the year, while perceived climate in control classes usually became notably more negative throughout the year.

WWW.CREDUCATION.ORG

Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation

DIRECTORY OF CRE ORGANIZATIONShttp://www.creducation.org/cre/global_cre/world_regions/

international_cre_directory

CRE LEARNING MODULES

Based on CRETE Skills Infusion Matrix!

Designed to reinforce learning through interaction!

Intended for Re-use!

Easy to Update with New Information!

Feedback Form at end

http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/learning_modules_and_activities

EXAMPLES FROM COLLECTION

MODULES ARE BUILT WITH A FREE TOOL

Called eXe !

Open source tool from New Zealand built on top of the Firefox browser platform!

We developed our own “theme” to give a consistent look to the project

http://exelearning.org

VIDEO COLLECTIONhttp://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/online_videos!

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION SLIDES - LOTS!

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TOPICAL PAGES DRAW ON OUR CATALOGhttp://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/cre_practices_descriptions

FULL CATALOG IS SEARCHABLEhttp://www.creducation.org/catalog/

More than 650

items

INDEXED BY OAISTER

http://oaister.worldcat.org

OAIster is a global shared catalog indexing more than

900 collections of open access materials

NOW IN LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE!

OCLC, the library cooperative that runs the Worldcat.org online library, is now integrating the OAIster collection into their First Search library database package!

All Libraries with First Search get this - part of the base package. This means most colleges and public libraries...

EXAMPLE FROM WSU

JUVENILE CORRECTIONS OFFICER TRAINING

http://www.creducation.org/cre/jdo/!

TEACHERS WALL CALENDARS - WITH ACR ED SECTION HELP

http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/calendar

MANUAL ON STARTING PEACE STUDIES PROGRAMS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES!

http://creducation.org/cre/goto/ccps

CONFLICT RESOLUTION DAY

Third Thursday of Oct. each year. October 17th this year.

http://www.acrnet.org/crday/

PoetryContest

http://www.creducation.

org/cre/home/conflict_resolution

_day_materials

CR INTERACTIVES COLLECTION

www.creducation.org/cre/crday/games/

CREDUCATION STATS

Steady Growth in Website Trafficbuilds to 11,000 unique visits monthly

One key indicator of a useful web resource is the number of unique visitors that browse to the site in a given month. This statistic is a good measure of site growth because it filters out repeat visits by the same user IP address during that month so as not to overweight visits by one very eager visitor or busy staff member. As the above graph indicates, CREducation.org has experienced steady growth since launch, reaching a monthly high of more than 11,000 unique visits in November of 2010. In terms of overall content delivered, another useful measure is the number of full pages (featuring combined text and graphics, not just server “hits”) served. The Conflict Resolution in Education clearinghouse passed a milestone in December of 2010 when it served up its Six Millionth page. As this report is being compiled the site is being moved onto a brand-new server that will provide faster access speeds and real-time redundant backup to ensure that CREducation.org can continue to serve the CRETE project and the broader CRE community well into the future.

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No Teacher Left Behind

DEMOCRACYIS.US/ACTIVE

PREZI PROMOTING IThttp://prezi.com/qs82btp8gejr/democracy-is-us/

DEMOCRACYIS.US/ACTIVE

DEMOCRACYIS.US/ACTIVE

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

CRE CATALOG BY CATEGORY

Peace Education Category

USIP’S BUILDINGPEACE.ORG

U.S. NATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY RESOURCES

TEACHERS WITHOUT BORDERS

PEACEFIRST ACTIVITY COLLECTION

PEERMEDIATORS.ORG

PEACEONEDAY MATERIALS

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCAR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING TOOLS

http://scar.gmu.edu/experientiallearningproject/

for Undergraduates

GMU ELU EXAMPLES

CRE IPAD APP 2.0

Get first edition in the app store by searching for “Conflict Resolution Education”!

Direct Link - https://appsto.re/i6FT2TM!

Want to do a new version!

What should be included?!

Who should be our audience?!

Games?

THANK YOU

w.warters@wayne.edu

Conflict Learning Designs Session at PJSA 2013

Background on Presenter Bill Warters w.warters@wayne.edu @bwartersFaculty Profile at http://comm.wayne.edu/profile.php?id=499Director, MA in Dispute Resolution at Wayne State University in Detroithttp://madr.comm.wayne.edu

Useful Materials Bill Warters had a hand in creating:Campus Conflict Resolution Resources Clearinghouse - http://www.campus-adr.org

Mediation Roleplays collection - http://www.campus-adr.org/Training_Center/content/roleplays/ADR Tech Blog - http://www.campus-adr.org/techblog/Campus Mediation Program Startup Materials - http://www.campus-adr.org/CR_Services_Center/

Conflict Resolution Education Resource Center - http://creducation.orgCRE Practice Area summaries - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/cre_practices_descriptionsLearning Modules Collection - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/learning_modules_and_activitiesVideos - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/online_videosSlides from CRE and Peace Ed conferences - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/conference_presentationsResource Catalog - http://www.creducation.org/catalog/Juvenile Corrections Officer Training Curriculum - http://www.creducation.org/cre/jdo/CRE Teacher Wall Calendars - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/calendarManual on Starting Peace Studies Programs at Community Colleges - http://creducation.org/cre/goto/ccpsCRE Summit Conferences - http://creducation.org/cre/goto/creconf

Democracyis.us creative project - http://democracyis.us/active/Nonviolence History Timeline - http://democracyis.us/active/nvhistory/Resources for teaching democracy - http://democracyis.us/active/resources/Calendar of World Civic and Religious Holidays - http://democracyis.us/fullcalendar/calendar.html

iPad App for Conflict Resolution Educators - created by Bill WartersGet it in the app store by searching for Conflict Resolution Education Direct Link - https://appsto.re/i6FT2TM

Other Good Peace Ed Curricular CollectionsCREducation Peace Ed catalog collection at http://www.creducation.org/catalog/index.php?P=BrowseResources&ParentId=483USIP BuildingPeace.org

http://www.buildingpeace.org/train-resources/educators/peacebuilding-toolkit-educatorsNational Peace Academy Peace, Peacebuilding & PeaceLearning guides

http://nationalpeaceacademy.us/edresources/study-guide/childrens-curriculum/http://nationalpeaceacademy.us/edresources/study-guide/youth-curriculum/

Teachers Beyond Borders Peace Ed Teacher Prep Curriculumhttp://teacherswithoutborders.org/programs/core-programs/peace-educationOnline courses - http://nixty.com/c/twb

PeaceFirst Digital Activity Centerhttp://www.peacefirst.org/digitalactivitycenter/

PeerMediators.org Middle School Peer Mediation Curriculum - http://www.peermediators.orgPeaceOneDay

http://peaceoneday.org/education-resources-area/USA Version - online viewing example

http://content.yudu.com/A29wse/USAEducRes2013/