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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Invite students to role-play different ways of managing their behaviour when they have strong feelings.
• Have students use print or video materials to compare and contrast the variety of ways in which characters:

• express feelings and emotions
• initiate, maintain, or end friendships
• accept or evade responsibility for choices

• Create a wheel with sections showing various feelings. Have students use the wheel to describe their own feelings or those of characters in literature.
• Post information about school or community programs that contribute to a safe environment (e.g., peer mediation training, school crossing guard programs, playground monitor programs). Invite students to suggest how these programs can make the community a safer place.
• Following conflict incidents that occur at school or are covered in the news, focus student attention on how these situations could have been prevented or avoided. Highlight missed opportunities for responsible decision making. Follow with independent reflection (e.g., journal writing).
• Have students think of stories they have read in which a relationship had to end (e.g., the friend moved away, became abusive, or died). Ask them to describe how the other characters dealt with the loss. As a class, generate a list of ways to terminate relationships.
• Have students create stories describing how someone sets out to make a new friend.
• Discuss ways in which peer pressure, self-talk, and achievement of personal goals affect self-esteem. Have students create scenes or stories to illustrate each of these factors at work in someone’s life (e.g., building or diminishing someone’s self-esteem).

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• After activities in which students analyse relationships, have them create summaries of their learning. Look for evidence of students’ abilities to:

• describe how to be a good friend
• identify ways to initiate relationships
• identify various events or factors that can affect personal relationships
• demonstrate their understanding of how relationships can change over time
• describe positive ways to deal with loss

• As a class, develop a list of things students can do to develop one another’s self-esteem. This might include:

• encourage one another to try new skills
• praise each other for jobs well done
• avoid putdowns
• acknowledge one another’s strengths
• involve others in their activities

Periodically, ask students to write in their journals about when they or others have used these strategies to build another’s self-esteem.

  Print Materials

• Focus on Bullying: A Prevention Program for Elementary School Communities
• HeartSmart Kids (4–7)
• Working It Out: Tools For Everyday Peacemakers

 Video

• Being Safe

  Multimedia

• B.C. Life Skills
• Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum, Grades 4–5
• Student WorkSafe 4 Module

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