Sixth Grade
LESSON 1: Friendship
Understanding and practicing skills that maintain friendship help children's social-emotional adjustment. Children's friendships strengthen when they are trustworthy, show they have good intentions, and focus on friends' good qualities. In todays classroom guidance lesson students explore why trust is important in friendship and determine ways to build trust in a friendship.
LESSON 2: Conflict Between Friends
Conflict is common in a friendship. One challenge is managing emotional reactions to avoid destructive statements or actions during a conflict. Learning constructive ways of resolving conflicts results in a stronger friendship. Today students will learn and practice managing emotions during a conflict. They will generate and evaluate possible solutions to a problem using problem solving skills.
LESSON 3: Are You Mad at Me?
Students have learned that conflict happens in all friendships and that people make mistakes and do things that they regret. By learning to apologize and take responsibility for mistakes children will be able to keep and strengthen their friendships. Today we branistorm ways to make amends and then role play making amends.
LESSON 4: Refusing to Be Bullied
Once children recognize bullying behavior, they need to determine whether it is safe to use refusal strategies. Children who are bullied often feel powerless. Being assertive and using refusal strategies can decrease the stress a child feels when bullied and decrease the chance of that child of being bullied in the future. Today we role play a variety of situations and students evaluate the situations to decide whether it is safe to refuse bullying.
LESSON 5: Reporting Bullying
Students can try many things to refuse bullying; however, adult intervention is sometimes required. Some children think that telling adults won't help. Children also fear retaliation from peers. In todays guidance lesson students will learn when to report bullying immediately, how to help a friend who is being bullied, and practice clear communication when reporting bullying using the four W's. We also learn the difference between tattling and reporting.
 | | | |  | | About the Steps to Respect Curriculum | Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program is the classroom
guidance curriculum being used in grades 4, 5, and 6. The primary goal
of this schoolwide program is to help create a safe, caring,
respectful, learning environment in which bullying is not tolerated.
As
part of the Steps to Respect, students in your child's class will learn
new skills to help them build friendships and deal with bullying. For
example they will learn how to:
- make friends
- join group activities
- manage conflicts
- recognize, refuse, and report bullying
Parent
involvement is an important element in the program. Throughout the
program please check the monthly school newsletter for informative
handouts. Try the suggested ideas to help your child practice Steps to
Respect skills and help join us in creating and maintaining a safe,
positive school environment. |
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