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7 Ways to Teach Kids to Manage Their Own Conflicts

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Strengthening students' capacity to evaluate their problems and consider a number of solutions leads to better, less impulsive conflict resolution.

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Students should be invited into the process of managing learning in the classroom. Here are some tools many teachers have used to empower students to self-manage.

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As educators, we have so many tasks to handle each and every school day. Student absences, assessments, phone calls, meetings -- these can pile up on our plates. Classroom management is often considered one of the tasks we need to take on. While this is true to some extent, perhaps we can take some of the classroom management load off the teacher and put it on the students themselves. Management doesn't have to be, nor should it be, something teachers decide or handle on their own. Students should be invited into the process of managing learning in the classroom. Here are some tools many teachers have used to empower students to self-manage.

Team Operating Agreements

Agreements or contracts created or co-created with students can be a great tool to help them own their challenges when it comes to self-management. While you might have class or school norms, students may not find a true attachment to them. When students create norms, they are more likely to follow them. In addition, students can create norms and agreements that are personalized. While one team might need an agreement about keeping their hands and feet to themselves, another might need one about the free expression of ideas. Norms and agreements should meet the needs of students, not simply be imposed upon them. When students help create the norms, it's more likely that they will meet the students' needs.

Task Lists

In addition, students may need scaffolds to organize their thinking, planning, and overall work. They can use task lists to assign tasks to specific team members. Sometimes these sheets have places for teachers, team leaders, and others to sign off when tasks are completed. Scrumy is an online tool I have used with students to organize their work -- it functions as an interactive planning tool. Task lists are also great tools for assessment and conversations on equitable collaboration.

Checklists and Rubrics

Of course, rubrics and checklists are tried-and-true tools for self-management. There is nothing new here, but it's a good reminder that assessment tools are also great management tools. They promote reflection and goal setting, as well as ownership of the work. Checklists and rubrics are more powerful when they are co-created with students, as students tend to understand and take ownership of expectations. Keep checklists and rubrics available to students and plan intentional time for students to use them to assess themselves and their peers, to help manage projects, and to keep constant momentum in the learning process.

Time Management Logs

Using time management logs, students document how long they spend on specific tasks, assignments, or collaborative work. They can do this over the course of a week or longer. The intent is to document and then reflect upon the time they spend learning and working. The log may surprise students and inspire them to use their time more efficiently.

Flexible Seating and Spaces

I'm a big fan of classrooms that have a variety of places for students to work. Some students need quiet zones while others need collaborative tables. Some students work well with exercise balls as seats while others prefer standing desks. There are many possibilities for meeting students' needs in classroom seating and arrangement. Meeting those needs can promote student ownership of how and where they work and learn. As the teacher, you can coach them through the process of selecting appropriate spaces to work and learn, and students will learn to self-manage this choice as well.

Reflection and Goal Setting

All of the tools above are completely ineffective unless they are paired with reflection time. Just as we take time to reflect on content learning, we also need to take time to reflect on the learning process. All of the tools above provide great opportunities for students to reflect on how they have learned in targeted ways and to set goals. Learning logs are a great tool for this as well, as they promote the process of learning, not just the product. Don't forget reflection on self-management -- it's critical.

Remember, the greatest tool for management is engagement. Even when our students are engaged, they still need tools to manage themselves. Different tools work for different students, so try experimenting with a mix of the tools above to have students take more ownership of managing their learning process.

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Students should be invited into the process of managing learning in the classroom. Here are some tools many teachers have used to empower students to self-manage. © Lise Gagne/Getty Images As educators, we have so many tasks to handle each and every school day.

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How to make an engaging PYP exhibition that everyone will remember? Turn it into an experience!
Let's be honest, student exhibition presentations can be quite boring.

Whether it is because a student is reading from a Power Point presentation or taking you through the material they have stuck to their poster board, quite often the presentation portion of the exhibition fails to convey the excitement and passion of the inquiry. The information can be extremely interesting, but without a well thought out method to engage the audience the presentation is likely to be a bit of a letdown.

This year I had the chance to lead my first exhibition and this dilemma was at the front of my mind. Teaching is my second career, my first being in advertising as an art director, so I have a passion for ideas and how to present them in an engaging way. I wanted to share this passion with my students to show them how to create interesting presentations and to present their learning to others in a fun, interesting and engaging manner.

We chose to challenge the students to think about their presentations in a different fashion, as an experience - an experience that included the audience and would allow the viewer to interact with the exhibitors and receive information in unique and creative ways. The goal was to remake the exhibition presentation into something that would stick with the audience member, regardless of whether they were students, parents or teachers.

In order to give our students a chance at designing their presentations into these types of experiences, we knew that we could not wait until the last week to start planning and putting ideas together. Instead we tried to plant the seeds of creativity from the beginning. When the students got to school on Monday morning of the first week of exhibition, they found their classroom bare. All of the student work, the posters and the decorations had been stripped from the walls. The students were told that they were to think of their classroom as a blank canvas on which they would be designing their exhibition inquiry and eventually their exhibition presentation experience. We wanted the challenge and opportunity for something exciting to happen in the students' minds from the beginning.

As the inquiries took their shape and the students began their research process, each group carved out a section of the classroom to work in. This section was also to be the space where they would eventually build their presentation experiences. We are fortunate to have a large year 6 classroom and a small number of students, which made it possible for all three of our groups to remake their classroom into their final presentation space. I feel that this helped the students to consider their presentation possibilities from early on in the exhibition process. The results were even better than I had hoped as the concept of the presentation experience grew and formed at the same time as the rest of the inquiry.

Week by week we removed more and more things from the classroom to give our students the room to create. Desks, shelves and computers were relocated to the hallway as our students reshaped their classroom. The students worked closely with their mentors to help them conceive and create their ambitious presentation spaces. It was frantic as the last weeks of exhibition always tend to be, but frantic in a good way. Instead of worrying about how to fill up our poster boards, we were solving creative challenges such as how we could turn a corner of a room into a dinosaur cave or change the other side into a movie theater.

In the end the students blew me away with the presentations they created! There were three groups and here is how they engaged with the audience:

T r anspo rt a ti on/Tec h G r oup: This group inquired into the causes and effects cars, boats and devices have on the environment. They created a pollution cruise where they took passengers on an imaginary ride to the great pacific plastic garbage patch. Passengers, who were required to wear life-jackets, were shown dumps filled with toxic e-waste, shown dirty water and engaged in a discussion about car pollution after a huge car crash on land. Yes, the students had most of their information on boards, but used this as a follow-up after the cruise if passengers wanted more information.

Movie Piracy: This group inquired into the movie piracy process, people's responsibility in that process, and how China censors movies. They appropriately decided to make a movie to share their knowledge. Using PowToons they created a video to explain how the piracy process works and how people who watch downloaded movies are part of the problem. They then recorded and interviewed teachers and students asking them questions about their downloading habits. They took all this footage and edited it together into a powerful movie that they showed during exhibition. In addition, they asked audience members to become part of the process by having them vote if the movie changed their minds. The mini theater with black out curtains and a popcorn machine created the full effect.

Extinction: This group inquired into the causes and effects of extinction. They focused on the extinction of dinosaurs, the extinction of languages and the possible extinction of sharks and humans in the future. They came up with the idea of a time machine to take visitors on an imaginary journey forward and backwards in time. There was a future ocean without sharks, a cave from a mass extinction in the past and a school 200 years in the future where only 5 languages still exist. The props and details were exquisite: a magnetic shark puzzle where the various parts of the shark could be taken off to show how it is used, such as in Chinese medicine, Shark's fin soup, wallets, etc; a "possible" timeline of how languages went extinct based on real scientific predictions; and a cave made of tarps and craft paper where all the information was inside and shared in an intimate setting under small torches.

People who visited our exhibition were fully immersed in the experience. The unique environment created an atmosphere where students enjoyed teaching and enjoyed learning! While I know that all the students did a significant amount of research and learned a lot during exhibition, they may forget that knowledge over time.

What they will not forget is their experience. I hope that when they go to secondary, they will use their skills supported by the many teachers in the school to present different information in unique and creative ways.

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Jordan Rose is the PYP Coordinator and year six teacher at Zhuhai International School (ZIS). Originally from Toronto, Canada, he has spent the past 16 years living overseas and working as an international educator. He has taught at International Schools in the UAE, Honduras and China respectively, with a focus on upper elementary classroom teaching and curriculum development. Jordan also enjoys coaching basketball and participating in the activities program at ZIS. He is currently in his fifth year at Zhuhai International School.

William Applebaum is a PYP upper primary teacher. He has finished the y ear 6 exhibition at Zhuhai International School and has started the next school year at the International School of Ho Chi Minh City. Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he did not enter teaching in the traditional way, rather he started his career as a creative professional in America (in advertising and design). After seven years in the creative world, he discovered and fell in love with international teaching. He has been lucky enough to live in various places around the world. He tries to use his background to enrich his students' experience in the classroom.

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How to make an engaging PYP exhibition that everyone will remember? Turn it into an experience! Let's be honest, student exhibition presentations can be quite boring. Whether it is because a student is reading from a Power Point presentation or taking you through the material they have stuck to their poster board, quite often the presentation portion of the exhibition fails to convey the excitement and passion of the inquiry.

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Can be assigned through Toddle (digital planner!)

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Exhibitions, the culminating learning experience of the PYP, hold a special place in every PYP classroom. It gives students an opportunity to take responsibility for their learning as they actively engage in planning, presenting and assessing learning. Designed by Cindy Blackburn, this guided, visual planner will help you scaffold each step of the exhibition process while giving students agency to take ownership of their learning.

There's more!

Cindy has created learning experiences and activities for you to unpack each step of the PYPx student planner. These tools will help your students from setting up for exhibition all the way to sharing their exhibition. Get them for free now on Toddle Community!

How to use this resource:

1. Download the editable student planner

2. Edit sections to meet the needs of your students and school context

3. Make copies for each student

4. Assign the planner and begin using immediately

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Disclaimer - This resource has been produced independently of and not endorsed by the IB. Toddle's resources seek to encourage sharing of perspectives and innovative ideas for classroom teaching & learning. They are not intended to be replacements for official IB guides and publications. Views and opinions expressed by the authors of these resources are personal and should not be construed as official guidance by the IB. Please seek assistance from your school's IB coordinator and/or refer to official IB documents before implementing ideas and strategies shared within these resources in your classroom.

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Scaffold your students through each step of the PYP Exhibition with this beautiful, editable guided student planner.

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-Letter
-Requirements/expectations
-Student rubric
from Cindy Blackburn

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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-Keeping a process journal ( I know you already have one from last year.. maybe condense it a little? http://acrucialweek.blogspot.com/2017/04/pyp-exhibition-journal-printables.html )

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I've really enjoyed being an exhibition mentor for the first time this year. I was inspired to create an exhibition journal pack to share with other PYP teachers. In it are lots of templates that the students can use to build their exhibition reflection book. Of course I couldn't resist creating these gorgeous (if I do say so myself!) cover sheets.

Aside from cover sheets, here are some of the more practical resources in the pack:

Weekly reflection templates

An overall reflection template (including a Learner Profile self-assessment)

A mentor meeting template

A calendar template (for any month/year)

Suggestions for how to break down the central idea

A unit overview

Prompts for creating relevant questions

An interview record sheet

A presentation planner

A bibliography template

A blank page (to insert where necessary)

and lots more!

There are dividers for each section - (Identifying issues to be investigated, Defining the central idea and lines of inquiry, Researching and planning the inquiry, Taking action and Planning the presentation)

The pack costs just $4US and is available in my TPT store.

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-Creating a presentation MENU for students to select their presentation method of choice

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Presentation 1: Alpha's Explorers

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Presentation 2: Cyber Squad

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Global Indian International School - SMART Campus

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PYP Exhibition 2021 - Young Experts on Global Issues

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These lessons can be a great starting point to introduce all 17 sustainable goals and get familiar with each one through inquiry.

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The United Nations introduced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) in 2015 as a global plan to reduce poverty, protect nature and enable everyone to live in peace and prosperity. But what would a sustainable world look like? This short video introduces these 17 SDGs:

These 17 goals of sustainable development should be achieved by the year 2030. That's just 10 years from now. To achieve the goals, countries, companies, and citizens should all work together, and share the responsibility to spread the word about them. It's therefore crucial to introduce SDGs to students as well.

If you never heard of them before, it's time to take action! Being aware of the challenges this world holds is the first step. That's why I made some interactive and ready-to-use lesson plans about SDGs. Just copy the link and share the activities with your students. We have 20 more digitale lesson activities that touch certain parts of the SDG's. Go check out our awareness days widgets to find ready-to-use lesson plans.

10 Lesson activities on the SDG's

Start with the video you just saw, and show it to your students. This way, your students immediately know the meaning of a 'SDG' and what you're talking about. From here, you can start digging your way through all the SDGs.

Let your students solve the jigsaw puzzle. When finished, give them a few minutes to check out all the SDGs.

This flashcards exercise gives your students a clearer view of what particular goals mean. Use this exercise to drill the goals so your students will never forget them. Of course, these are just the basics, and you can dig deeper on every goal. For example, what does it really mean to "Ensure sustainable management of water and sanitation for all." What actions need to be taken in order to achieve this goal?

If you're not a fan of flashcards, you can always use this hotspot image and let your students discover the true meaning of all the SDGs. Same content, different format. What also might help is to give some sustainable development examples to your students so that they understand the context better.

5. Classroom discussion

Pull the SDGs in a classroom discussion. Gather around in a circle, and ask your students to find a small object that represents them. Put a bottle (or other tall object) in the middle of the circle, and staring bringing out the different sustainable development goals. Students now have to place their objects in the area before them. They can place it in front of their feet, or place it next to the bottle in the middle. They can also place it somewhere in between.

The place of their object defines the importance of the SDG for that particular student. It doesn't matter which one they choose, whether it's quality education or the importance of the climate. The closer the object to the bottle in the middle, the more this goal means to them. Ask them why they feel this goal is more important than the other goals. Of course, these are all subjective opinions, so don't judge your students for their opinions, but ask them to elaborate on their statement.

Go goals is a ready-to-use board game that helps children understand the Sustainable Development Goals, and how each of us can contribute to realizing the goals.

Unfortunately, as interesting and useful as this game may be, it requires a lot of paper and toner, since you need a kit for every group of students. That's why I made a digital version of this game in the next resource instead.

This digital board game contains the same questions as the original paper board game. Just click on the little white circle to get the questions about a certain goal.

For yet another version of this game, check out the next resource.

8. Go Goals - Combined version

This version uses one set of original cards, and a digital randomness widget. In this version, you have to print the cards and arrange them according to the numbers. Students take their turn spinning the wheel and answer the question about a selected goal.

Finally, use this quiz to check your students' knowledge about SDG's.

When all your students succeed in the quiz, think about setting up your own project. Help to achieve one of the Sustainable Development Goals on the list by taking action yourself! Check out how you and your students can help by just doing simple things. This checklist will make your students think about the decisions they make at home or in school. Stimulate them to step up and use their voice to empower their parents and family as well and to show them the importance of sustainable development. Ask your students to tick off the steps they've already taken. Ask them to do it again at the end of this year.

Would you like to see additional lessen activities on SDG? Check out this blog post.

Wrap up

That's it! I really hope you can use these SDG lesson materials in your classroom. Of course, there are many more resources on teaching SDGs.

Share your own ideas in the Teaching with BookWidgets Facebook group. Also, don't forget to follow BookWidgets on Twitter to stay up to date on all new blog posts!

Author Bio

Božica Borbaš is a Croatian math teacher and an enthusiastic BookWidgets user.

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10 Ready-to-use Lesson Plans on the Sustainable Development Goals

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Informational video for each sustainable goal.
(Tip: Good starting point for students to learn more about each goal before choosing a topic)

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14.  What is the PYP Exhibition - Part 2: A Step-by-Step guide by Susan Powers

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Grade Five PYP Exhibition Showcase 2021 | SCIS Hongqiao

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