Wicked Project

Problem:

• How difficult it is to keep the students engaged while teaching them.
• Students often don't have the attention span to listen to me verbally explain ways to deal with conflict resolution.
• The kids don’t fully understand how to apply the techniques I am teaching into their own peer conflicts.

Solution:

• Video tape the student’s role playing different conflict resolution scenarios.
• Watch the videos together as a class and talk about the strategies that were used and what worked well to solve the problem.
• Have the students practice these strategies with a partner.
• Use a Flip Camera for video taping.

TP

I chose video as my technology and role-playing as my pedagogy because using both video and role-playing allow for an increased awareness of new and multiple perspectives. At this young age level, children are so egocentric that it is hard for them to see from another person's perspective. Giving my students the opportunity to see these types of situations from their peers’ point of view would make it easier for them to grasp the concepts being taught.

TC

Using video as my technology to teach the content of conflict resolution makes it so students are able to see how to use these important conflict resolution skills as they are being taped from real life situations at the perspective of their peers. Also, the videos can be archived and referred to throughout the year whenever the students are having a difficult time with resolving that particular issue.

 

PC

 

Teaching conflict resolution skills in this fashion gives me the opportunity to teach the students using peer examples that are more meaningful than listening to an adult talk about using these strategies in an abstract example that they cannot fully comprehend.

I think the best way to go about implementing this plan would be to organize the videos by the type of strategy they are focusing on and use the flip camera to save them on a flash drive. Once the videos are saved on a flash drive, I will be able to access them on any computer and show them to my students on a projector in a whole group setting. As the students are watching the videos, I will pause it at certain parts to have group discussions on what strategies should be used for the particular situation being shown.

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