I was awarded a grant from the Orvis Risner PTA to purchase Kelso's Choice Conflict Management Skill Program . All students from Kindergarten to 5th grade will benefit from the program.
KELSO'S CHOICE: CONFLICT MANAGEMENT is a powerful and timely tool to build a vital life skill for your people in today's world. The program philosophy is simple:
Each child is smart enough and strong enough to resolve conflict. Kelso's choice assumes that all young people are capable of becoming peacemakers. Developed in 1992 and revised in 2004, 2007 and 2011 the program reflects a proven way to:
EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE with the ability to determine their own behavior, encouraging an internal locus of control and appropriate problem ownership. Statements such as "He made me do it!" and "She did it first!" become obsolete as students become accountable for their own choices
REDUCE TATTLING through a proactive, preventative approach that keeps minor problems from escalating and prevents negative attention-getting mechanisms from occurring.
SYSTEMATIZE EXPECTATIONS of students behavior and provide consistency in rules and discipline on a school-wide basis.
PROVIDE A COGNITIVE STRUCTURE for discriminating between "small" or "minor" problems young people cna resolve and "BIG" or "SERIOUS" problems that require adult intervention.
INCREASE FEELINGS OF PERSONAL COMPETENCE as young people successfully resolve conflicts, both within the structured lessons and in their own lives.
GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE AN IMPORTANT CONFLICT RESOLUTION TOOL they can use when adults are not available or readily accessible.
KELSO'S CHOICE: CONFLICT MANAGEMENT is a powerful and timely tool to build a vital life skill for your people in today's world. The program philosophy is simple:
Each child is smart enough and strong enough to resolve conflict. Kelso's choice assumes that all young people are capable of becoming peacemakers. Developed in 1992 and revised in 2004, 2007 and 2011 the program reflects a proven way to:
EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE with the ability to determine their own behavior, encouraging an internal locus of control and appropriate problem ownership. Statements such as "He made me do it!" and "She did it first!" become obsolete as students become accountable for their own choices
REDUCE TATTLING through a proactive, preventative approach that keeps minor problems from escalating and prevents negative attention-getting mechanisms from occurring.
SYSTEMATIZE EXPECTATIONS of students behavior and provide consistency in rules and discipline on a school-wide basis.
PROVIDE A COGNITIVE STRUCTURE for discriminating between "small" or "minor" problems young people cna resolve and "BIG" or "SERIOUS" problems that require adult intervention.
INCREASE FEELINGS OF PERSONAL COMPETENCE as young people successfully resolve conflicts, both within the structured lessons and in their own lives.
GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE AN IMPORTANT CONFLICT RESOLUTION TOOL they can use when adults are not available or readily accessible.