Teaching middle schoolers to handle conflict is an important social skill for adolescents to acquire. With Everyday Speech’s Handling Conflict with Friends lesson plan, students will learn how to approach disagreements with their peers in a step-by-step process. To teach your next middle school lesson on handling conflict make sure to download this free goal poster and lesson plan!
Teaching Middle Schoolers to Handle Conflict
Conflicts can arise often for children and adolescents with weaknesses in perspective-taking, self-regulation, and problem-solving. This lesson highlights how to teach middle schoolers to handle conflict in a slow, step-by-step process that removes emotions so that sound decisions can be made with everyone’s feelings in mind.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Handling Conflicts Goal Poster
1. Have a Discussion About Conflict
Start by having a discussion with your middle school students about their experiences with conflict. Did they get into a disagreement with a friend? Had trouble compromising with a classmate during a group project? Discuss what characterizes a conflict and how people can experience different perspectives and feelings within the same situation.
2. Use Our Free Handling Conflicts with Friends Goal Poster
The free PDF is our Handling Conflicts with Friends Goal Poster! Use this goal poster with your middle schoolers to break down the steps to approaching a conflict. Download, print, and hang the goal poster in your classroom to reinforce the concept of handling conflicts with friends.
3. Use Role Play to Practice Handling Conflict
Now that your middle school students have an understanding of the step-by-step approach they can take to handle conflict, use role-play scenarios to practice. Either brainstorm different scenarios or give creative freedom to your middle schoolers to brainstorm their own conflict scenarios.
Sample Video:
If you didn’t know, we offer a free 30-day trial where you can use our thousands of video lessons & Social-Emotional Learning materials like worksheets and web games!
Related Blog Posts:
Free Middle School Friendship Skills Material
