Mallet School STARS
Conflict or disagreement is normal and often happens when children get together. However, hurtful words, gestures, or physical attack are unacceptable ways to deal with conflict and disagreement at school.
Our goal is to teach several positive ways to deal with these difficult situations.
To do this, we are asking students who have minor problems to try at least two of the following ideas:
These ideas are collectively known as “Kelso’s Choices”. With Kelso’s Choices, students are taught how to differentiate between big and small problems. Small problems are problems that children are smart and mentally and emotionally strong enough to solve on their own, and big problems are problems that are too difficult for children to solve and need adult intervention.
Your child’s guidance lessons will include distinguishing between big problems and small problems, indicating adults they can trust with a big problem, and practicing all nine of Kelso’s Choices for solving small problems. By using this plan, we believe that our students will develop effective problem-solving skills that they can use again and again. It will help them to deal with conflict in a positive manner and to make appropriate decisions. Knowing what to do will help students reduce the stress and number of conflicts that have at school and in life.
Here's a link to Mrs. Leso's page: http://mallettguidance.weebly.com
Our goal is to teach several positive ways to deal with these difficult situations.
To do this, we are asking students who have minor problems to try at least two of the following ideas:
- Go to another game or activity
- Share and take turns
- Respectfully talk it over and listen to each other
- Walk away from the problem
- Ignore the problem behavior
- Tell the person to stop the problem behavior
- Apologize
- Make a deal or compromise
- Wait to cool off
These ideas are collectively known as “Kelso’s Choices”. With Kelso’s Choices, students are taught how to differentiate between big and small problems. Small problems are problems that children are smart and mentally and emotionally strong enough to solve on their own, and big problems are problems that are too difficult for children to solve and need adult intervention.
Your child’s guidance lessons will include distinguishing between big problems and small problems, indicating adults they can trust with a big problem, and practicing all nine of Kelso’s Choices for solving small problems. By using this plan, we believe that our students will develop effective problem-solving skills that they can use again and again. It will help them to deal with conflict in a positive manner and to make appropriate decisions. Knowing what to do will help students reduce the stress and number of conflicts that have at school and in life.
Here's a link to Mrs. Leso's page: http://mallettguidance.weebly.com