Managing Conflict and Violence in Schools
This course teaches the concepts understanding, managing and resolving conflict; understanding the role of perception in conflict; understanding and managing anger; emotional intelligence; communication and assertiveness skills; negotiation skills; problem solving; and, the importance of creating a community that is characterised by respect, tolerance, cooperation, empathy, non-discrimination, equality and justice.
Duration: 49-hour workshop/7 days
Duration: 49-hour workshop/7 days
Creating and Maintaining a Safe School
School safety involves the five ‘Ps’ of physical safety, psychological safety, policies, programmes and partnerships. PALS assists schools in designing, implementing and customising the five ‘Ps’ to make their campuses safer. This often takes the form of an initial one-day workshop followed up by the establishment of an oversight committee and the monitoring of the work of the committee by PALS until it becomes sustainable. This module normally follows the training of teachers as in the above.
Duration:
Duration:
- One-day workshop (7 hours) for persons forming programme oversight committee
- Establishment of programme implementation committee and monitoring of same – 30 hours across school year.
Critical Incident Management for Schools
Critical incidents are occurring more frequently and are bringing increasing tragedy. Schools respond in a more efficient and organised manner in times of critical incidents when they use a prepared plan. PALS assists schools to establish a critical response team and to implement a critical incident management intervention.
Duration:
Duration:
- Pre-planning with administration – 4 hours
- One-day workshop for team
- Monitoring of implementation of intervention – 15 hours
Transforming School Culture
The most significant factor affecting a school’s effectiveness is the school’s culture. PALS’ work in the area of changing the culture assists schools in focusing on the culture that exists, how to preserve desirable elements and how to transform toxic elements.
Duration: 14 hours (two-day workshop)
Duration: 14 hours (two-day workshop)
Creating a Nurturing School Climate
Culture deals with how the work of the school gets done. Climate refers to the emotional atmosphere generated. The module includes understanding conflict in the classroom; examines challenges facing students; looks at successful behaviours for the successful child; identifies teacher weapons and positive teacher attitudes; and, looks at how to create the friendly classroom.
Duration: One-day workshop (7 hours) N.B. This is a needs-based workshop that can be extended accordingly.
Duration: One-day workshop (7 hours) N.B. This is a needs-based workshop that can be extended accordingly.
Responding to Inappropriate Student Behaviour
These workshops focus on how to deal effectively with students whose behaviour interferes with the goal of working together effectively. Content areas include understanding students’ needs, analysing factors that may influence student behaviour; understanding conflict in the classroom; providing techniques for minimising student misbehaviour; handling disruptive behaviours; using problem solving to resolve behaviour problems; behaviour-management procedures; and, discipline and punishment. Opportunities are provided for the presentation and processing of real-life challenges faced by the teacher.
Duration:
Two-day (14 hours) workshop – initial workshop to present techniques. Follow-up workshop to get feedback re implementation of techniques. N.B.This is a needs-based workshop that can be extended accordingly.
Duration:
Two-day (14 hours) workshop – initial workshop to present techniques. Follow-up workshop to get feedback re implementation of techniques. N.B.This is a needs-based workshop that can be extended accordingly.
Classroom Management
Successful teachers use many types of management skills to ensure that students are consistently and actively engaged in instructional activities. These workshops explore the importance of instructional- management skills as well as proactive and prevention strategies, which ensure on-task student behaviour. The role of classroom rules – how to formulate them, enforcement and consequences – is also examined.
Duration:
Two-day (14 hours) workshop – initial workshop to present techniques. Follow-up workshop to get feedback re implementation of techniques. N.B.This is a needs-based workshop that can be extended accordingly.
Duration:
Two-day (14 hours) workshop – initial workshop to present techniques. Follow-up workshop to get feedback re implementation of techniques. N.B.This is a needs-based workshop that can be extended accordingly.
Conflict Resolution for Student Leaders
Conflict resolution training that will help student leaders as they communicate with their peers and the rest of the school community.
Duration: 28 hours.(Can be more according to desired skill level sought.)
Duration: 28 hours.(Can be more according to desired skill level sought.)
Conflict Resolution for School Resource Officers
The course consists of seven modules:
Duration: 8 –10 days
- The role and responsibilities of the SRO in creating and maintaining a safe school.
- The SRO as conflict manager and problem solver (includes understanding the nature of conflict and violence, anger management; understanding issues underlying student misbhehaviour, self-management .)
- The SRO as enforcer (includes zero tolerance and effective discipline).
- The SRO as restorative enabler (includes discipline alternatives to traditional measures)
- The SRO as socialisation agent. (includes understanding what motivates young people, mentoring, coaching)
- The role of the SRO in changing the culture. (includes notions of school climate and culture, conduct, covenant, school and community)
- The SRO in the change-management process.
Duration: 8 –10 days
Conflict Resolution for Parents and Families
Non-violent, effective methods of problem solving for parents and families. Highly interactive workshop, informative and fun, with many opportunities to learn and practise conflict -resolution strategies.
Duration:
Duration:
- Can be done as a series by PALS
- Teachers can be prepared to deliver sessions.
Conflict Resolution Education for Teachers’ Colleges
Peace education curriculum geared to meet the needs of student teachers. Includes conflict resolution, school culture and climate, and classroom management. N.B. The course is a training of trainers course.
Duration: 60 hours of workshop time. Follow-up.
Duration: 60 hours of workshop time. Follow-up.
Conflict Transformation for Communities
Communities can evolve out of conflict. Sessions focus on issues of security and safety; trust building and social ethics. Sessions are needs based. Traditional conflict resolution principles including mediation skills are taught.
Effective Schoolwide Discipline
How to achieve effective school wide discipline is the main focus of this module. Included is an examination of the following: the role of the student code of conduct; existing discipline and punishment approaches; the role of the discipline committee, the dean of discipline, and other stakeholders. Participants are introduced to the notion of an in-school suspension programme.
In-School-suspension (ISS) Programme
This programme is designed as an alternative to out-of-school (OSS) suspension. The goals of the programme include addressing the cause of the student’s inappropriate responses to school rules through social-skills building and de-escalation activities, academic assistance and follow-up procedures. The ISS programme also provides an opportunity for students to continue with their regular academic work and to receive appropriate credit for that work. Students that receive an OSS do not have these same opportunities.
Leadership Training for Students
Includes the following components: qualities of a leader; the leader’s power, influence, and authority; effective communication; values; decision making; problem solving; creative thinking; ethics and decision making; team building; appropriate risk taking; conflict resolution; public speakingd. 40 hours
Mediation
Students and adults are trained to act as neutral third parties between disputing parties who are unable to solve problems on their own. Schools are assisted to establish peer mediation programmes.
Phase 1: 25 hours
Phase 2: 15 hours
Phase 1: 25 hours
Phase 2: 15 hours
Anger Management
Fostering the understanding that anger-producing situations are problems that need to be solved; developing emotional intelligence; planning alternatives that will get the desired behaviour; developing the skills for preserving relationships; anger-management plans.
14 hours/2 days
14 hours/2 days
Conflict Resolution for Leaders
Twenty-hour workshop that could be extended to a 40-hour programme. Conflict resolution training that will make it easier for leaders to teach people the best ways to operate as communicators, negotiators, mediators, and arbitrators. Suitable both for new leaders as well as experienced leaders who are looking for new perspectives. Also suitable for persons who need to know more about conflict resolution for professional and personal development.
Conflict Resolution for the Workplace
Workshops designed to help individuals, work teams and organisations cope constructively with conflict. Presentations and experiential learning activities are offered to address a wide range of situations.