Why dispute resolution?
Students can understand other people’s problems and disputes well
and feel different from others Students are often taken more seriously
than by adults who are further away from the children’s problems or as
Teachers, for example, are busy dealing with other everyday school tasks
are.
Disputing students can decide for themselves to contact the mediators
to contact, you can
but also by teachers or classmates
to be asked to do so. However, dispute resolution can only be successful if the disputants
ultimately want to resolve their dispute themselves (principle of voluntariness).
As neutral companions, the mediators help the younger students to find a solution, they don’t give any Advice, are neither police officers nor
lawyers or judges.
What is dispute resolution?
In a dispute resolution meeting, there should be a common agreement from both
Conflict parties find an accepted solution to the problem, so that in the end both
Sides can feel like winners (win-win principle). Disputants should reflect on the situation that triggered the dispute and reconsider their own point of view.
and take joint responsibility for solving the problem together.
Training
In the one-year dispute mediator training that ours Social worker Ms. Ersöz
and the teachers Ms. Niessen and Ms. Emmrich in the two-hour course
Complementary lessons are taught by boys and girls in the 9th grade
deal with conflicts inside and outside of school.
They learn that they can resolve conflicts themselves without having to turn to adults. For this purpose, special communication and behavior skills are learned and trained in role-playing games data-canvas-width=”582.5600000000004″>Typical conflicts in which mediators mediate are, for example, taking away
or Throwing things down, insults and relationship conflicts.
If dispute resolution reaches its limits, e.g. B. for legally relevant
facts, far-reaching family problems or long-lasting
bullying situations, the dispute mediators refer the students to the
Advice team.
The approximately 50-hour training course ends with a practical Examination and the
awarding of a certificate.
Use
After their training, we employ the dispute mediators in the 10th year as
Class sponsors, as so-called “class mediators”.
You will be in pairs in a 5th or 6th grade or an international support class
(IFK), get to know “their” class better through several visits and
conduct small games with the students. They regularly ask whether there were any arguments in the class. This makes them trusted
contact persons for the children during breaks and beyond.
To keep the students referring to the mediators and their good offer for
Conflict resolution is something we will teach all new 5th graders to remember
Hand over the dispute mediator duck to Friedolin / Frieda and place it in the classroom. This is what it looks like:
Through the intensive use of the mediators, we strengthen the profile and the
Violence prevention concept of our school. Conversely, the
dispute mediators grow with their tasks and thus become
responsible companions of “their” classes. They often conduct mediation discussions in the schoolyard or outside the classroom. The commitment of the mediators is an important addition to our
Efforts to treat each other fairly and in resolving
Conflicts. The mediators always have their training team at their side as
supporters and advisors.
