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Teaching Students To Be Peacemakers David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson The research done by David and Roger Johnson for over 12 years is about whether there is a need and a benefit to teaching students how to be peacemakers. Though their research on violence and conflict in classrooms and how kids deal with this daily, they came up with a few guideline steps to teaching students the skills to dealing with these conflicts. These steps that they developed for students to be taught on being peacemakers are: 1. They need to learn what is and is not a conflict and that conflicts potentially have many positive outcomes when managed constructively.

2. The students need to be taught how to negotiate integrative agreements to those conflicts of interest. 3. They are taught how to mediate their classmate's conflicts. 4. The teacher then implements the "Peacemaker" program once students have completed these steps of training successful.

5. Further training is provided for students to enhance and refine their skills on negotiation and mediation. There are also numerous reasons given as to why students need to be taught to resolve their own conflict and that of classmates. By doing this students will be able to learn to: a. Do their own problem solving, b.

Release psychological stress c. Lessen vandalism to property The Johnson states that if students are taught to be "Peacemakers" this will increase their achievement and long-term retention of academic materials in school. Teaching students also addresses values and moral enforcement to students and in general will make schools a more orderly and peaceful place in which all students will benefit from the positive outcome of conflict that can be realized by a higher quality of education. In summary of this article the Johnson's believe that every student needs to learn how to manage conflicts constructively because this teaches our future generations how to be prepared to manage conflicts in their career, family, community, and in all other settings of life. The more time our students spend practicing these skills, the more they will be likely to actually use these skills in their classrooms and beyond the school doors.

My personal thought on this article is that it states many clearly needed skills for our students to be taught. I feel that students need the skills to resolve their angers and conflicts, problem solve on their own with other students, and acquire the ability to even help others solve their problems as they are needed. Today there is way too much violence in our schools, on our streets and in our world. It seems to start earlier and earlier in the lives of our youth and I feel for these generations to survive and not deplete each other, they must be taught how to be "Peacemakers" and how to resolve their conflicts constructively. At Scott my kids are already being taught how to problem solve and their training begins as soon as they have their very first conflict. Many begin as early as Kindergarten to resolve conflict and some later in elementary school.

But by the time they are 5th graders they have acquired a very sharpened and useful tool on solving their own conflicts. This tool goes through them all through school and is even more helpful as they mature in to adults and venture into a world full of conflict. Conflicts are not always a bad thing, but when dealt with constructively they can enhance a students achievements in school, increase their higher-level of cognitive reasoning, give the student the ability to increase their social development, greaten the chance for a higher positive energy in the students, and strengthen the students ability to form healthy and lasting relationship with more positive feelings instead of negative ones. I feel that this article is "Right On Target" and the yes; students must be taught the steps of becoming a "Peacemaker.".