To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are five (5) self-mentoring lesson plans appropriate for grades five to eight.
Each lesson includes nine sections:
Section 1: Lesson Objectives
Section 2: K-W-L MODEL discussion (‘K’ and ‘W’ questions)
Section 3: Vocabulary
Section 4: Story
Section 5: Popcorn Review
Section 6: Role-Play
Section 7: Bloom’s Taxonomy discussion questions
Section 8: Writing assignment
Section 9: K-W-L MODEL discussion (‘L’ questions)
These field-tested lessons are totally self-contained. They come with teaching posters and role-play downloads – all for FREE. Everything you need is there for you simply by clicking on the links. Feel free to copy and paste them onto your computer so that you can use them with your classroom students.
One of the ways students learn about character education techniques, conflict resolution strategies, and anti-bullying processes is to try them on for size. Through the use of engaging stories and fun role-plays about realistic middle school students, young people start to incorporate the concepts taught in each lesson.
These lessons were all utilized in a class called ‘Communication Skills’. The author, Debbie Dunn, taught over 500 middle school students (Grades 5-8) a year for five years until a budget-cut eliminated many of the school’s special extracurricular programs. During that time period, she created over 3000 pages of curriculum based on real middle school conflict resolution and anti-bullying issues.
For the benefit of middle school students, middle school teachers, guidance counselors, and concerned parents, the author posts many of these lesson plans on Examiner.com. Feel free to subscribe to Debbie Dunn’s school conflict resolution Examiner page should you wish to keep abreast of each lesson as it gets posted.
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Self-mentoring Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Hyena’s dilemma at a fork in the path
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for Self-Mentoring and displaying other good character traits of Self Control, Responsibility, Trustworthiness, Honesty, Tolerance, Allowing, Caring, Giving, Justice, Fairness, Leadership, and Valuing and Respecting Self. The story is called "Hyena's dilemma at a fork in the path."====================
Self-mentoring Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Jacob Listens to his Inner Wisdom
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for Self-Mentoring when you are a victim of name-calling. The way you choose to respond can either lead to a LOSE-LOSE confrontation where both people feel like they lost, a WIN-LOSE confrontation where only one person feels like the victor, or a WIN-WIN confrontation where both people manage to come out feeling like winners. In this story called “Jacob Listens to his Inner Wisdom,” Jacob not only manages to recall advice from a teacher, a friend, and his sisters, he tunes into his Inner Wisdom to select the response that will transform a LOSE-LOSE situation to a WIN-WIN.====================
Self-mentoring Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Jerry Checks His Facts
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for Self-Mentoring when you are a victim of false rumors and trying to get to the bottom of a he said – she said situation. Have you ever had one of those he said / she said situations where you are not sure who to believe? That’s what happened to Jerry. Julie walked up and said, “Jerry! I can’t believe you did that!” Jerry asked, “Did what?” Julie said, “What Kelly said you did.” When Jerry found out what Kelly said about him, he was furious. He imagined all kinds of scenarios where he would get his revenge with Kelly for starting such an embarrassing rumor about him until it occurred to him that it was perhaps Julie who was the trouble-maker instead of Kelly. He was determined to find out which girl was trying to make trouble for him. But how?====================
Self-mentoring Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Jesse needs to learn to set firm boundaries
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for Self-Mentoring when you are a victim of name-calling. The way you choose to respond can point to whether you are making a good character choice or bad. Listen to the character choices made by the three seventh-grade boys you will hear about in this next story called “Jesse Needs To Learn To Set Firm Boundaries.”====================
Self-mentoring Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Who Really Started the Rumor about Cindy?
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for Self-Mentoring when you are a victim of false rumors and trying to get to the bottom of a he said – she said situation. Have you ever had one of those he said / she said situations where you are not sure who to believe? That’s what happened to Cindy and Emily.Troublemaker Donny decided to make trouble for both Emily and Cindy. He would tell Emily that Cindy spread a rumor about her. He would tell Cindy that Emily was spreading a rumor about her. Emily’s inner wisdom alerted her that Donny was lying; therefore, she did not take the rumor seriously. Unfortunately, Cindy believed Donny was telling the truth. She was determined to get revenge on Emily for tainting her name. Would Cindy realize the truth before it was too late?
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Resources
- Multiple Bullying Prevention Articles Resources on Pinterest
- Multiple Anti-Bullying, Be Bully Free Videos on Pinterest
