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PEER MEDIATION

PEER MEDIATION. Janine Edge. ELEMENTS OF A PEER MEDIATION SCHEME. Educating whole class/school on principles of conflict resolution Soft skills training Selection of mediators The mediation process Monitoring and record keeping NB Training can take from 6 hours to 5 days. SOFT SKILLS.

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PEER MEDIATION

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  1. PEER MEDIATION Janine Edge

  2. ELEMENTS OF A PEER MEDIATION SCHEME • Educating whole class/school on principles of conflict resolution • Soft skills training • Selection of mediators • The mediation process • Monitoring and record keeping NB Training can take from 6 hours to 5 days

  3. SOFT SKILLS • Exploring feelings • Active listening • Communication skills • Recognising responses to conflict • Questioning

  4. ISSUES SUITABLE FOR PEER MEDIATION • Friendship breakdown/exclusion • Arguments over games/school work • Alleged theft or borrowing of property • Bullying and texting • Corridor scuffles • Dinner queue conflicts • Name calling • Rumour spreading

  5. WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACH • Securing support from governors, local authority, teachers, parents (conflict audit) • Teacher preparation and training • Changing the school ethos from hierarchical and punitive to co-operative problem solving • Promoting peer mediation to pupils • Integrating conflict resolution into curriculum

  6. BENEFITS OF PEER MEDIATION SCHEMES • Positive change in school culture • Reduction of bullying and conflict • Increased self-esteem of pupils • Improved academic achievement • Less exclusions and increased attendance • Teachers have more time to teach

  7. WHAT IS DIFFERENT FOR LEGAL MEDIATORS? • Currency is feelings not money • No separate rooms for parties • No challenging by the mediator of the parties • Coaching by mediator of parties to express feelings and needs

  8. WHAT CAN LEGAL MEDIATORS ADD? • Experience from the legal/business world • An outsiders freshness • Relieve burden from teachers • Training delivered pro bono? • Increase number of schools with peer mediation

  9. HAZARDS FOR LEGAL MEDIATORS • Insufficient teaching experience (especially soft skills) • Resentment from teachers • Insufficient time for ‘whole-school’ or follow-up • Keeping discipline

  10. HOW MAY LEGAL MEDIATORS AND LAW FIRMS BENEFIT? • Raise awareness of legal profession • Learn more soft mediation skills • Personal satisfaction in a new context • Increased contact with local community • Give rise to mediation work in the education field • Assist the legal profession in taking it’s own mediation medicine?

  11. MODIFICATIONS FOR LEGAL MEDIATORS? • Training of one year only • Use simple legal role plays • Role play competitions, using scenarios • Advanced skills training • Augmenting peer mediation schemes NB SCRAM initiative of Western Australian Dispute Resolution Associationwww.scram.business.ecu.edu.au

  12. PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR LAWWORKS • Provides training for trainers, or more? • Which schools (private and/or state)? • Do schools pay anything and to whom? • Any new mediation work resulting? • Liability/insurance

  13. RESOURCES • Special thanks to the Peace Foundation in New Zealand www.peace.net.nz (click on ‘Cool Schools’) • Organisations teaching peer mediation in the UK: www.transformingconflict.org www.leaplinx.com www.crispuk.org • For peer mediators: www.peerlink.org.uk • Guidelines and reports: Best practice guidelines www.peermediationnetwork.org.uk NSPCC Report on Peer Mediation in the UK (2004) http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/publications/Downloads/peermediationintheUK_wdf48055.pdf

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