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Why is it important for us as educators to pay special attention to the modern management of conflict and aggression?

Conflict is a natural part of human relations. If handled in the right way, they can be an opportunity for learning and development for all involved. Difficult social situations, successfully resolved through joint effort, can strengthen our relationships. However, without the right tools, tension can build and helplessness can turn into aggression. Aggression in the school environment makes the daily lives of teachers, students and their parents more difficult. And the anger and shame associated with tense situations can make learning and teaching impossible.

 

How does our lesson plan series help?

At Partners Hungary Foundation, together with our international partners, we have developed a comprehensive programme for combating aggression and bullying in preschools and schools, which provides up-to-date methodological responses to the difficult social situations of school actors.

This series of lesson plans for classroom teachers is part of our secondary school programme and is primarily aimed at 9th graders and their classroom teachers, but also works well for grades 7-8 in primary school and grades 10-11-12 in secondary school. Experience has shown that the most effective way of dealing with aggression and bullying in schools is prevention, which is a longer process. It is a process of mutually supportive methods, one element of which is this series of lessons for class teachers, which sensitise students through experiential exercises to become active agents in conflict and bullying situations, to dare to take responsibility and to ask for help. The lessons build on each other, providing participants with an ever deepening knowledge, self-awareness and community experience. The sessions should be held on a weekly or fortnightly basis. The result of the series of lessons is a set of agreed community norms that regulate relationships within the classroom, preventing conflicts from escalating. The agreed rules are more likely to be respected by the participants and help each other to enforce what has been agreed.

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