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No More Us and Them
Classroom Lessons and Activities to Promote Peer Respect
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2012
Summary
It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and supportive place for adolescents. Teachers must help their students acknowledge that they belong to a group together, that they are part of a “we” or “us,” and that any differences—divergent talents, backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and skills—only make “us” stronger and better.
No More “Us” and “Them” delineates what steps educators can take to create an atmosphere where adolescent students feel accepted, included, and valuable to themselves and to their peers. The goal of this book is to change adolescent attitudes to lead to not just acceptance and tolerance, but toward an expansion of “us” and respect for their classmates that will serve to spread an even wider net of respect.
This book provides ideas for lessons and activities that can be integrated into existing curricula and that meet a variety of content area standards in language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, foreign languages, physical education, art, and music, while also proposing ideas for advisory or homeroom periods and class, team, and grade gatherings to build respect in our classrooms, our schools, and our communities.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61048-812-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-61048-814-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
136
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CONTENTS No access
LIST OF ACTIVITIES AND LESSONS BY CHAPTER No access
FOREWORD No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access
CHAPTER 1. GETTING TO KNOW YOU No access Pages 1 - 12
CHAPTER 2. STARTING WITH SIMILARITIES No access Pages 13 - 34
CHAPTER 3. BECOMING PART OF THE PUZZLE No access Pages 35 - 48
CHAPTER 4. SMALL-GROUP COLLABORATION No access Pages 49 - 58
CHAPTER 5. EVERYONE IS AN EXPERT: VALUING DIVERSITY AND CELEBRATING INDIVIDUALITY No access Pages 59 - 66
CHAPTER 6. MAKING EVERY DAY MULTICULTURAL DAY: STUDYING AND VALUING ALL CULTURES No access Pages 67 - 86
CHAPTER 7. HOLIDAYS IN THE CURRICULUM No access Pages 87 - 94
CHAPTER 8. READING FOR RESPECT No access Pages 95 - 114
CHAPTER 9. ENDING THE YEAR WITH A FOCUS ON RESPECT No access Pages 115 - 126
APPENDIX: LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES BY CONTENT AREAS No access Pages 127 - 130
