No More "Us" and "Them": Classroom Lessons and Activities to Promote Peer Respect - Softcover

Roessing, Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161048813X ISBN 13: 9781610488136

Publisher: R&L Education, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Lesley Roessing, was a middle and high school teacher for over twenty years and Sr Lecturer, College of Education, Armstrong State University for nine years, working with K-12 teachers as Founding Director of the Coastal Savannah Writing Project. She now serves as Literacy Consultant at a K-8 school. This is her fifth book on literacy for teachers.

Edition details

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161048813X
• ISBN 13: 9781610488136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162