Additional Teacher Resources

Videos

  • School Colours: Depicts a Canadian school with 57 different cultures. Students describe pressures which heighten the sense of tension in the community; all young people must contend with complex economic, technological, social and moral change; school administrators are teaching non-confrontational methods of dealing with cultural clash. Available through CBE video loan pool.
  • Conflict resolution Skills: A Winning Approach. Outlines steps to take to communicate more effectively so that a resolution can take place in a conflict situation. Guide included. Available from the CBE Video Loan Pool.
  • Getting Better at Getting Along. Uses dramatic situations with which children can identify to teach techniques for conflict resolution. Shows students that, when they communicate more effectively, they improve their ability to solve problems, are able to take greater responsibility for themselves, and become better at getting along, both in and out of school. Available from the CBE Video Loan Pool
  • E Marlow Bryne and the Scrode: A Tale about Diversity. An animated story in rhyming couplets that teaches the beauty of difference and cultural diversity. A young man meets a creature called a "scrode" that is intent on making all things - and all people - the same. When things appear most bleak, other creatures called "edorks" change them back. Available from the CBE Video Loan Pool
  • Ryan's Well: Demonstrates the difference one determined individual can make, as Ryan, a seven year old Canadian boy shows. Ryan is shown as he raises funds to enable Watercan to drill and implement a water well at a school in Uganda. Ryan gets to visit the school and see the fruits of his labor, clean water for the students and community. Emphasizes the benefits of cooperation between countries to address social and economic needs. Available through CBE Video Loan Pool
  • Neighbourhoods: Second Edition. Shows how neighborhoods are an important part of a community. Explains that large cities are made up of many kinds of neighbourhoods, that communities consist of people living and working together, that everyone lives in a community, and that there are different types of communities. Available through CBE Video Loan Pool.
  • Understanding and Supporting Immigrant Youth: A series of on-line instructional videos about immigrant teens and their struggles to fit in.
  • Together We Learn (503847)
    A teacher resource video on group work in a class setting
  • Teaching: Searching As A Process (511775)
    (***Available through CBE Video Loan Pool)
  • Enhancing Self Esteem: Discusses sources of self-esteem, negative self-talk, self-criticism, being "picked on", having a dream and a purpose in life, and encouraging oneself and others. Michael Pritchard, teen counsellor and comedian, leads the discussion; teenagers reach their own conclusions and make the statements. Series: "Big Changes, Big Choices". Available through CBE Video Loan Pool
  • Who Are You: Explains that, if children do not feel good about themselves, they may be more likely to succumb to peer pressure to smoke, take drugs, or commit crimes. Children talk about things that they do well, and suggest what they can do to enhance their self-concept. Series: "Just for Me". Available through CBE Video Loan Pool
  • Second step : a violence prevention curriculum, middle school/junior high [kit]  Author  Beland, Kathy.  An excellent violence prevention kit including a video and lesson strategies
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Books

  • The Courage to change: a teen survival guide / by the Leave Out ViolencE teens ; compiled by Brenda Zosky Proulx. A good book for junior high students. Probably too difficult for elementary students.
  • Face to face: communication and conflict resolution in the schools; Philip S. Morse, Allen E. Ivey. Available at CBE Professional Learning Centre
  • Everything you need to know about conflict resolution; Amy Nathan. Available through CBE Libraries
  • Teaching for a tolerant world, grades K-6 : essays and resources; Judith P. Robertson, editor, and the Committee on Teaching about Genocide and Intolerance of the National Council of Teachers of English. Available through CBE Professional Learning Centre
  • Respecting cultural differences; Susan Watson. Available through CBE Libraries
  • Rumblefish
    (***Available through CBE library and the Calgary Public Library)
  • Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Spirit of Courage, Caring and Community; Jack Canfield... [et al.]. According to authors Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Arline McGraw Oberst, John T. Boal and Tom and Laura Lagana, over 200 million people around the world offer their time to volunteering. Dozens of them tell their stories in Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Spirit of Courage, Caring and Community. Norma Reedy tells of the Big Brother volunteer who befriended her son, who had been recently diagnosed with leukemia, while Rotary International volunteer Carolyn E. Jones explains how she raised money for cancer patients in Russia. Most entries end with information on how readers can become involved in the volunteering organization described.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Available through CBE Libraries.
  • The Power of Positive Talk; Bolch, Douglas: Adults who work with children can recognize children who have a negative self-concept or world view and help them by teaching them positive self-talk. In four parts, this book helps define the power of the spoken word, teaches the use of positive talk for self-esteem and well being, positive talk for different developmental stages and positive talk for children with special needs such as an abused child or an at-risk child. The chapters are short, well written and provide plenty of scenarios for practicing positive self-talk and exercises to help children accept themselves. It is a positive experience just reading this book. Available through CBE Libraries
  • When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence
  • No Body's Perfect: Stories by Teens About Body Image, Self-Acceptance, and the Search for Identity
  • Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos: a practical guide to filming, and editing documentaries of real events. Available through Calgary Public Library
  • The Bully Free Clasroom: over 100 tips and strategies for teachers K-8/ Allan L. Beane. Available Through CBE libraries.
  • Second step : a violence prevention curriculum, middle school/junior high [kit]  Author  Beland, Kathy.  An excellent violence prevention kit including a video and lesson strategies
  • Don’t Laugh at Me  by Steve Seskin Available through CBE and CPL
  • The bully, the bullied and the bystander : from pre-school to high school : how parents and teachers can help break the cycle of violence; Barbara Coloroso
  • Building moral intelligence : the seven essential virtues that teach kids to do the right thing  by Michelle Borba
  • The Heart of the Matter – Alberta Education – citizenship and character Education

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