NCJ Number
179180
Date Published
1999
Length
45 pages
Annotation
This is the handbook for young adult volunteers who conduct the Peace Games Program, which involves a collaborative learning process for building peacemaking skills for students, teachers, and families involved in Massachusetts classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.
Abstract
The heart of Peace Games in an in-school peace and justice curriculum that students receive every week. The curriculum is delivered during the school day as an integrated part of the school's curriculum. Year by year, students progress through Peace Games as they would through a math or science curriculum. The curriculum is reinforced through after-school services, professional development and support for teachers, and a comprehensive set of resources for families that integrates lessons into the home. Peace Games is currently beginning the first year of 3-year partnerships with the following school communities in Massachusetts: Mattahunt Elementary (Mattapan), the Fletcher School (Cambridge), Mission Grammar School (Roxbury), and Blessed Sacrament (Jamaica Plain). This handbook first presents the conceptual model for the program, followed by information for program volunteers regarding whom to contact under various program-related circumstances. Other information encompasses the 1999-2000 program calendar; directions to the various participating schools; a volunteer job description; a volunteer agreement; a time sheet; volunteer policies and responsibilities; the curriculum framework; and guidelines for working with teachers, working in a teaching team, working with students, classroom management, and teaching techniques. A 21-item resource list, a list of community resources, and frequently asked questions