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........ "Using the Web" Activities     Part 10: Guidance and Counseling Using the Web: Create a Conflict Resolution Plan Overview Both counselors and teachers are often called upon to help students resolve conflicts and to manage a variety of crises. Use the featured Web links within this chapter to help you create a conflict resolution plan. The following questions and additional online resources provide a framework for developing your plan. Describe a conflict or crisis that your students may encounter. An example would be rival groups of students who frequently fight and disrupt school and classroom routines. What are some approaches you can use to openly identify the problem(s) and to engage students in positive discussions about the identified problem(s)? See Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools: An Action Guide--Conflict Resolution (http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/actguid/conflct.html) for successful conflict resolution approaches. What kind of activity will you conduct to help your students resolve the conflict? Access helpful activity ideas at Online Violence Prevention Lesson Plans and Curricula (http://mcet.edu/peace/together4.html). How will you actively involve your students in resolving the conflict? Visit the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance Web site (http://www.splcenter.org/teachingtolerance/tt-index.html) to find a wide range of classroom activities that foster respect and tolerance. How will you involve your students in preventing future conflicts? Visit the "Teacher's Lounge" link at Kids Peace Net (http://www.kidspeacenet.com/) to discover a variety of ways to involve students in conflict prevention.   Copyright © 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved.