Cooperative Games
Caring Classrooms and Peaceful Playgrounds
- Peace Games is a curriculum that incorporates meaningful games as a vehicle to teach children how to deal with conflict and value the diversity of their unique communities. Read about this program at http://peacecenter.berkeley.edu/Fall04_PeaceGames.pdf.
- You can learn more about Peace Games by visiting their web site at www.peacegames.org.
- Read about how one teacher transformed her classroom, her students, and herself by attending to social and emotional factors in the article “A Curriculum of Care.” The article highlights the Child Development Project, PATHS, and the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (all of which are “select” programs in CASEL’s Safe and Sound program review) as approaches that get high marks for affecting the school community and enhancing learning. See http://peacecenter.berkeley.edu/watson_spring04.pdf.
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- Get in the Game - This presentation explores the role school leaders assume in promoting play within learning environments. Play is intimately linked to creativity, the development of cognitive flexibility and a sense of belonging — all things critical for responsive and engaging places of learning. Through modelling a playful approach, school leaders create the conditions under which creativity, innovation, risk-taking and flexible thinking flourish.
Game Stimulating Productive Dialogue About Race and Ethnicity
Developed by a cultural anthropologist, the two-player Who Am I? Race Awareness Game is designed to stimulate a productive dialogue between adults/educators and children regarding the complex and sensitive issues of race and ethnicity in a multicultural world. In the game, one player selects a target picture of a real person; the other player then asks “yes or no” questions to figure out who was picked.
- Do2Learn helps teachers find a way to improve the academic achievement as well as the behavior and social skills
of students with special needs. The website features games, songs,
craft projects, seasonal arts and much more. Educators can access literacy tools, behavior management plans, a teacher toolbox
and other materials created by experts in the area of special
education. The resources have been developed specifically for students
with Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder and other disabilities that inhibit their skills of self-regulation, communication, socialization and learning.
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