IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

This is a fantastic program I welcome it

Parveen Rizvi

Pakistan

This is a very good idea & I think this will work.

chhayya

 This  can include varities of area and i think it is a brillant idea.

Thanks

Chhayya

Glad you like the idea.

This year, we shall be encouraging schools to engage in activities relating to the International Day of Peace on September 21st.

Ideas, suggestions and materials will be posted over the next few weeks.

Boyd Roberts

chhayya,

As soon as the international day of pease is celebrated ,please do send the suggestions  and feed back ,it will have an additional support to the user of this site.

Hello everyone,

We are making collaborative planning to celebrate and take action during the month of september in our school. It is very exciting .

I have one question, do we have to wait for the global sesssons and then implement them or we can  go ahead and plan our own lessons based on peace and conflict?

Janet

Hi Janet

You certainly don’t have to wait for IB to post materials here.

Do please make your own plans and do share them with others here too.

We hope marking the International Day of Peace on 21 September will strengthen the IB community, as we also share in the wider global community’s response to the clay.

It takes some time for us to get together our various materials and to prepare versions in all three IB working languages (English, French, Spanish). But we shall be posting soon!

Boyd RobertsFor the community theme team

Hi ,

I had wonderful experience with implementation of conflict resolution at school "I message method" is working wonders .  After I taught in few classes. Other teachers are coming surprised that this method is working and children themselves are solving their problems through communication. Note an examples with the follwing steps:

Another  exciting experience on “Conflict Resolution”:

In second B,  I  observed two children hitting each other .I enquired the reason and X was furious and crying since the other boy hit him with the cupboard door and the other boy said “ Nice happened, God punished you” So three of them came in front of the class. First the one who got hurt  and the offender were faced each other looking at each other's eyes with left hand on the shoulder, they explained to each other one by one the reason and realized that the intention was not to hurt but it was an accident. So they raised their right hand and shook each others hand and said sorry and accepted the apology. The other boy came in and stood in front of the boy who got hurt with hand on shoulder and explained the situation that he intentionally said something mean to his friend who was sad and hurt. He realized his mistake that he was mean to his friend and said sorry.  The apology was accepted by X and they are friendly now.

The Eye contact and affinity of hand on shoulder is very powerfull. 

 I could see the eyes welled with affection.

So we tried the Conflict resolution method of “I Message”

wish you peace

Janet

Hi  Jannelle,

we are peace friends. I have put up a report that tells about our activities . hope you too had a wonderful day

janet