Interventional Strategies

 Intervention Strategies

Characteristics of intervention strategies:

·      Focused on win-win solution

·      Puts students in position of self responsibility

·      Gives students a sense of control over the situation

·      Causes students to work together instead of against each other

·      Strategy is rehearsed and expected when conflict arises

·      Encourages calm, respectful, positive conversation

·      Comes to a solution agreed upon by both parties

·      Creates a plan for avoiding future conflict

 

This worksheet is an effective intervention strategy because it possesses all of the characteristics listed above. It is a rehearsed routine that students expect to have to sit down with when a conflict arises, it forces students to be responsible and accountable, it gives them a sense of control, and it requires that students sit down together and work together to find a win-win solution to their conflict and make a plan to avoid future conflict. And this worksheet is also great because the process can be mediated by the teacher or entrusted to the students to work out on their own while the rest of the class continues with instruction.

This intervention strategy would work well as a poster put up in the classroom that acts as the conflict resolution process for all classroom conflicts. What’s great about this is that it really gives students a sense of control to know that there is a set of steps that they can follow to solve the problem.  It’s also good because it is focused on finding a win-win solution, making a plan for the future, and using calm and respectful language, which are important characteristics in every intervention strategy.

This worksheet is not so much it’s own full intervention strategy as it is a supplemental material for conflict resolution. Having this up in the classroom as a poster and talking about it at length with students will encourage them to use calm, respectful, and positive language while working on resolving their conflicts. Giving them this structure for their conversation will also add to the sense of control that they have while working through the whole situation.