Bullying is my greatest concern in schools today, it is one of the main causes why teens suffer from eating disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, and other illnesses. This is why I chose to focus on bullying for my social injustice. I wanted figure out how we can effectively decline the rates of bullying in schools, as I researched I found that peer mediation would be the best option to help this cause. I feel very accomplished and happy that I impacted my community for the better and I plan to keep persussing this path of teaching those who do not know what peer mediation is. What I could have done differently was not procrastinate on this project, maybe we could have presented to the two 5th grade classes instead of the one; other than
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From researching techniques to stop bullying, the most successful way I saw was peer mediation. Peer mediation is where students, with a conflict, meet in a safe place to work out the problems they have together with the help of a trained student mediator. In this meeting they confront the feelings they have towards each other and resolve the problem they shared. As a group we decided for our active component to be a presentation and teach the 5th graders at our campus about this technique, and hopefully diminish bullying in our school. We came up with this idea because we thought if we teached it at a young age, then maybe they would grow up knowing the process and able to resolve future problems in later years. We specifically chose 5th grade because we all agreed on that 5th grade is a time where bullying situations becomes more real and aggressive. What I contributed to this project was the research and created a timeline of the goals we wanted to complete. The biggest goal we wanted to fulfill was being able to present to the 5th graders and able to victoriously teach them how to peer mediate. We have a date scheduled in April to present and we're very excited to see the results and share our knowledge about this social
From researching techniques to stop bullying, the most successful way I saw was peer mediation. Peer mediation is where students, with a conflict, meet in a safe place to work out the problems they have together with the help of a trained student mediator. In this meeting they confront the feelings they have towards each other and resolve the problem they shared. As a group we decided for our active component to be a presentation and teach the 5th graders at our campus about this technique, and hopefully diminish bullying in our school. We came up with this idea because we thought if we teached it at a young age, then maybe they would grow up knowing the process and able to resolve future problems in later years. We specifically chose 5th grade because we all agreed on that 5th grade is a time where bullying situations becomes more real and aggressive. What I contributed to this project was the research and created a timeline of the goals we wanted to complete. The biggest goal we wanted to fulfill was being able to present to the 5th graders and able to victoriously teach them how to peer mediate. We have a date scheduled in April to present and we're very excited to see the results and share our knowledge about this social