Blog # 8
pages 266-317
Vocabulary/Concept Vitalizer
Conflict Resolution: is a range of methods of eliminating sources of conflict. The term "conflict resolution" is sometimes used interchangeably with the term dispute resolution or alternative dispute resolution. Processes of conflict resolution generally include negotiation, mediation, and diplomacy.
Mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person. Some professions have "mentoring programs" in which newcomers are paired with more experienced people, who advise them and serve as examples as they advance. Schools sometimes offer mentoring programs to new students, or students having difficulties.
Peer Support: occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. It commonly refers to an initiative consisting of trained supporters, and can take a number of forms such as peer mentoring, listening, or counseling. Peer support is also used to refer to initiatives where colleagues, members of self help organizations and others meet as equals to give each other support on a reciprocal basis. Peer in this case is taken to imply that each person has no more expertise as a supporter than the other and the relationship is one of equality.
Peer Leadership Program: is an organization, most often run in public high schools and four-year Universities, that looks upon upperclassmen to help ease the transition to the underclassman's respective freshmen year. The Peer Program is considered to stress communal interaction and social insight. Before meeting with smaller groups of newcomers the larger Peer Organization is trained to deal with the psychological and emotional needs the newcomers may express.
Grade Inflation: is the tendency of academic grades for work of comparable quality to increase over time. It is said to occur when higher grades are assigned for work that would have received lower grades in the past. Whether rising grades are a result of grade inflation or higher achievement can be difficult to discern and often can be determined only with systematic research.
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Shannon O.:
ReplyDeleteAli, I like the "You Talk, You Listen, Things Change" image. It makes me think of having a conflict with somebody else and sitting down with a mediator to work things out. The tagline has be imagining students talking over their feelings and listening to each other in order to change their situation.
Ali,
ReplyDeleteI like the picture of the two people climbing up the mountain. It really shows the mentor-mentee relationship. The mentor is helping the mentee, but they are both doing the same task and really working together to achieve a common goal.
Kristina