LS3 - G4 - PSW - Lesson - 8-9

Job bag: LS3_G4_PSW_Lesson_ 8-9 Week 8-9 of 10
Subject: Life Skills Grade: 4 Term: 1

Study area: Personal and Social Wellbeing Duration: 3 hours Date:
Topic: Development of the self

Sub-topic: Dealing with conflict: examples Content: - Strategies to avoid conflict
of conflict situations at home - Useful responses to conflict
and at school. situations
Strategies to avoid conflict. - Reading about safe
Useful responses to conflict environments and how to
situations avoid conflict situations
Weekly reading by learners:
reading for enjoyment
Link with prior Respect for our own bodies: Concepts: Conflict, strategies, environment,
knowledge: privacy bodily integrity, and not responses, conflict situations
subjecting one’s body to
substance abuse
Link with Emotions and understanding a Skills: To develop skills such as self-
future range of emotions. awareness, problem-solving,
knowledge interpersonal relations, leadership,
decision-making, and effective
communication
Specific Aims To guide learners to achieve their full intellectual, personal, emotional and social
potential.
Teach learners to exercise their constitutional rights and responsibilities and to respect
the rights of others
To develop creative, expressive and innovative individuals
Enrichment: Learners who complete their Inclusivity: ?
activity can set a little test on
conflict and get their peers to
mark.
Teaching Steps: Learning Steps:
Lesson 1 1 hr
What is a conflict? Learners will listen attentively, participate
The teacher will discuss the following in the discussion and write the concepts in
concept with learners: their books.
A conflict is a disagreement or even a
fight between people.
It also means having different opinions.
Conflict is an inevitable part of life.
Different types of conflict
Interpersonal conflict
Refers to a conflict between two Learners will be asked to work in pairs and
individuals. This occurs typically due to describe two conflict situations: one at home
how people are different from one and one at school.
another
Intrapersonal conflict
Occurs within an individual. The
experience takes place in the person’s
mind. Hence, it is a type of conflict that is
psychological.
Intragroup conflict
Is a type of conflict that happens among
individuals within a team. The
incompatibilities and misunderstandings
among these individuals lead to an
intragroup conflict.
Intergroup conflict
Takes place when a misunderstanding
arises among different teams within a
classroom.
Ask learners to role play the following Learners will role play the scenarios so that
scenarios. Assign the roles carefully and they can have a better understanding of the
instruct them what to say during role play concept of conflict.
Scenario 1
One of your classmates is always disruptive
during lessons, interrupting the teacher for
no reason, and this upsets most learners in
class.
Scenario 2
There are two groups of learners who
spend time together during lunch, the only
problem is that both groups think they are
better than the other.
Lesson 2 1hr
Strategies to respond to conflict Learners will look up the concept strategy in
Ask learners to look up the word strategy their dictionaries and write it down in their
in their dictionaries books
What is a strategy?
A method or plan chosen to bring about a
desired future, such as a solution to
a problem.
Explain the following strategies to
learners to enable them to apply them in
the next activity
Strategies to deal with conflict
Avoiding – This can be effective when the
issue is relatively unimportant and the
risks of surfacing it outweigh the benefits
of resolving it.
Accommodating – Useful when the issue
is far more important to others than to
you. However it isn’t appropriate when
your input and / or commitment is
required and you can’t give it.
Forcing – Good for when quick, decisive,
action is called for or you need to
implement an unpopular decision – but
only if commitment isn’t needed.
Compromising – Although giving
everyone some of what they want isn’t
likely to lead to a satisfactory outcome,
compromising can work when the goals
are mutually exclusive.
Collaborating – When time isn’t an issue,
working through difficult feelings and
different perspectives can lead to a much
better solution and stronger commitment
to that solution.
Learners will explain in writing how they will
deal with each conflicting situations below.
(written activity)
• Your older sister tore the picture

you drew for your mom for
Mothers’ Day
• Your father won’t allow you to go to
a party of your friend
• Your classmate grabbed your pen
while you were writing
• Your friend broke your pencil
crayons and told you that you are
stupid
• Your hungry classmate stole your
lunch box and ate it without asking
you
Strategies to manage conflict in the

classroom
• Start and end on time
• Turn off or silence cell phones
• Save texting for breaks
• Respect the contributions of others
• Be open to new ideas
• Resolve differences calmly
• Stay on topic
Lesson 3 1 hr
Useful responses to conflict situations
The teacher can use a case study in the Learners will answer questions based on the
textbook about any conflict situation, but case study and write them in their books.
the situation should be age and grade
appropriate. Use any case study that is
contextual and learners can understand.
Allow learners to read the case study to
improve their reading skills.
Written activity Written activity

Discuss the useful responses to conflict Learners will have to come up with useful
situations with learners e.g: responses to solve the conflict. when is it
• Avoid appropriate to:
• Talk about it / confront • Avoid
• Negotiate • Talk about it/confront
• Negotiate
. Create your own responses
Assessment Informal Form of Role play, Assessment Memo, checklist

strategy: assessment:
written activity, tool:
case study
Recommended CAPS, NPPPPR, NPA, Textbook, pictures from magazines, books, posters, pamphlets,
resources: newspaper articles
http://www.directionservice.org/cadre/section2.cfm
http://www.kenblanchard.com/img/pub/Blanchard-Challenging-Conversations.pdf
Reflection:
HOD input:
Teacher HOD signature:
signature:
Theory:
The three most common responses to ‘conflict’ are:
Fight is to take sides and become emotional. The one-sidedness of their emotional involvement
means that the fighter's ability to clearly see the perspective of the other side is limited, since they
are convinced that their side is right. They see that there is a right side and a wrong side, and
they, of course, are on the right side.
Flight engages in an avoiding strategy to protect from ‘conflict’ by putting up a mental wall. Even
though they want to win, they are reluctant to jump into ‘conflict’ the way someone with a fighting
response would. Avoiding means dealing with the ‘conflict’ from a safe emotional distance.
Acquiesce is a response style where one lets the other party have what they want. A person who
finds fighting morally wrong may adopt an acquiescing strategy to avoid ‘conflict’. More
commonly, however, people simply say "it's just not worth the fight".
Conflict or ‘less successful experiences’ happen when one party decides that the way things are
is not okay and seeks change, but that change is not agreed to by the other party; sometimes it
only takes one party to declare a ‘conflict’.
Conflict can be defined as:
To fight
To be antagonistic
Sharp disagreement
Instead of dealing with the ‘less successful experiences’ people use superficial gestures, social
masking, blame others, talking or complaining about the situation with friends or third parties
(while failing to talk directly to the other party we are in disagreement with).
The main types of ‘conflict’ are:
Data ‘conflicts’ happen mainly over data or facts. People react to a situation without taking into
account all the information or data.
Relationship ‘conflicts’ happen through miscommunication and not getting to know people
properly before judging them. Many times people are unaware of how they come across to
others.
Value ‘conflicts’ happen when the parties have perceived inconsistencies in their belief systems.
Our values help us define what is right or wrong in any situation, and provide a moral compass
for our lives. Different values do not need to cause ‘conflict’; people can live together in harmony
with different value systems. The keys to successful resolution tolerance, understanding, and
acceptance of others points of view.

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Job bag: LS3_G4_PSW_Lesson_ 8-9 Week 8-9 of 10

Subject: Life Skills Grade: 4 Term: 1

Topic: Development of the self

• Your older sister tore the picture

Strategies to manage conflict in the

Written activity Written activity

Assessment Informal Form of Role play, Assessment Memo, checklist

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