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You are doing something against the classroom and school rules. The teacher asks you<br />

to stop. You don’t. When you do it again, the teacher gets very upset and immediately<br />

sends you to the <strong>of</strong>fice to talk the principal. What is the best way to react to this<br />

situation? What is the worst way to react to this situation?<br />

You are outside and two kids start throwing balls at you. What is the wrong way to<br />

react? Demonstrate it. What would be the best way to react to this situation?<br />

You are doing an assignment that is difficult for you, but you are trying your very best.<br />

Two kids keep teasing you and making fun <strong>of</strong> you and calling you names. You ask them<br />

to stop. They don’t. What is the most appropriate way to react to this situation? Tell<br />

me what you shouldn’t do.<br />

You are given a group assignment but someone in the group continues to mess up and<br />

then the whole group has to start over. What is the worst way to treat this person?<br />

Demonstrate it. What is the best way to react? Demonstrate this as well.<br />

You are lining up to go to lunch and two other students cut in front <strong>of</strong> you. The<br />

teacher does not notice. Tell me the wrong way to react to this situation? What is the<br />

best solution to this problem?<br />

Your teacher is giving directions for a new assignment. You do not understand what<br />

the teacher wants you to do? Tell me the best thing to do in this situation? What is<br />

the wrong way to react to this situation?<br />

Another student keeps trying to talk to you while you are working at your desk. It is<br />

distracting and making it difficult for you to finish your work. Tell me the worst way<br />

to react to this situation? What is the best solution to this problem?<br />

You see a group <strong>of</strong> kids at recess playing a game you like. You really want to join<br />

them. Demonstrate a good way to ask if you can play with them. What should you not<br />

do?


Your teacher has asked you to pair up with another student to complete an assignment.<br />

How do you ask someone to be your partner? Show me. What would not be a good<br />

thing to say.<br />

Your teacher has given you a timed test. You really have to use the bathroom. What<br />

should you do? What should you not do?<br />

Your best friend is gone today. You feel lonely at recess and want to play with<br />

another group <strong>of</strong> children but you are afraid to ask if you can join them? Demonstrate<br />

two possible ways you could approach them. Tell me two things you should not do in<br />

this situation.<br />

You are not invited to a birthday party that someone in your class is having and it<br />

makes you feel bad. What should you do? What should you not do?<br />

Another student accidentally bumps into you and makes you drop your pencil and it<br />

rolls away. You are upset. Describe a good way you could react to this situation.<br />

Describe a poor way to react to this.<br />

You slip on the ice or mud outside on the playground during recess. It hurts and you<br />

are muddy and start to cry. Other kids start laughing at you. Tell me one good way to<br />

react to this situation. Give me an example <strong>of</strong> something you shouldn’t do in this<br />

situation.<br />

You want to ask a new friend to come over and play at your house after school.<br />

Demonstrate how you would ask this friend to play. Demonstrate something you<br />

should not say.<br />

You ask a friend to play at your house and they tell you that they are not allowed to<br />

play at your house because their parent does not know your parent. It makes you feel<br />

sad. What are two things you could do or say? What are two things you should not<br />

say?<br />

By Amy Covington Werrett, Washington County School District, Feb. 2010

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