One world : teaching tolerance and participation / Serghei I. Cartasev.

Tolerance. Getting started. Getting acquainted ; Setting priorities for working ; Tolerance and diversity. What is tolerance? ; What is intolerance? ; Measuring tolerance ; Tolerance and individual rights ; Creating a climate of tolerance ; Self-understanding ; Ourselves and others ; Pyramid of values ; The value of diversity ; Stereotypes ; Communicating in a diverse world ; Cultural communications -- Life skills. Interests, skills, and goals. Life skills ; Our interests ; Steps to understanding ; Life's river ; Challenges ; Creating the future ; Focusing on the goal ; Aiming for the goal ; Trajectory of success ; Possibilities and challenges. Beginning from a blank sheet ; Our possibilities ; Answers ; Resources around us ; Hidden resources ; The road to a goal ; What hampers achievement? ; The value of obstacles ; Two models ; Start with yourself ; Visualizing success ; Communication. Listening ; Tell me clearly-- ; How do people perceive us? ; How do we perceive others? ; Communicate! ; Get in contact! ; Negotiating ; Creative thinking and decision making. Brainstorming ; Free association ; Sleep on it! ; Tree diagrams ; Steps in decision making ; Types of decision making -- Contribution. Participation and collaboration. Participating ; Rights and responsibilities ; Individual and society ; Teams ; Leadership qualities ; Leadership styles -- The leader and the team ; Getting involved. Articulating a problem ; Planning ; Determining our resources ; The proposal ; Presenting the project ; Establishing contacts ; Communicating with the press ; Interviews.

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Annotation One World offers educators a practical curriculum for teaching tolerance and conflict resolution. Fifty hands on activities help students understand how personal values are formed; how misperceptions affect relationships; and how they can communicate effectively. Lessons on decision-making, creative thinking, and conflict management give them the practical skills that foster tolerance. Each lesson plan contains learning objectives, background information, materials needed, activities, activity or resource sheets, discussion questions, and teacher tips.

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