Healthy conflict includes expressing needs, listening without defensiveness, accountability, and repair.
Classroom approach
Explore a fictional disagreement; practice expressing needs, listening, accountability, and repair.
Human Shaped Learning with Front Matter.docx · Ch. 14, actual manuscript pp. 106–112; Strategies for Supporting Healthy Conflict. Source-grounded paraphrase and instructional adaptation.
Reviewed JAG competency connections
- B10 — Use the telephone to arrange an interview
- F35 — Demonstrate ability to assume responsibility for actions and decisions
- G50 — Negotiate solutions to conflict
- H69 — Accept responsibility for one’s own actions
- K109 — Express needs and wants
- N118 — Explain the importance of taking responsibility for actions and behaviors
- N120 — Demonstrate appropriate conflict resolution techniques
- S135 — Define “negotiation” and give examples of everyday negotiations
- S136 — Explain the reasons for and benefits of negotiation
- S137 — Describe the process of negotiation
The guided workspace explains its recommendations and lets educators select a different chapter or combine approaches. Optional facilitation choices do not create additional official alignments.