As a high school teacher I have to do similar education with the students at the beginning of the school year. Ours is based on our Code of Conduct. What I do is write out several scenarios dealing with a topic (backtalk, cheating, passing notes, dress code, etc..). No one scenario is more than one paragraph long. I then put them on an overhead transparency. I will then let the students read the scenarios for that day's topic: Example, they will read all five cheating scenarios. They then have to decide which scenario shows the student following the proper behavior, and have to discuss what in the the other scenarios is improper. In the cheating scenarios, they have to discuss the difference between asking someone for help on question #5, and asking someone for their paper in order to copy the answers. (I know that to us the answer is obvious, but to high school freshmen, the difference isn't as obvious). In the peer mediation course we used similar techniques for getting the student thinking about the proper way to handle conflict.
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