Bullied addresses a range of curriculum standards (McREL 4th edition) related to law, government, citizenship, diversity and conflict resolution. These include:
Behavioral Studies
Standard 4: Understands conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among individuals,
groups, and institutions
Civics
Standard 1: Understands ideas about civic life, politics, and
government
Standard 9: Understands the importance of Americans sharing and
supporting certain values, beliefs, and principles of American constitutional
democracy:
- Understands how certain values (e.g., individual rights, the
common good, self-government, justice, equality, diversity, openness and free
inquiry, truth, patriotism) are fundamental to American public life
Standard 11: Understands the role of diversity in American life
and the importance of shared values, political beliefs, and civic beliefs in an
increasingly diverse American society
Standard 14: Understands issues concerning the disparities between
ideals and reality in American political and social life
Standard 18: Understands the role and
importance of law in the American constitutional system and issues regarding
the judicial protection of individual rights
Language Arts
Standard 1: Writing: Uses the general skills and
strategies of the writing process
- Writes reflective
compositions (e.g., uses personal experience as a basis for reflection on
some aspect of life, draws abstract comparisons between specific incidents
and abstract concepts, maintains a balance between describing incidents
and relating them to more general abstract ideas that illustrate personal
beliefs, moves from specific examples to generalizations about life)
Standard 9: Viewing: Uses viewing skills and
strategies to understand and interpret visual media
- Uses a range of
strategies to interpret visual media (e.g., draws conclusions, makes
generalizations, synthesizes materials viewed, refers to images or
information in visual media to support point of view, deconstructs media
to determine the main idea)
Life Skills: Working With Others
Standard 1: Contributes to
the overall effort of a group:
- Demonstrates respect for others’ rights, feelings and points
of view in a group
- Identifies causes of conflict in
a group and works cooperatively with others to deal with conflict though
negotiation, compromise, and consensus
- Contributes to the development
of a supportive climate in groups
- Uses appropriate strategies when
making requests of other people
Standard 2: Uses conflict-resolution
techniques
- Determines the
seriousness of conflicts, and identifies explicit strategies to deal with
conflict depending on its nature and seriousness
Standard 3: Works
well with diverse individuals and in diverse situations:
- Works well with those of the
opposite gender, of differing abilities, and from different age groups
- Works well with those from
different ethnic groups, of different religious orientations, and of cultures
different from their own
Standard 4: Displays effective interpersonal communication skills:
- Demonstrates appropriate behaviors for relating well with
others (e.g., empathy, caring, respect, helping, friendliness, politeness)
- Exhibits positive character traits toward others, including
honesty, fairness, dependability, and integrity
- Demonstrates sensitivity to cultural diversity (e.g.,
personal space, use of eye contact, gestures, bias-free language)
United States History
Standard 31: Understands economic, social,
and cultural developments in the contemporary United States:
- Understands major
contemporary social issues and the groups involved (e.g., the current
debate over affirmative action and to what degree affirmative action
policies have reached their goals; the evolution of government support for
the rights of the disabled; the emergence of the Gay Liberation Movement and
civil rights of gay Americans; continuing debates over multiculturalism,
bilingual education, and group identity and rights vs. individual rights
and identity; successes and failures of the modern feminist movement)
