Printer-friendly versionBullied 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)
