In order to ensure that all students feel safe and ready to learn, we often need to address behaviours in our classrooms. Collaborative Problem Solving is an effective model that decreases conflict, enhances connection, improves communication, and cultivates empathy and conflict resolution skills. It encourages and cultivates approaching challenges as problems to be solved, situating students as collegial, proactive, resolution-focused members of a community. In the future, I would like to put Collaborative Problem Solving into practice in my classrooms, and establish a working group with other interested teachers to try, reflect on, and discuss collaborative problem solving in the classroom.
References
Greene, R. (2014). The explosive child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children. 5th edition. Harper Collins.
Lumanlan, J. (Host) & Greene, R. (Guest). Problem solving with Dr. Ross Greene. Your Parenting Mojo Podcast. Episode 126. https://yourparentingmojo.com/captivate-podcast/cps/