Peer Mediation and Team Building Exercises

Peer Mediation Team Building Activities

This book is a collection of activities I have found in the book How to Create Positive Relationships with Students by Michelle Karns. In picking these activities, I hope the students in the peer mediation program get to know one another better, and continue to grow as individuals. Play becomes an opportunity to open communication windows for children, and hopefully these activities will encourage the peer mediators to feel more like a unit.

I chose one lesson for each month and with each lesson, I also included encouragement notes that the peer mediators can copy, decorate and give to teachers and staff. Hopefully, these acts of kindness and encouragement will uplift everyone’s spirits and continue to make the school an enriching place to work as well as a nurturing place for students.

September: Find Me

October: Pretzels and Knots

November:How Many?

December:Building Blocks

January:Turning it Around

February:Crazy Eights

March:My Many Faces

April:Button Button

May:Thank You Notes

September

Since some of the kids may not know each other well, I thought “Find Me” would be a good group activity to break the ice, and to get to know each other better. Through this, the kids will learn cooperation and team development and hopefully make them feel like an important part of the group.

October

Many times, problems take teamwork to solve. Through the activity “Pretzels and Knots,” the kids will be able to put their problem solving abilities to work, while learning to value and trust others’ opinions and input.
November

“How many?” is an activity for the kids that encourages critical thinking, and positive social orientation. When the peer mediators engage in this activity, we hope that they will see how alike they are to other children, and be positive role models for the rest of the children at school.

December