One Minute Playground Tip-Solving Problems
This One-Minute Playground Tip is about Solving Problems on
the playground.
We recommend 3 solutions and teach students they have three
options when a conflict occurs.
- Walk
away from the problem
- Talk
through the problem
- Us.
Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Walk away means to walk away from the game they are playing
and go to a new game on another marking.
Kids have lots of choices on a Peaceful Playground as we recommend schoolspaint multiple game courts of the same marking. For example, we suggest you paint 3 hopscotch courts and
three target markings etc. Our playground and recess stencils make painting a breeze.
By the way, we learned that the more game choices kids have,
the fewer problems administrators have.
The second problem solving method is to talk over the problem
or conflict. We believe that children
can handle most problems. We learned
that most arguments are over game rules so we offer Activity Guides which you
can think of as Rule Books to help eliminate this problem.
The third solution is Rock, Paper, Scissors. This is the most popular option and our
research shows it is used about 56% of the time. If you don’t know how to play rock paper
scissors you can view our video on You Tube on the Peaceful Playgrounds
Channel.
Thank you for attending this one-minute playground tip
session. We hope you join us again and
check out our You Tube Channel for other playground tips.