Student On-Line Program
(One Day Add On Course To Peer Mediation)The Student On-Line program is a course designed for students who have completed the peer mediation training. This full one day course prepares existing mediation students to take on a significant leadership role within the school community by "listening" and "encouraging" other students to problem solve.
Extra skills taught to students trained in the student on-line program include:
- Creating a comfort zone for students to open up and talk about their
concerns.
- Timing an entrance into listening and discussion around the concerns
raised.
- Encouragement for the creation of developing different options and
brainstorming solutions (without giving advice or suggestions).
- Encouragement of students to seek out appropriate resources and/or
other services.
- Feel lonely and/or isolated within the school and want to talk
- May feel put-down by other students and do not want to be seen as
telling.
- May have some health concerns and feel embarrassed to talk to an
adult.
- Students who have been singled out by other students and/or teachers.
- Students who feel pressured due to school, home or family issues.
Once trained the student on-line is allocated an office space during lunchtimes and has an open door policy to see students. Students are rostered on one day a week by the coordinator (often the Student Welfare Co-ordinator).
When rostering students on, the co-ordinator should provide a list of names posted in a position where the general student population will be able to observe this list i.e. allows male students to perhaps wait until a male student is on-line before going to see them).
This program will also allow resources to be located on the student on-lines desk that visiting students can take away. For example, a simple pamphlet on bullying or a pamphlet on making friends etc.
To get the program started, the Student welfare Coordinator will often already have an established group of students that may congregate around their office during lunchtimes for various reasons. They may like to invite students to chat to the student on-line whilst they deal with more pressing issues.
To ensure that this program is accountable to the school community, the student on-line is required to take some brief statistics on students seen during their session (if the student refuses to have a sheet filled out, then the student online can not proceed). This sheet is handed back to the co-ordinator at the conclusion of the break and provides an opportunity for a de-brief for the student.
It is also suggested that in terms of confidentiality that a large laminated poster is made up so the student on line can hang it up behind them on the wall The poster might be headed "Issues the Student on-line cannot keep within this room and will include such items as pregnancy, assaults, vandalism, graffiti etc.
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