This document outlines the PEACE curriculum for teaching social-emotional skills from K-12. The curriculum focuses on parent empowerment, empathy training, anger management, character education, and essential social skills. The empathy training component uses the HEARS acronym to teach students how to assess and respond to others' feelings appropriately. Lessons use tools like emotion flashcards, stories, and role plays. The curriculum aims to help students understand and manage their own emotions, develop empathy, and resolve conflicts peacefully.

1. Teaching
Social Skills
as curriculum
Bridget Bengtson, Lindsey Letcher, Kim Oertwich

2. 1. Teaching Empathy
2. Anger Management
3. Staying Out of Fights

3. Teaching Empathy K-12
PEACE CURRICULUM
is a validated strategy currently in use that involves the
following curriculum materials and applications focus:
•P Parent Empowerment
•E Empathy Training
•A Anger Management
•C Character Education
•E Essential Social Skills
Empathy training focus:
•H Hold the correct posture
•E Eye Contact
•A Asses the person’s feeling correctly
•R Respond appropriately with your face
•S Say the person’s feelings in your own words

4. H.E.A.R.S. Acronym
PEACE Curriculum
Practices using the
HEARS acronym in
daily lessons

5. PEACE Curriculum : Empathy Training
K -- 12
Lesson Map
Parent Essential
Empowerment Social Skills
Empathy Training
Anger Management Character Education
Relationships Lesson Topic Task Related Strategies
1.KWL as a group discussion written on the board
Personal success Career related success
Building relationships Problem Solving Results Identify Emotions 2.Internet game / story as a group identify emotions
3.Small groups for flashcards and worksheets on emotions
Frustrated Joyful
Use emotion Anger Identify emotions in Fear/Anxiety Create a self
flashcards monitor/awareness
Sadness
ourselves and others
Happiness tool ask parents to Action
participate
Assessment
Read/watch a
story as a group
and discuss our
own/characters
Context
emotion
Self Test Questions Tasks
1.What emotions do you most like / dislike? 1.Use LINCS vocab flash cards to learn vocabulary in small groups.
2.Why does talking matter? 2.Use website/read a book s a group and as independent practice to identify
3.What can we assume about how another person feels? perspectives and emotions.
4.What does frustration feel like at first? 3.Use discussion of characters’ emotions in a large group to identify different
5.Why is self control important? perspectives in each situation.
6.How can you identify what someone else is feeling? 4.Use emotions flashcards in a small group setting or practice an interactive game
on the computer identifying emotions.
5.Use the worksheet to identify a goal that will require you to monitor and record
your own emotion.

6. Flash Cards or Visual Representation
for small group or large group discussion
Can you think of a
time when you were
frustrated with
something?
Emotion Flashcards

7. Interactive Short Stories Books or Role Play
that Relate Lesson Focus
Some suggestions for interactive story relation of emotions include:
•Speakaboo
•UDL Bookbuilder
•Comic Strip Builder
•Storyline Online
•Supersize Me
•The Giver

8. Goal Setting
Our Connection to Others

9. Dealing with Anger
Shown below are the figures included for lessons on Anger Management in
the PEACE curriculum. The process can be generalized and materials can
be supplemented in the same concept format: Assessment / Understanding
Context / Action
Anger Management at practice in a socio, cultural setting

10. Visual Supports for Staying Out of Fights

11. Interactive Short Stories Books or Role Play
that Relate Lesson Focus
Staying out of fights, lessons from a day in the life of:
Nelson Mendela
Mother Theresa
Kai Lan
Jim Hansen
Stephen Hawking vs Leonard Susskind

12. Goal Setting
SEL and Our Connection to Others
Social Media as a platform for class discussion
Facilitators in Goal Setting

13. Bibliography
• Salmon, S. (2003). Teaching empathy: the peace curriculum. Reclaiming
Children and Youth, 12(3), 167-173.
http://www.centerforsafeschools.org/images/Mini_Training_Manual_2009.pdf

14. Teaching
Social Skills
as curriculum
Bridget Bengtson, Lindsey Letcher, Kim Oertwich