Day 1: Resolve Conflict and Keep the Work Moving

Daily Learning Contract

• Topic: Transferable Skills
• Objective: Students will use listening, compromise, and respectful language to solve a team conflict, then transfer the skill to two careers.
• TEKS: d(4)(B)
• Demonstration of Learning: FYF Conflict Resolution Plan and individual two-career transfer check.

Lesson overview

Before class

• Open the locked FYF crops in Canvas.
• Post the Powerskills Transfer Guide.
• Provide one FYF workbook and one pencil per student, plus one teacher display/device with the transfer guide and timer open.
• Students use FYF pp. 144-145 by default. Print the two-page conflict plan only for assigned no-workbook students: one double-sided copy per assigned student; default copies: 0.
• Use groups of three or four with reader, recorder, facilitator, and designer roles. The designer role is omitted in groups of three. Project the roles; teachers do not create role cards.
• Do not require poster paper. The advertisement is an extension after the conflict plan is complete.

Lesson flow

1. Warm-up: What does a good communicator do? (5 min)

Students name one observable action. Replace vague answers such as “nice” with actions such as “lets the other person finish” or “asks what is unclear.”

2. Powerskills across careers (7 min)

Use FYF pp. 12-14 and p. 139. Students choose two careers from the workbook and defend one Powerskill both careers need. Make the point plainly: technical skill gets the task done; Powerskills help people coordinate the task.

3. Three conflict moves (5 min)

Post and model:

1. Listen: let each person explain the need.
2. Compromise: combine ideas or trade fairly.
3. Stay respectful: address the problem, not the person.

Model the Name row. “We will vote” is incomplete unless the group first hears each need and explains how the final decision will be fair.

4. Smoothie-company plan (20 min)

Students use FYF pp. 144-145 and complete all three rows: Name, Launch date, and Marketing jobs. At minute 12, check one solution from every group.

Look for:

• a specific action instead of “talk it out”;
• a fair division of work;
• calm language aimed at the problem; and
• a backup step if the first plan fails.

If a safety rule is involved, students protect safety, follow procedure, and notify the appropriate supervisor. Compromise never means accepting an unsafe condition.

5. Debrief and check the plan (5 min)

Ask how the consequences of a poorly handled conflict differ across a smoothie company, a hospital, and a construction site. Do not ask students to rank one career as more important.

6. Individual transfer check (5 min)

Each student gives a brief written, oral, AAC, or teacher-conference response. Full evidence names two careers, a likely conflict in each, the first safe move, and what stays the same. Do not assign a second worksheet to students who completed FYF.

Point-of-use frame: “In _, the conflict could be . The first safe move is _ because .”

7. Submit and reset (3 min)

Confirm the FYF plan and individual transfer check, then return shared materials. Trim: if groups are still planning at minute 35, complete the Name and Launch date rows, then give one specific Marketing-jobs action orally. Do not cut the individual transfer check or close.

Active monitoring move

• CFU after the model: students explain why “we will vote” is incomplete before needs are heard.
• Lap 1: check one plan row per group for each person's need and a specific action. If more than one in four groups writes “talk it out,” model a concrete action and backup.
• Lap 2: check safety language. If any group compromises a safety rule, pause and restate protect safety, follow procedure, notify the appropriate adult.

Supports and fallbacks

• Students may complete the plan independently when absent or when group work is not appropriate.
• Allow speech-to-text or oral rehearsal before writing.
• Place this frame beside the group plan: “Each person needs _. We can so that _. If that does not work, we will .” Word bank: conflict = conflicto; listen = escuchar; compromise = compromiso; respectful = respetuoso.
• The poster is never required for full credit. Artistic quality is not assessed.