Talking With TJ: Teamwork

This series includes entertaining video stories and fun activities for children. It teaches basic skills related to cooperation and teamwork: making group plans, appreciating differences and including people, and playing as a cooperative team in competitive situations. The six-session curriculum includes a video, leader guide with discussion activities, power phrases, and take-home sheets. This exciting program from the Hallmark Corporation Foundation is a super model for students in a cooperative learning environment.

Talking With TJ: Conflict Resolution

Similar to the Teamwork series, this unit focuses on conflict resolution. The video and supporting materials teach "talking it out" instead of fighting, understanding different points of view, looking at problems from different angles, and replacing "fighting"words with "friendly" words--all ways of finding win-win solutions to everyday problems. TJ's Conflict Resolution and Teamwork Series complement each other but do not have to be used in any particular order.