Life Skills Unit: Conflict Management

Summative Assessment:  Conflict Multi-Flow Map Assessment Task

Target Competency

This performance assessment task gives you an opportunity to document your achievement of the following skills, knowledge, and abilities:

Determine causes of conflict

Linked Core Abilities
� Do your share as a good citizen in your school, community, country, and the world

Directions
For this Assessment Task you will create a Multi-Flow Map illustrating the causes and effects of a particular conflict and write a brief summary.

1.  Review examples of Multi-Flow Maps provided by your instructor.
2. Think of a specific conflict that you have been involved in and write it in the center of the Multi-Flow Map. Examples could include:
� a disagreement among your friends about what to do on a Saturday night; 
� an argument with your boss about scheduling;
� an argument with your siblings about taking your clothes or other possessions.
3.  List the causes of the conflict on the left side of the Multi-Flow Map.  
4.  List the effects of the conflict on the right side of the Multi-Flow Map.
5.  Write a short summary about your Conflict Multi-Flow Map including:
� the type of conflict (one of the five types studied in this lesson)
� a description of the impact of the conflict on the relationship(s) involved
� one or more "I" statements that could be used to minimize the conflict
6.  Check your work using the criteria detailed in the Conflict Multi-Flow Map Scoring Guide attached in the resources area below.
7.  Submit your Conflict Multi-Flow Map to your instructor for feedback and a grade.