We can't spend just a few minutes once a year talking with
students about bullying and expect it to be a long - term solution to this pernicious problem.
A strong step educators could take would be to periodically ask
students about bullying and their social relationships.
Our students make presentations to elementary - school
students about bullying and to hospital institutional review boards about medical research proposals.
With new demands for accountability, testing, and record - keeping being added continuously, finding time to train staff, to keep a program going, to talk with
students about bullying, and to deal with bullying incidents is difficult.
NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi will join Kennedy and her mother, Ethel, as well as anti-bullying activist Jamie Nabozny at 10 a.m. at Beacon High School in midtown Manhattan to talk to
students about bullying.
The Headmaster, who had personally read testimonies and interviewed
students about the bullying, did not put a stop to it when someone offered a cash incentive on the school website for people to cast their vote in order to bump up numbers for the coach so that he could get the award.
Not exact matches
It's also rolling out a
student version so kids can send anonymous tips to teachers
about weapons, drugs, and
bullying.
EDMONTON — The PCs must stop hiding and tell Albertans what they are going to do
about GSAs — voluntary clubs that allow
students to organize against homophobia and
bullying in schools — before going into an election, said New Democrat leader Rachel Notley.
Nonetheless, just like the principal might feel conflicted
about disciplining the star
student, when it comes to adult
bullies, the decision may be even more difficult for administrators.
It requires schools to be more vigilant
about cyber
bullying of
students, and to take steps to prevent it.
Nearly one - third of all school - aged children are
bullied each year, or
about 13 million
students, White House officials said.
Leaders, teachers,
students and state education commissioner voice concerns
about school funding,
bullying and hate crimes
Jay's resolution argues that Paladino's statements
about President and First Lady Obama violated the state's Dignity for All
Students Act, which requires school districts to provide students with an environment free of discrimination, harassment and b
Students Act, which requires school districts to provide
students with an environment free of discrimination, harassment and b
students with an environment free of discrimination, harassment and
bullying.
Stacey Kite, Robert Gable and Lawrence Filippelli of the Johnson & Wales University, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, surveyed more than 4200
students about their knowledge of potential risks, appropriate use, and their behaviors on the internet and social networking sites, especially regarding behaviors that may lead to cyber
bullying or contact with potential internet predators.
«We knew we had to study this empirically, and I was stunned to discover that
about 1 in 20 middle - and high - school - age
students have
bullied themselves online.
About 19 percent of
students experienced biased - based
bullying but did not miss school.
Juvonen does not advocate zero - tolerance school policies, which she said punish
students but do not teach them
about bullying.
The research - based anti-
bullying program, called KiVa, includes role - playing exercises to increase the empathy of bystanders and computer simulations that encourage
students to think
about how they would intervene to reduce
bullying.
When deciding on whether or not to implement anti-
bullying programs, schools should view their efforts to reduce
bullying as promoting a positive school climate for all
students as focusing on wide - ranging benefits will help motivate schools that are concerned
about limited time and resources.
A team of researchers from Princeton, Rutgers University and Yale University engaged groups of influential
students in 56 New Jersey middle schools to spread messages
about the dangers of
bullying and school conflict.
My understanding is that
students are more focused because they have learned how to effectively manage their attention, they like being in class, and they're less worried
about discord and
bullying.
A grounding text allows
students to explore and discuss their feelings around difficult scenarios (like
bullying) without it being
about their personal experiences.
He also spoke
about the issue of
bullying — which would confront
students when they started teaching careers — and
about his passionate belief in the importance of providing support to children who had suffered loss of a parent or loved one.
Just because a school hasn't received any complaints from
students or parents
about bullying, doesn't mean that
bullying isn't occurring in the school.
The team can define
bullying, discrimination, and harassment together, can think
about how to articulate a policy that protects
students from relational harm, and can consider formative consequences when harm occurs.
«A significantly greater proportion of females than males were worried
about finding their way around or getting lost, hard classes, hard or unfriendly teachers, getting to class on time, fitting in or making friends, negative peer group pressure, being
bullied, being made fun of, older
students, new and more
students and riding the bus.»
Don't Get Even; Get Help: Support for Victims of
Bullies Students in one Canadian school who decided to do something
about bullying in their school.
Learn how what you believe
about bullies can hurt your
students!
Provide
students with a template and let them create a pinwheel that reflects on one side their thoughts
about war and peace, tolerance,
bullying, living in harmony with others You might use this activity to incorporate one of your writing goals / standards for the year; for example, the writing might be a poem, prose, haiku, or an essay.
As a whole,
students are more willing to talk
about bullying behavior, and this has made them more aware of the consequences of not telling someone
about it.
During October,
students and teachers can join a nationwide dialogue
about bullying prevention that will play out through the engaging medium of comic strips.
In Cross's study, nearly half of all
students reported that telling a teacher
about being covertly
bullied resulted in no improvement or a worsening of their situation.
In addition, the
students were asked to «report the frequency with which they were
bullied in each of five ways — belittled
about religion / race, belittled
about looks / speech, hit / slapped / pushed, subject of rumors or lies, and subject of sexual comments / gestures.»
He told a story of some
bullies who created a fake Twitter account and posed as an official school channel, tweeting out obnoxious and hurtful things
about other
students.
Much
bullying is based on biases, and those biases need to be addressed by refuting stereotypes and by having
students learn
about each other and develop empathy to bridge differences.
However, substantially larger proportions of the same
students reported experiencing four specific sorts of
bullying: 62 percent reported having been belittled
about their looks or speech; 56 percent said they had been hit, slapped, or pushed; 60 percent claimed they had been the subjects of rumors; and 52 percent indicated they had been subjected to sexual comments or gestures.
Whether it's
about dealing with
bullying or the idea of being in charge of your own happiness, invite
students to look at what is important to them and what they stand for.
Paying closer attention tothe content of
student work may yield cluesfor school officials concerned
about issuessuch as depression, anger, eating disorders, and
bullying, says Ted Feinberg, who spenttwenty - six years as a school psychologist andis now assistant executive director of theNational Association of School Psychologists.
While it's easy to go down a pretty dark road when sharing stories
about bullying, I wanted to mix up this collection with positive messages to share with your
students, and introductions to some of the amazing organizations out there that offer tools for fighting back against
bullying.
But while the goal of the project is to reach out to younger
students, writing the books also has opened the door for a lot more discussion at Olsen
about bullying, noted Correll.
I normally don't tell them to stop because I don't want [them] to turn against or argue with me... I went to the Youth Summit and [a
student] talked
about how he used to
bully and act as a bystander with his friends... The Friday after the Youth Summit before I got out of school for spring break, I tried to get to know the girl my friends make fun of.
: Support for Victims of
Bullies Education World continues its week - long exploration of
bullying with a story
about students in one Canadian school who decided to do something
about bullying in their school.
Although the likelihood of online
bullying is low on average, lots of
students are effectively sounding an alarm
about their experiences — one that goes unheard in the first two presentations but comes across clearly in the third.
The leader then projected copies of
student papers on the wall, where we read several stories
about bullying, gender discrimination, etc..
For example, one
student wrote a play
about bullying, in which aliens from another planet observe life on Earth and intervene to help the characters through a conflict.
In what ways do you educate your
students about the implications of sexting and cyber
bullying?
Educators should be age appropriate
about any discussion, Sadowski says, and cites the work of the Welcoming
Students organization, which offers lesson plans, professional development material, and family education focused not on sexuality, which is what usually prompts parent pushback, but on the harmful effects of
bullying, understanding gender stereotypes, and family diversity.
However, when the
students were asked
about bullying, it became evident that teachers, who often stood on the sidelines at recess, were unable to see the
bullying that took place behind a snow bank.
Instead of using just one approach to stop
bullying and better handle conflict, they are using several methods, including teaching elementary - aged
students about tolerance and empathy through antibullying, curriculum - based programs sold to schools such as Side By Side and Second Step, and using the Step to Respect program in middle school.
Far from media stories
about cyber
bullying, meanwhile, she found that most
students use the medium to reach out to their peers for emotional support and as a way to develop self - esteem.