Anti-Bullying

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Anti-Bullying

• By Sona Avedisyan and Sandra Sandoval

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What is Bullying?

• It can happen face to face, by text messages, or
  on the web
• It is not limited by age, gender, or education
  level
• It is not a phase and it is not a joke
• It can cause lasting harm

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Bullying in School

• What is the role of the teacher? Why should they
  care?
• Important Responsibility
• Safe Learning Environment
• What students face in your classroom
• The Bullying Circle (Olweus, 2010)
• School Violence Down, Bullying Up (Sognovi
  Sognovi, 2010)
• Students at Risk (Sognovi Sognovi, 2010)

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For your Consideration

• Teachers should Consider
• Federal, Sate, and Local Laws
• Statutes
• Title VI Civil Rights Act of
• Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  of 1990 (Department of Education Office or
  Civil Rights, 2010)
• School Policies

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Teachers Role in
Anti-Bullying Programs

• Implementation
• More not Less
• Great Minds Think Alike
• Remember This
• Student Helpers
• Peaceful Attitudes
• (Biggs, Vernberg, Twemlow, Fonagy Dill, 2008)

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Whats a Teacher to do?

• Ask students about bullying
• Ask students about their relationships
• Build democratic classrooms and school climates
• Remember that bullying is also a problem of
  values

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Food for thought

• As a teacher I feel I have a moral
• obligation to help the
• children in my classroom grow toward becoming
  full human
• beings and to feel successful. Teaching
  cognitive skills is not enough
• - Jean Medick

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Did you know that

• 77 of students are bullied mentally, verbally
  and physically
• 100,000 students carry a gun to school
• 1 out of 4 kids is bullied
• Each day 160,000 students miss school for fear of
  being bullied
• A school bullying statistics reveals that 43
  fear harassment in the bathroom at school.
• 282,000 students are physically attacked in
  secondary schools each month
• Every 7 minutes a child is bullied
• Studies have shown that boys identified as
  bullies in middle school were four times as
  likely as their peers to have more than one
  criminal conviction by age twenty-four.

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The effects of bullying on
children

• Children who bully are more likely to engage in
  other criminal behaviors, such as
• Fighting - Experience fear
• Vandalism - Depression
• Truancy - Loneliness
• Dropping out of school - Anxiety
• Stealing - Low self-esteem
• Smoking - Physical illness
• Alcohol/or drug abuse - Suicidal thought
• Fear of going to school
• Riding the bus
• Using the bathroom
• Being alone in the hallway.
• (This fear and anxiety can make it difficult for
  the child to focus and engage in the classroom,
  making learning that much more difficult)

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How to prevent bullying

• Talk with your children
• Tell your child not to respond to bullying
• Empathize with your child
• Work together to find solutions
• Document ongoing bullying
• Block the person who is bullying your children
• Contact law enforcement
• Be persistent

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Warning Signs of
being bullied

• Missing belongings, items, or clothing
• Unexpected injuries or pain
• Nightmares
• Different eating habits
• Hurts themselves
• Runs away from home
• Fear of going to school
• No interest in friends or school
• Feels sad, helpless
• Blames themselves and acts differently

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Warning Signs of Bullying others

• Becomes violent
• Has extra money without explanation
• Blames others
• Will not accept responsibility for their actions
• Has friends who bully others
• Needs to win and be best at everything

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Types of bullying

• Verbal
• Name calling, teasing
• Social
• Spreading rumors, leaving people out on purpose,
  breaking up friendships
• Physical
• Hitting, punching, shoving
• Cyber bullying
• using the internet, mobile phones, or other
  digital technologies to harm others.

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Quote of the day

• People tell me to smile but still,
• I rather frown. Because most dont
  realize, Im smiling upside down.

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Remember the Golden Rule

• WE SHOULD TREAT
• OTHERS THE WAY WE WANT
• TO BE TREATED

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References

• Biggs, B., Vernberg, E., Twemlow, S., Fonagy, P.,
  Dill, E. (2008). Teacher adherence
• and its relation to teacher attitudes and
  student outcomes in an elementary
• school-based violence prevention program. School
  Psychology Review, 374,
• 533-549.
• Office for Civil Rights, (2010). Dear colleague
  letter Harassment and bullying, United
• States Department of Education, White House
  Conference Bullying Prevention,
• on the Internet,
• http//www.stopbullying.gov/references/white_hous
  e_conference/
• (visited April 27, 2011).
• OLWEUS, (2011). Bullying Prevention Program, on
  the Internet,
• http//www.olweus.org/public/bullying.page,
  (visited on May 1, 2011).
• Sognovi, S., Sognovi, C., (2010). The essential
  bullying statistics every parent should
• know. On the Internet, http//www.urbandojo.com/b
  log (visited on
• May 1, 2010).
• Khadaroo, S (2011). Obama takes on bullies at
  white house anti-bullying summit. Christian
  Science
• Monitor, N.PAG.
• Sherer, Y., Nickerson, A. (2010). Anti-bullying
  practices in American schools Perspectives of
• school psychologists. Psychology in the Schools,
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