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What can Teachers Do? (kellybear)

What can Teachers Do? (www.kellybear.com). Increase awareness among school staff so that they understand what relational aggression is and discuss ways to combat it. Post rules and consequences for relational aggression in accordance with school guidelines.

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What can Teachers Do? (kellybear)

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  1. What can Teachers Do? (www.kellybear.com)

  2. Increase awareness among school staff so that they understand what relational aggression is and discuss ways to combat it.

  3. Post rules and consequences for relational aggression in accordance with school guidelines.

  4. No school guidelines?Help create some!

  5. Observe children in the classroom, at lunch, in the hall, on the playground, and before and after school, noting students' nonverbal reactions to peers. Ask yourself: Who is alone on the playground? Who is a group leader? How do her followers act toward others?

  6. Discuss relational aggression with your students to make sure they know that starting rumors, ridiculing others, and other forms of covert aggression are not acceptable.

  7. Reinforce student social interaction skills through the use of role-playing exercises, literature, writing assignments, and other means.

  8. Help girls understand that conflicts are a natural occurrence in friendships and provide them with an opportunity to practice being supportive of one another. Encourage them to honestly resolve problems through open discussion and compromise.

  9. Believe the victim. Relational aggressive girls are skillful at concealing their bullying

  10. Understand that having at least one friend buffers a child from relationship aggression, so facilitating friendships between girls will help them cope with a relational aggressive child

  11. Model respect and caring.

  12. Find assistance for the victim and perpetrator.

  13. Resources • http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip39.html • http://www.relationalaggression.com/research.html • http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/parent/ra1.cfm • http://www.opheliaproject.org/ • http://www.cyberbullying.ca/

  14. Suggested Reading Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls.Rachel Simmons And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents From Bullying, Harassment Emotional Violence James Garbarino & Ellen deLara Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, And Other Realities of Adolescence. Rosalind Wiseman Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle Charlene Giannetti & Margaret Sagarese Easing the Teasing Judy Freedman Please Stop Laughing At MeJodee Blanco

  15. References http://www.relationalaggression.com http://www.kellybear.com Simmons, R. (2003) Odd Girl Out. Hard Court Trade Publishing. San Diego, CA.

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