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Bullybusters

Bullybusters. By: Bridget Good & Jenny Schmid. ABC News: Bullying Story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wcx2qM5C4g. Score 15. Bullying is a normal part of growing up? T or F F- Each and every one of us has the right to feel safe in our lives and good about ourselves.

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Bullybusters

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  1. Bullybusters By: Bridget Good & Jenny Schmid

  2. ABC News: Bullying Story www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wcx2qM5C4g

  3. Score 15 • Bullying is a normal part of growing up? T or F • F- Each and every one of us has the right to feel safe in our lives and good about ourselves. • Five hundred years ago the word bully meant? • 500 years ago it meant friend, family member, or sweetheart. Big change! • Bullying usually begins at this age level. • 2nd or 3rd grade • One in ______ schoolchildren is either a bully or a victim. • 7 • Bullying affects approximately how many elementary and junior high students in the United States? • 5 million

  4. What is Bullying? • Bullying is an aggressive behavior that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power or strength over and over again.

  5. Physical Bullying

  6. Emotional Bullying

  7. Social Bullying (Relational Aggression)

  8. Who’s a Bully?

  9. Target = Possible Victim

  10. What’s the Difference? • Discuss with a neighbor the difference between tattling and telling. • Tattling: Telling on another student to get he/she in trouble • Telling: Informing a teacher so that another student does not get hurt

  11. What’s the Difference? • Discuss with your neighbor the difference between bullying versus teasing. • The difference between bullying and teasing is how the action is interpreted by the target. • For both girls and boys in elementary and junior high school, the most common form of bullying is, in fact, teasing!

  12. Friends playing roughly, equal power Single event, equal power, not friends Repeated event, unequal power, may or may not be friends Match ‘Em Up! • Horseplay • Fighting • Bullying

  13. Step 1: What is the social environment like at your school? • Change the social norms with regard to bullying • Make bullying “uncool” • Teach bystanders to take action • Establish bullying behavior chart and consequences (see chart attached)

  14. Step 2: Assess bullying at your school • Administer anonymous questionnaire to students about bully (see sample surveys from TheBully Free Classroom.)

  15. Step 3: To be most effective, bullying prevention efforts require buy-in from EVERYONE in the school. • Step 4: Form a group to coordinate the school’s bullying prevention plan. • Step 5: Train your staff in bullying prevention

  16. Step 6: Increase supervision in “hot spots” • Hallways • Locker rooms • Playground area • Restrooms • Buses

  17. Step 7: Set aside class time to discuss bullying and peer relationships with students • Step 8: Intervene on the spot • Be fair, be consistent, be effective • Follow-up with students who are bullied and with students who bully

  18. On the Spot Interventions…

  19. Zero tolerance • Model the positive behavior • Talk about it • Build empathy • Teach coping skills • Teach positive self talk • Teach students to use “I” messages • Post bullying reporting information

  20. Resources • The Bully Free Classroom by Alan L. Beane, Ph. D. c2005 • No-Bullying Program: Preventing Bullying at School by James Bitney and Beverly B. Title, Ph. D. c2001 • Best Practices by Michael R. Carpenter, Ph. D., Olweus National Bullying Prevention Program Trainer

  21. Resources… • www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov • http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies • www.safeyouth.org • www.tolerance.org • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpSgs_UIVvY

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