Bullying In Schools

Kayla Kendall & John Mitchell

Professor Deborah Cale
December 2nd, 2014

Standard #3: Learning Environments

The teacher works with others to create environments that support individual and collaborate learning, and that
encourage positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.
Description:
We have constructed a PowerPoint Presentation to explain what bullying is in the school system. There are many
types of bullying and many ways to prevent it and this presentation expresses each type and gives you good advice on
how to help your students, friends, and children stop bullying and prevent from being bullied.
Rationale:
To document my understanding of Standard # 3, Learner Environments, I selected to make a PowerPoint
regarding bullying because it is evident that I am going to deal with these situations in my near future as a teacher.
My workplace is the environment for my students and I so, understanding the environment around us is a important
aspect in our lives.

What Is Bullying?
School bullying can consist of physical violence against a student, but more
often involves teasing and attempts to humiliate the target student in front
of others.

Types of bullying include:

Verbal
Cyber-bullying

Physical
Covert or Hidden

Verbal Bullying
Verbal Bullying is when the attacker uses

words to hurt the victim. This could include

name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation,
homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal
abuse.
Ways to stop it: Empower students to support

each other. Teaching children to work together

to stand up to a bully, encouraging them to
reach out to excluded peers, celebrating acts of
kindness, and reinforcing the availability of
adult support can transform what experts call
the silent majority into a caring majority of
students who become part of the anti-bullying
solution.

Cyber-Bullying
Cyber-Bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person,
typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
Ways to prevent it: Know the sites your kids visit and monitor their online activities. Ask where they
are going and what they are doing with it. Also, encourage your kids to tell you immediately if they, or
someone they know, is being cyberbullied. Explain that you will not take away their computers or cell
phones if they confide in you about a problem they are having

Physical Bullying
Physical Bullying is anything that hurts

someones body or damages their

possessions. Stealing, shoving, hitting,
fighting, and destroying property all are
types of physical bullying.
Ways to prevent it: Establish clear consistent

consequences for bullying behavior that all

children understand. Discipline should
address the behavior and its underlying
causes. Incorporating positive behavioral
interventions with loss of privileges or other
consequences will do more to change
students behavior than approaches based
solely on punishment

Covert/Hidden Bullying
Hidden Bullying is a sort of bullying is often harder to recognize and can be carried out
behind the bullied person's back. It is designed to harm someone's social reputation and/or
cause humiliation. Covert bullying includes, lying and spreading rumors, negative facial or
physical gestures, menacing or contemptuous looks, playing nasty jokes to embarrass and
humiliate, mimicking unkindly, encouraging others to socially exclude someone, or damaging
someone's social reputation or social acceptance.

Ways to prevent it: Parents must learn to reinforce their childrens positive behavior patterns and
model appropriate interpersonal interactions. School psychologists, social workers, and counselors
can help parents support children who tend to become victims as well as recognize bullying
behaviors that require intervention.

Discussion Questions
1) What do you think that schools should do to prevent bullying?

2) What do you think the best way to stop it in action is?

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