Bully be Gone

Available Year Round

 

Handicap Accessible

 

Instructor will provide four (4) hours of training for teachers and parents over one half day of instruction. All participants will receive course workbooks. Participants will be provided with guides for future reference. 

INTRODUCTION
Bullying goes beyond a simple schoolyard scuffle. The effects of bullying can cause lasting emotional wounds. Parents must nurture individuality and encourage acceptance at home, as well as educate their children how to handle bullying situations. This course will educate parents on how to recognize and address the social and emotional situations that students face daily.

Banks and Banks (2005) maintain that all students - regardless of gender, social class, ethnic, racial or cultural characteristics, and/or exceptionalities (i.e. physical, mental disabilities, gifted/talented) - deserve equality in education. In order to provide a school environment that is conducive to learning and truly educational for all children (as well as the entire child), there must be constant change in the learning communities. This is achieved by honoring similarities and celebrating differences.

 

Direct bullying can be verbal - teasing, taunting, and threatening; physical - hitting, pushing, pinching; stealing and destroying personal property; forcing someone do something that they do not want to do; and groups ganging up on an individual.

 

Indirect bullying can be intentional exclusion “Don’t play with him”; spreading rumors or gossip; social isolation - ignoring or leaving someone out, mean looks or rude gestures, writing (texting or emailing) cruel or threatening messages.

 

TASK
Provide parents with an engaging, hands-on training that will incorporate research based concepts and activities. The goal is to assist parents in understanding bullying, as well as identify ways to guard against bullying situations.

 

ACTIVITY/PROCESS
-Mix It Up
-Social and Emotional Learning
-The Crayon Box
-Speak Up

 

CONCLUSION
Nieto (2000) theorizes that there are four pillars that build mono-cultural education – tolerance; acceptance; respect; and affirmation. With a more pluralistic society (one that embraces minority groups and is tolerant towards them), bullying can be addressed and subsequently become less prevalent in our schools. Educating all those in the learning community (students, parents, teachers, and administrators), we can demonstrate to students how best to cope with and address the issue of bullying.

 

Any way you look at it, bullying hurts!