Bullying

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Bullying
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Types of Bullying
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• Physical or Direct
• Hitting
• Kicking
• Pushing
• Grabbing
• Rough play

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• Psychological
• Name calling
• Making faces
• Teasing and Taunting
• Making threats

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• Indirect
• Exclusion
• Rejection from a group

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Characteristics of a Bully

• Impulsive
• Dominate Others
• Show Little Empathy
• Often have close friends and are popular.
• Come from homes with authoritarian parenting
  styles.
• See aggression as the only way to preserve
  self-image.

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Extras About Bullies

• W/out intervention the frequency and severity of
  bullying may increase
• Patterns of bullying learned in early years can
  set children on a course of violence later in
  life.
• Schoolyard bullies are seven times more likely to
  become delinquents or criminals than children who
  are not bullies.

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Characteristics of a child who gets bullied

• Sensitive and quite (cry a lot)
• Lonely and lack close friendship
• Poorer than others
• Ethnic or religious minority
• Speech Impediment
• ECT.

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Research!
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• Inflated self-esteem increases the odd of
  aggressive behavior.
• If a bully is threatened by insults or criticisms
  he or she is more likely to respond more
  aggressively

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• Many Children have learned to bully others before
  preschool age.
• This is learned from their living environments

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• Bullying among children is going up and becoming
  a nationwide problem.
• 1out of 5 children admit to being a bully.
• 25-50 of student report being bullied.

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Boys and Girls as Bullies
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• Boys engage in more physical and direct means of
  bullying
• Girls engage in more psychological and indirect
  bullying (exclusion)
• Boys are more likely to admit to being a bully
  than girls. But both equally participate in
  bullying.

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Things we can do as future teachers to help
create an environment without aggression!(pg 80
in your book)
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• Present yourself as a nonaggressive model.
• Do not use threats of aggression to win
  obedience.
• Dont act with violence.

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• Ensure that your classroom has enough space and
  appropriate materials for every student.
• This will prevent overcrowding.
• Remove materials that encourage personal
  aggression.

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• Make sure students do not profit from aggressive
  behaviors.
• Comfort the victim of aggression and ignore the
  aggressor.
• Use reasonable punishment.

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• Teach directly about positive social behaviors.
• Use lessons on social ethics/morality through
  reading selections and discussions
• Build self-esteem by building skills and
  knowledge.
• Seek help for students who seem especially
  isolated and victimized.

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• Provide opportunities for learning tolerance and
  cooperation.
• Emphasize the similarities among people rather
  than the differences.
• Set up group projects that encourage cooperation.