Bullying Video for 4-6 Grades: Understanding and Preventing Bullying

1. Bullying Video 4-6 Grades Designed by: T. Migliaccio & J. Raskauskas

2. What is bullying?

3. Bullying There are five identifying features of bullying. • It is deliberate, hurtful behavior. • It is repeated over a period of time. • It is often difficult for those being bullied to defend themselves. • It is difficult for those who bully to learn new social behaviors. • Those who bully have, and exercise power inappropriately over others.

4. Bully 4-6 Video Scenes Definition of Bullying Types of Bullying Effects Why kids often do not report What victims can do What other students can do What school can do Why it is good to report Stories

5. What does bullying look like?

6. Bullying Forms • Physical violence, for example hitting and kicking. • Relational, emotional and verbal, for example name-calling, exclusion, gossip, threatening and coercion. • Damage to property, for example taking lunches or destroying schoolbooks. • Cyber-bullying by text messaging or internet.

7. Relational Aggression Forms • Cyberbullying • Notes • Exclusion

8. Are there are other forms of relational aggression?

9. Roles in the Classroom • Bully • Followers/Henchmen • Victim • Defender • Passive Bystander

10. Why do you think victims are often blamed for being victims? What can victims do to change their situation?

11. Victims • Passive • Provocative

12. How does someone who is being bullied feel?

13. Effects • Miss school • Lower grades/test scores • Fewer friends • Poor physical health • Poor mental health • Problems with family

14. Effects on People • Bullies • Followers • Bystanders • Defenders • Passive Defenders • Victims

15. What other effects have you seen bullying have on people? What can students do to reduce the effects? What can teachers and the school do to reduce the effects?

16. Why do victims of bullying often not tell someone they are being bullied?

17. Why not tell Threats Tattling At Fault Embarrassed

18. Why are people afraid to help?Whose responsibility is it to help stop bullying? How can staff/teachers/schools stop it if they don’t see most of it?

19. What can a victim of bullying do when they are being bullied?

20. Victim Responses Bland responses Get away Confront and say “No!” “Don’t Like It” Report it

21. What can other students do if they know someone is being bullied?

22. Other Students’ Responses • If comfortable, confront bully • Remind of class/school rules • If not comfortable, report to adult • Do not participate • Be a friend to the victim

23. Different Observers • Passive Observer • Disengaged Onlooker • Defender • Passive Defender

25. Why do you think the different observers do what they do? What are their reasons?

26. How do each of the people involved in bullying help to continue it? What responsibility do they have in stopping bullying? Why should they?

27. What can the school/teacher/ principal do when they find out someone is being bullied?

28. School Culture • Violence and Power • Supported by students • Condoned by schools/community/family/government

29. What are things you think teachers should do to make school safer? Deal with bullying? What are some of the obstacles for teachers to help make students feel safer? What can be done to help teachers overcome the obstacles?

30. Staff Responses to Incidences Witnessed • Respond to all situations • Intervene immediately • Stop the incident • Cite Rule • Identify possible bystanders • Talk to victim • Ask what they want to do

31. Staff Responses to Situations Informed about • Gather information about situation • Make a plan with the victim • Determine where it occurred • Supervise that location to witness situation personally • Protect identity of informant

32. How can a teacher be aware of such bullying? What can they look for? Who can help them to be more aware? What would make students want to go to teachers for help? Are there teachers who are safer? Why?

33. How does this affect the learning environment?How does it affect other relationships (family, friends, girl/boyfriends)?

34. Why should a victim of bullying tell someone they are being bullied?

35. Why Tell Informs teacher Student safer Student more successful School safer All students safer Changes the culture

36. What are positive ways to deal with this that the Victim could try? Bystanders? Teachers? School?

37. Bully Stories • Jane’s Story • Relational Aggression • Hannah’s Story • Verbal Bullying

38. What are other ways students can help stop/reduce bullying? Why do you think students refrain from helping to stop bullying/harassment?

39. What are ways teachers/staff can help stop/reduce bullying? What are things schools can do to help stop/reduce bullying? How can schools help to promote/support students: victims, bystanders and defenders?

40. Bullies • Confident Bullies • Followers or Henchmen • Reluctant Bullies • Anxious Bullies • Bully-Victims

41. Why do you think bullies bully people? For each bully type discussed above, why do you think each of the bullies bully?

42. Do boys bully (or get bullied) the same as girls?

43. Gender Differences