Lesson 2: How can we Prevent Bullying in our Classrooms?

Lesson 2 - How Can We Prevent Bullying in Our Classrooms?

Our Goal: To create a bully free environment in our classroom. Easier said that done? Here are a few ideas to think about as you start devising a plan to share with your students at the beginning of the year.

Make your expectations clear. Let students know what is and is not tolerated in the classroom and school.

Provide students with examples. Some students may not be sure of what really is or is not bullying.

Have students role play. Let them act out scenarios with one another to help show what bullying may look like in the classroom or even at home.

Bullying Prevention Video for Children

Creating a Caring Community If we creating a caring community in our classroom, there is a better chance for children to understand what is expected of them as a community member in your classroom environment. There are multiple activities you can try with your students to get them to work together and understand one another, which will hopefully teach them to learn to care about an respect one another.

1. Have a discussion with students about what it means to be caring. Ask students what caring should look like, sound like, and feel like, and have them provide examples of caring things they have done in the classroom or for a friend. By having students recognize what it means to be caring, they will be able to then relate it to their own experiences, and be able to bring it into the classroom on their own.

2. One activity you could do with students is something that will bring them together. One activity you could have them do is create "Kind Buckets" and their goal for the week/month/marking period would be to fill each other's buckets up with kindness. Each child creates a paper bucket, which you could use an envelope for, and it is placed on the front of the students desk. When a child catches someone else being kind, they can fill out a sheet of what they saw and thank them for being a kind member of their classroom and place it in the bucket. After the length of time you desire is up, the student who's bucket is the most full can win a small prize.

3. Make sure that students are able to get to know one another from the beginning of the school year. Have students have a getting to know you day, filled with different activities for students to work in pairs and get to know the different members of their caring classroom community. By doing so at the beginning of the year, you are able to make sure students can see their differences, but also know how to look beyond them and come together as a class.

Task #1: Create a lesson plan on how you would create a caring community in your classroom. This can go along with task two, or you can also create a lesson to implement in any subject area of your choice. The importance of this lesson is to show how important it is to foster caring and empathy within your classroom environment. This does not need to be multiple pages long, but needs to include your objectives, materials or assistive technology needed, and a procedure of activities you will be using in your lesson.

Task #2: Create a lesson plan to describe what your bullying prevention program for your classroom would entail. This does not need to be multiple pages long. However, it needs to include your objectives, materials or assistive technology you may need, a procedure to describe what the plan would look like (ex. Questions you may ask student, statistics you may share with students, etc.) and activities that you may have students do to show you their understanding of the topic.

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