Chapter 6 - Social Context of schools

I created a brochure that demonstrates what I would do if I encountered someone being bullied and how I would adress this issue to my students to make them really think about this issue.

Here is the content that was presented in the brochure:

To help prevent Bullying, my primary focus would be to gather some teachers together and create a “bully awareness program” This program would allow students who are being harassed or verbally abused to go and seek help. This program would also have periodic assemblies that addressed the issue of bulling. It would talk about the morels of bulling others and what to do if you are bullied, for instance use the “teachers presence” strategy when you feel unsafe. Besides these discussions, there would be a certain person who any students should go and talk with if they are being bullied or have been bulling somebody. All the students should know who this person is.

What I would do….
If I walked in to class one day and heard or saw someone being bullied I would immediately step in. First I would tell the student doing the bulling why this was wrong. For example , if a Spanish student was being criticized and verbally being called names I would say something about that students race being no different that the bullies. I would try to go deeper and make sure the bully understood what he had been doing and why it was immoral. I would continue to keep a close eye on the Bully to make sure that student keep harassing the Spanish student. Since I can not do this alone, I would let other teachers know what I saw so we could keep an eye out. If I saw anything happen again, I would bring the bully to the principles office to talk or if there was a bully program in place I would bring that student or group of students to have a talk with that councilor.

How will I help students handle this:
Again if bulling is a big enough issue in a certain school where I will teach, I feel having a special program to deal with these issues would be appropriate. If I happen to have a certain issue in the class, for example the Spanish student incident. I might talk about that issue with the rest of the class if the Spanish student was alright with that. That way we could hear everyone's opinion and perhaps how the Spanish student is and was feeling. I don’t want anyone in my classroom or school to feel unsafe. Therefore it will be my job and the other teachers jobs to catch and deal with issues like these in order to keep the students safe