2010-07-26

Bulling and conflict

Preventing bullying can be done by:

Getting children to like each other; this can be done by acknowledging a student and as a reward the whole class gets an extra five minutes free time as a result of another good behaviour. Also make it a point not to thank me as the teacher but let’s thank the student who displayed the good behaviour.

Minimise individual students being acknowledged in public as other students can get annoyed with the individual student and can start feeling like they do the same thing but they never get recognised. This can lead to other students resenting the acknowledged student and therefore they start to call that students names and get aggressive towards them.

Integrate curriculum-based anti-bullying into the classroom.

Recognise who the bullies are and then start a programme where you can start to find out why they behave in this manner and start to implement some strategies or consequences if the behaviour continues.
It is equally important to work with the victim of student being bullied (Mendler, B. Curwin, R. and Mendler, A. page 136 – 147).

Reference List

Mendler, B. Curwin, R. and Mendler, A. (2008) Strategies for Successful Classroom Management Helping Students Succeed Without Losing Your Dignity or Sanity. California, Corwin Press.

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