Cyber Bullying

1. Prevention: There are many ways to prevent cyberbullying from happening, in and out of classrooms.

1.1. https://stompoutbullying.org/get-help/about-bullying-and-cyberbullying/international-suicide-prevention-resource/

1.2. There are many websites all over the internet that you can contact if you need help.

1.2.1. You can prevent cyberbullying from happening at all by informing your students about the consequences and showing them just how serious it is.

1.3. Parents should learn how to communicate about bullying to their children, the more aware parents are, the better. What Every Parent Needs to Know About Protecting Their Child from Cyberbullying

2. Responses to cyberbullying: As a teacher, there are ways to respond and ways not to respond.

2.1. Ask students how they are, if they tell you about being bullied they should call home, and report it to their principle.

2.2. If a teacher notices any suspicious activity or the temperament of a student changing, they should look into it right away.

3. Lesson Ideas: There are many lessons that you could do with any age group of children.

3.1. For older children, middle to high school, I have always like the idea of providing each student with a small tube of tooth paste and telling them to "have at it". Squeeze it all out, make a mess on their desks. After they do this, tell them to put the tooth paste back in the bottle. Clean it up. The students will be confused and reluctant. After they try for a little while, you make the comparison of words that come out of their mouths to getting the tooth paste back in the tube. You can't. So be careful what you say.

3.2. For younger children K-5, you could have students say something nice about all the students sitting around them. You could make an art project out of it. Put all the nice words on a bulletin board.

4. Definition: the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature

4.1. Commenting something mean or nasty on someone's photo is cyber bullying.

4.2. It is easy to be a cyber bully, because bullies can remain anonymous.

5. Consequences: The consequences of cyber bullying can be very severe.

5.1. You can be suspended or expelled from schools. You could even be arrested in some cases.

5.2. A more serious consequence of cyberbullying is death. Many cases result in the person who is being bullied, committing suicide.

5.3. Cyber Bullying : Create No Hate