Educators can be powerful agents of change in young people's lives. Bullying can take many forms, such as: hitting or punching, teasing or name-calling, intimidation through gestures, social exclusion, and sending insulting messages or pictures by mobile phone or using the Internet (also known as cyber bullying).
In this Educators' Corner, we hope that you'll
- Gain some new information about bullying;
- Learn some strategies for helping to prevent and deal with bullying at school; and
- Find some helpful materials from the Stop Bullying Now! Campaign that you can use to help students in your school and community.
What do we know about bullying?
What can school administrators do?
What can teachers do?
What can ANY adult at school do to help?
Stop Bullying Now! TFK Extra! Illustrated Book Series
The TFK Extra! Illustrated book series, featuring the Stop Bullying Now! webisode story lines and characters are now available for download and printing. There are three volumes in the series and a Teacher's Guide. The Illustrated books are valuable tools to use in the community as well as the classroom.
If you've distributed the Illustrated book series in your classroom, we encourage downloading the Teacher's Guide and Questions files to lead your class in a discussion about the bullying themes in the illustrations. You'll find a complete set of discussion questions (one for each of the three volumes) to help facilitate an open discussion about bullying prevention. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and view the documents. You can download a free version of the software for your computer at www.adobe.com.
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