Our school has implemented the Olweus Bully Prevention Program. Our main reason of course is to keep our students safe and prevent them from being bullied. Our high school started this program last year and the elementary is in their first year of work with it.
One of the components of this program is class meetings with our students. These serve as a way to get our students involved, invested, talking and discussing. So far I have had two class meetings with my class.
Our first class meeting was to set up the ground rules for our class meetings. We brainstormed and made rules for our meetings. We used the rules from the book provided but also discussed each one so the students understood.
Our second class meeting involved discussing the results of the survey our students took about bullying. Each student participated in the survey and answered questions about being bullied and bullying other students. We had an awesome conversation about the fact that 9 students are being bullied and no one is doing the bullying. Because of this conversation I felt we needed to talk more about what bullying behavior is. Students made posters of what bullying behavior looks like, sounds like, acts like.
Here are some of the posters they made!
The title is supposed to be "Bullying Behavior is..."
We talked today about bullying behaviors and calling someone a bully. We talked about how calling them a bully can be mean and hurtful. However, we can talk about how they are acting like a bully and showing bullying behaviors.
This was supposed to be a 30 minute class meeting which has turned into an hour long meeting, including the poster. I still have 4 groups left to finish their posters!
No comments:
Post a Comment