Help for parents with facebook and internet safety. Bullying.pdf (application/pdf Object) What's The Big Deal About Internet Privacy? (6-8) Warm-up (5 minutes) TELL your class the following story: Our principal has hired a research company to collect information that will help us make the school better for you. Several observers will watch students and record where each of you goes, how many times you go there, and how long you stay there, including to the water fountain, your locker, the bathroom, the cafeteria, and to visit another student. You will be identified only by a number. At the end of the day, the research company will put all the data together and write a report for the principal. ENCOURAGE students to think about what you just told them.
GUIDE students to consider the following questions: Who else might see the information? EXPLAIN that the story you told is not true; no one will be collecting information about them in the school. DEFINE the Key Vocabulary term anonymous. What's Private? ARRANGE students in pairs. DISTRIBUTE the What’s Private? EXPLAIN to students that every website has a privacy policy. Bullyprevention_ES. School district bully prevention plans filetype:pdf. Bullying Prevention: Tips for Teachers, Principals, and Parents. Updated 10/2013 Approximately 32 percent of students report being bullied at school.
Bullied students are more likely to take a weapon to school, get involved in physical fights, and suffer from anxiety and depression, health problems, and mental health problems. They suffer academically (especially high-achieving black and Latino students). And research suggests that schools where students report a more severe bullying climate score worse on standardized assessments than schools with a better climate. This is all common sense to educators. But especially given that commitment to student safety, why do so many children experience bullying? In Principal magazine, elementary principal, now retired, James Dillon writes that in bullying prevention trainings, he asks participants to choose the one group they believe is most responsible for addressing school violence and bullying: parents, students, school, or community.
Five Tips to Help Principals Prevent Bullying The Bottom Line.