Getting Started - Introduction

Emotional and Social Learning is not always taken into consideration when teachers are planning their classes. Unfortunately, bullying is a reality and an important part within ESL.

Our purpose here is to help you become an active participant against bullying. Through cooperative learning with other teachers, we all can prevent our children from this violent situation. Get ready to understand, participate and erradicate bullying!

Task

Having gathered enough information, you and your group of colleagues will have to identify the main characteristics of bullies, victims and bystanders in order to come up with applicable ideas to reduce bullying inside the educational community. Then, you'll be able to present this research and share this experience with your peers.

Let's build together a scholar community with an anti-bullying approach!

Process

You will do a little research to identify what a Bully, a Victim and a ByStander are. There is plenty of material on the net, so you shouldn’t have any problem with those concepts. Try also to identify all the different types of bullying you can find among your students, are they only done in the classroom? Can the children be bulied in their houses? Then, once you've gotten that information, discuss about it and think of an episode occurred at your school and identify who was representing each of the characteristics mentioned before. You will represent that scene in front of your colleagues, so they can also identify all the participants of bullying.

Finally, you will reflect on this topic to come up with some applicable ideas to prevent bullying in your scholar community and other tips to discuss this topic with your students, in your teachers' meetings and in your parents' meetings. You can also make a Microsoft Office Power Point presentation to make your ideas even clearer.

You will have a week to surf the web for information, discuss with your partners, rehearse the presentation and come with new ideas.

Resources

Here’s a list of a few interesting websites regarding our main topic. Read, interpret and discuss them. As you will find testimonies, facts, more links and loads of information, try to organize what’s useful in this moment because not all of it is related to the tasks. You have to use specific information now, but you may need further information in the future.


Bullying information for parents and teachers


Bullying, what is it?


Edutopia: Social and Emotional Learning: -stop bullying-


Teachernet: Tackling School Bullying


Anti-Bullying Aliance


The Guardian: Lessons in loneliness – gay students as victims of bullying-

Evaluation

Above you can find the elements that will be assessed in your WebQuest. As this is supposed to be presented to an audience, you must also consider communicative skills when pointing out your ideas.

Conclusions

Well done then! If you are consciosuly reading this, then you finished your presentation and you have came up with some conclusions :D !

Now it's time for you to share all your reflections with your students, you colleages at school, parents, management staff and everyone who is inside your scholar community. If you have the possibility you can also upload your presentation to your school's website or you can print it and give a copy to your students.

Now that you're really aware of bullying, don't hesitate in telling others! That's the only way to stop it.

Credits

• WebQuest:

This page is based on the original idea by Bernie Dodge from San Diego State University.

• Created by:

Alejandra Valenzuela and Freddy Orellana
EFL Pedagogy.
Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.