Online Resources for Teachers:
Bullying
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Information
The following materials are intended to help teachers familiarize themselves with how the law addresses the issue of bullying, and to suggest some ways to help their students gain a greater understanding of bullying, as well as its legal implications.
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Bullying Overview
Intended For: Teachers
The Overview is intended to provide a basic working knowledge of the subject of bullying: defining it, outlining the consequences and affected parties, how it might be prevented, and the legal aspects and implications.
Lessons
Bullying: Building a Definition
Intended For: Teachers, Secondary Grade Level
This package helps to facilitate a discussion of bullying. Students develop a functional definition, and develop and apply their understanding of bullying through several formative case studies. An additional activity aims to find examples of bullying in literature. Includes student worksheets, teacher’s guide and 2 pages suitable for printing as overhead transparencies.
Bullying: Guidelines for Discussion
Intended For: Teachers
This document offers guidelines for constructive, fair and respectful discussion with your students. While these guidelines are suitable for any type of discussion, they also help explore the topic of bullying specifically.
Bullying: Empathy Activity
Intended For: Secondary Grade Level
This activity explores the emotional impact of bullying and how bystanders might intervene. Includes student worksheets and a teacher’s guide.
Bullying: Rules and Bylaws
Intended For: Secondary Grade Level
This activity explores the purpose and effect of rules which govern behaviour within the school and in the community. A connection is made between classroom rules, school rules and responding to bullying. The activity culminates with students constructing and evaluating an anti-bullying rule for their classroom or school. Includes student worksheets and reference pages that provide information on bylaws and other approaches Alberta communities have used to address bullying.
Bullying and the Criminal Code
Intended For: Secondary Grade Level
This activity addresses and explores the legal consequences of bullying particularly in relation to the Criminal Code of Canada. Includes references and links to the CCC for specific offences.
Links
The following links are to external resources that teachers may find useful for lesson plan source material, student exploration and expansion of personal knowledge on this topic. Please contact us to report any broken links.
General Bullying Information
Stop a Bully
“… a safe Bullying Reporting Program, allowing any student in Canada to report bullying to school officials, without any risk of becoming a target themselves. This program is available to any Canadian school so victims and witnesses of bullying can safely and anonymously submit a Bully Report and photo/video evidence.”
Alberta Education: Safe and Caring Schools Initiative
“A safe and caring school is an environment wherein all are accorded respect and dignity, and their safety and well-being are paramount considerations.”
Anti-Bullying Centre – Trinity College Dublin
Anti-Bullying Alliance
The Resources section of this site may be of particular interest.
Bullying.org
A collaborative Canadian bullying project.
Bully Free Alberta
This Government of Alberta website has a variety of resources for teachers, parents and youth including the following links to projects directed towards youth.
B-Free
This bullying website targeted at youth contains information, an online quiz, and stories by youth.
S-Team Heroes
Children can practice dealing with bullying in a variety of contexts through this online game.
24 Hour Bullying Prevention Helpline: Alberta
1-888-456-2323
Bullying Prevention: The Heart of the Matter (Alberta Education)
This resource is part of Alberta Education’s character education resource materials.
BullyingCanada.ca
A youth created and operated anti-bullying website.
BeatBullying.org
“Beatbullying works with children and young people across the UK to provide them with all important opportunities to make positive and lasting changes to their lives and outlook.”
Bullying UK
Another British anti-bullying organization.
Bullying No Way
A website produced by the Australian education authorities.
Bullying in Schools and what to do about it
An informative website by Dr Ken Rigby, University of South Australia A video excerpt on the site is a brief but good overview of bullying related issues.
Canadian Children’s Rights Council: bullying information page
Bullying Prevention – Long Live Kids
A site created by Concerned Children’s Advertisers (formerly Canadian Children’s Advertisers). Contains public service announcements that encourage kids to speak up about bullying. Lesson plans are also available for download, after a free registration.
CBCLearning
Check your local school library or resource distribution system for the resources available here. Also, visit the CBC bullying backgrounder.
Centre For Children and Families in the Justice System
This is the Centre’s bullying information page, including their “When Teens Hurt Teens” study.
CBBC Bullying Page
Part of a larger BBC site for children.
Assessment Toolkit for Bullying Harassment and Peer Relations at School
(PDF version) Provided by The Canadian Public Health Association. This comprehensive assessment program can be an integral part of a new or existing school-wide bullying program.
Teachernet – Tackling Bullying (UK Department for Children, Schools and Families)
The site covers many bullying-related topics, including cyberbullying of teachers and school staff.
iamsafe.ca
This site contains a variety of bullying information and resources. The News section contains an archive of their newsletters and the Resources section directs you to a range of different resources from books, to film to research .
No Bully
A site sponsored in part by New Zealand Police.
No More Bullies
A National Film Board of Canada short with a bullying theme. This site has a downloadable teacher’s guide for use with the film. Part of theShow Peace: Conflict Resolution for Everyday Life website. The NFB has also created “It’s a Girl’s World”, a short film and site about bullying by girls.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Visit the OECD website and search the term “bullying” to retrieve a variety of reports and presentations.
Parent’s Primer on School Bullying (Reader’s Digest)
This bullying overview for parents also links to a question and answer forum at the end of the article.
Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network
PREVNet is a coalition of Canadians concerned about bullying sponsored by The Networks of Centres of Excellence, Queen’s University, and York University. The site contains a variety of research toolkits and resources.
Public Safety Canada (“bullying” search)
This search at Public Safety Canada links to a variety of their bullying resources.
The Society For Safe and Caring Schools and Communities
This site offers a number of lessons and activities in its Resources section for elementary and secondary students, as well as web-based Micro Workshops for teachers. There are a number of useful bullying-focused resources, guides, booklets, presentations and scripts on this resource page.
Cyberbullying
Text Messaging Harassment and Other Cyberbullying Resources
A page of information and resources – mostly US-based, but may be of value
Be Web Aware: Cyberbullying Page
A Canadian web awareness page oriented at a variety of issues for a broad spectrum of age groups
Cyberbullying
Bullying.org’s cyberbullying website. The site has an information brief in PDF format available for download.
Digizen.org
A digital citizenship website from Childnet International focusing on social networks and cyberbullying
NetBullies
“Protecting kids form each other online”
The Bully Lab
A Queen’s University site featuring the work of Dr. Wendy Craig, professor in the Department of Psychology.