Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is becoming an issue in our schools and this is an example of bullying that students are experiencing. In this example I explain how I would handle the situation and the steps that I would take in solving this problem but more importantly how I would try and prevent it from happening in the first place.

I think that being informed about all of the forms of bullying is very important for teachers. Learning about cyberbullying really opened my eyes to see that there are so many different ways for students to bully each other. Within this short couple of paragraphs I also talk about the steps that I would take to attempt to prevent cyberbullying or any kind of bullying from happening.

Cyberbullying

 A student has come to me for help regarding another student who has created a fake email account and is sending other male students love notes from this student. The first step that I would take as an educator would to be to contact this students parents to gain their support in this situation. One of the tips that I read about is the benefits of instructing parents to contact an attorney. If the school is not permitted to handling this situations than the parents can pursue different routes in order to help their child if the situation calls for this action. The next step that I would take as long as I had the support of the student, parents and administration would be to speak to those boys who have received this email. I would have them print it out and bring it to me, making sure that the email address that it was received from was included. These emails would then be given to the administration where I would hope the issue would be resolved.  If this situation were to occur in my classroom, which included my students, the bullies and the student being bullied I would want to spend some time talking about the negative effects that cyberbullying can have on a person and on a school. There are many resources online that I can use such as scenarios that have happened at other schools, worksheets that the students can fill out, or articles that they could read that included the legalities, consequences and negative tolls on the student being bullied. I may then have the students create anit-cyberbullying posters or have then prepare a presentation for younger students about cyberbullying and how we as a school wide community can prevent this from happening.