Activity 3: Answer guide for choose a strategy to respond to bullying Strategy Main points about this strategy When is this strategy a good idea When is this strategy not a good to try? idea to try or not useful? This activity will help us learn more about NB: The key sensitivity with teaching students about these strategies is when to use the strategies. Some of these will work sometimes. Some of them work avoiding implying that students must better for some types of bullying. Some of use them, or are failing if they can’t them work if you do them right from the deal with bullying themselves. It is first time you get bullied, but might not be understandable if a student does not much help if the bullying has been going on feel they can stand up to bullying; for a long time. And sometimes they won’t bullying is disempowering. It can be work, and you need to get help to stop the scary and hurtful. bullying. We will talk about when each strategy might be good to try. Ignore them Bullying can happen because the person For verbal bullying and some social This might not be useful/good: doing the bullying gets a reaction they like. bullying. If someone is hitting or So sometimes the best response is NONE! When you feel safe to get away physically hurting you. It’s normal to feel bothered, but don’t let without being chased/pursued. If someone is breaking or When you have somewhere safe to stealing your things. the other person see this. The main thing is not to show any reaction, go nearby. If you think they might pursue so you are acting like you are ignoring NB: Teachers who suggest this you if you leave. them. If you can, turn your back and walk strategy of them’ to students If you have a long way to go to ‘Ignore away (see next strategy). when they report being bullied must somewhere safe. It doesn’t mean you should pretend the give students much more If bullying has been going a long bullying didn’t happen though. You might information about how to do this, time. still want to try one of the other strategies and what to do instead. If you can’t hide your reaction. like support from your friends’. ‘Get Tell them to stop and then walk away
Activity 3: Answer guide for choose a strategy to respond to bullying Strategy Main points about this strategy When is this strategy a good idea to try? When is this strategy not a good idea to try or not useful? This activity will help us learn more about when to use the strategies. Some of these will work sometimes. Some of them work better for some types of bullying. Some of them work if you do them right from the first time you get bullied, but might not be much help if the bullying has been going on for a long time. And sometimes they won’t work, and you need to get help to stop the bullying. We will talk about when each strategy might be good to try. NB: The key sensitivity with teaching students about these strategies is avoiding implying that students must use them, or are failing if they can’t deal with bullying themselves. It is understandable if a student does not feel they can stand up to bullying; bullying is disempowering. It can be scary and hurtful. Ignore them Bullying can happen because the person doing the bullying gets a reaction they like. So sometimes the best response is NONE! It’s normal to feel bothered, but don’t let the other person see this. The main thing is not to show any reaction, so you are acting like you are ignoring them. If you can, turn your back and walk away (see next strategy). It doesn’t mean you should pretend the bullying didn’t happen though. You might still want to try one of the other strategies like ‘Get support from your friends’. For verbal bullying and some social bullying. When you feel safe to get away without being chased/pursued. When you have somewhere safe to go nearby. NB: Teachers who suggest this strategy of ‘Ignore them’ to students when they report being bullied must give students much more information about how to do this, and what to do instead. This might not be useful/good: If someone is hitting or physically hurting you. If someone is breaking or stealing your things. If you think they might pursue you if you leave. If you have a long way to go to somewhere safe. If bullying has been going a long time. If you can’t hide your reaction. Tell them to stop and then walk away
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