Full Description
"This timely book includes perfectly sequenced, content-enriched, practical lessons that will enhance any anti-bullying effort. The student-focused activities will facilitate and maintain learning of important anti-bullying concepts that can never be overemphasized."
—Allan L. Beane, Founder and President
Bully Free Systems
"A practical book packed with the kinds of anti-bullying strategies that teachers, coaches, therapists, and kids regularly request. Every chapter is packed with tips on how to stay physically and emotionally safe when bullying occurs, and children are coached to practice assertive behaviors and avoid the victim role."
—Cheryl Dellasega, Professor, Penn State University
Author & Founder, Club Ophelia
Encourage respectful, positive social behavior in all students!
Educators have come to recognize the long-term negative impact that bullying can have on children and the need to proactively teach acceptable behaviors for both in school and out. This user-friendly resource provides K-6 teachers, school administrators, and counselors with fun, interactive lessons and activities that support students' safety and well-being, promote healthy social-emotional development, and improve academic achievement. Using role plays and sample scripts that can be adapted to specific situations, the authors illustrate how to teach critical concepts and behaviors, including how to stand up to a bully and how to stop another student from bullying.
In clear, jargon-free language, this research-based book helps school districts meet the curriculum requirements of recently enacted bullying laws by fostering positive youth development around issues of respect, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships. Readers will also find:
Sidebars and icons that highlight important information
A supply list of commonly found classroom items within each lesson for quick and easy implementation
Illustrations and unit tests for students' review
Suggestions for enhancing lessons
How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression helps educators engage bullies, victims, and bystanders at their own level and teach healthy behaviors to create safe, healthy schools.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. "Same Page" Understanding of Violence, Respect, and Bullying
Defining Violence
What Is Bullying and Respect?
Ground Rules
Statistics and Studies
2. Solving Problems Peacefully and Resolving Conflicts Respectfully
The Five Steps
Statistics and Studies
3. Creating Empathy
What Makes You Feel....?
Emotional Statues: Recognizing Body Language
Statistics and Studies
Unit Test: Chapters 1-3
4. Emotional Control and Anger Management
Guided Visualizations and Anger Monster Poster
Feeling Clouds and Charades: Expressing Feelings in Pro-Social Ways
Deep Breathing and Positive Affirmations
ABCD Exercise
Statistics and Studies
5. Teaching Assertiveness
Teaching Assertive Communication
Handshaking: Using the Qualities of Assertiveness
Recognizing Assertive, Aggressive, and Passive Communication Styles
Practicing Assertive Statements
Assertiveness Role-Plays
Statistics and Studies
6. Responding to a Bully
Bully Proofing Plan of Action
Role-Playing the Bully Proofing Plan of Action
Statistics and Studies
Unit Test: Chapters 4-6
7. The Power of Bystanders
What's a Bystander to Do?
Tattling Versus Teling, A.K.A. Ratting Versus Reporting
Statistics and Studies
8. Playful Teasing Versus Hurtful Taunting
Defining Playful Teasing Versus Hurtful Taunting
You Be the Judge
Statistics and Studies
9. Making Friends: Strategies to Resist Social Aggression
Definition of Social Aggression
Likes and Yikes: Determining Friendship Qualities
Personal Boundaries
Finding New Friends
Statistics and Studies
Unit Test: Chapters 7-9
Final Test: Chapters 1-9
Epilogue
Resources
Resource A: Problems and Conflicts to Resolve
Resource B: Assertive Statements
Resource C: Assertive Communication Scenarios
Resource D: Lesson Outlines
References
