Bullying
This type of bullying involves hurting someone with words, such as insults, threats, or name-calling.
What is verbal bullying?
Marcus repeatedly calls another student "stupid" whenever they answer a question incorrectly.
What is verbal bullying?
Having different interests, backgrounds, abilities, cultures, or experiences from another person is an example of this.
What is diversity/differences?
This means trying to understand another person's feelings or point of view.
What is empathy?
If you see someone being bullied, one safe thing you can do is tell this trusted person.
What is a trusted adult?
Spreading rumors about someone or purposely leaving them out of a group is an example of this type of bullying.
What is social bullying?
A group of students intentionally refuses to let one student sit with them at lunch every day because they don't like him.
What is social bullying?
Two students may have different cultures but both enjoy playing basketball. This is an example of finding what they have in common.
What are similarities?
A student notices that a new classmate is sitting alone. Showing empathy could mean doing this.
What is inviting them to join you, talking to them, or checking to see if they're okay?
If someone is being physically bullied, joining the fight is usually not a safe way to help. Instead, you should do this.
What is get help from a trusted adult and move away from the unsafe situation?
Hitting, kicking, pushing, or intentionally damaging someone's belongings are examples of this type of bullying.
What is physical bullying?
During gym class, a student intentionally trips another student and laughs when they fall.
What is physical bullying?
True or False: Being different from your classmates means you cannot have anything in common with them.
What is False?
Respecting people even when they have different backgrounds, abilities, cultures, or interests demonstrates this.
What is valuing diversity?
How can bullying contribute to an unsafe school environment?
It can cause fear, stress, conflict, injuries, and students feeling unsafe at school.
Posting embarrassing pictures of someone online to make others laugh at them is an example of this type of bullying.
What is cyberbullying?
Someone creates a fake social media account using another student's name and posts embarrassing comments.
What is cyberbullying?
Name two ways students in a classroom might be different from one another.
Answers may include culture, language, interests, appearance, abilities, family background, beliefs, experiences, or personality.
Why can empathy help prevent bullying?
Because understanding how our words and actions affect others can help us make respectful and safer choices.
You notice a student making fun of another student's accent. What could you say to help make the situation safer?
Answers may include: "That's not okay," "Let's respect the way they speak," or getting help from a trusted adult.
A student repeatedly sends threatening messages to another student through social media, then encourages other students to comment on the posts. Name the type of bullying and explain why.
What is cyberbullying, because the harmful behavior is happening through digital technology and is intended to hurt or embarrass someone?
A student says, "I was only joking," after repeatedly making fun of another student's appearance. The student being targeted is clearly upset. Why can this still be bullying?
Because repeated behavior that intentionally hurts, humiliates, or targets someone is harmful even if the person claims they were joking.
Two students discover that they have different cultural backgrounds but both love the same sport, music, and video game. What does this demonstrate?
What are similarities and differences can exist at the same time?
Your friend says, "I don't want to work with her because she's different from us." What is the best response?
Encourage your friend to get to know the student instead of judging them based on their differences.
A student notices their classmates are excluding someone because of their culture. Explain two actions the student could take to promote safety and inclusion.
Examples include including the student, showing empathy, speaking respectfully, challenging the exclusion, getting a trusted adult involved, or encouraging others to learn about different cultures.