Bullying in the School

Homework 5 Please complete, in essay style, numbered responses related to this session’s content, of the following prompts (: Please reflect on the social atmosphere of your school environment within the context of bullying and identify the following components:

a) Is bullying prevalent inside and/or outside the classroom? 

b) What reactions have you observed in student bystanders regarding bullying or unkind incidences? 

c) As a teacher, have you ever observed or been involved in bullying? If so, what was the situation?

How did you respond? What is one thing you have learned from this module that you might apply to such a situation in the future? (If you answered any of these questions in your responses to prompt 1, you may simply refer to those responses, for instance, writing: “c) Refer to response

#1”.) Consider the factors mentioned in this lesson that have been shown to contribute to teacher burnout. Which of these do you identify with (name at least 3)?

What steps do you currently take, and what steps might you begin to take, in order to continue to grow and develop as an educator, and to remain energized and effective, preventing burnout in your teaching profession?

For the sake of increasing learning as well as the benefit of this course on others in your community, please, in your school site (or if school is not in session, contact a fellow educator and/or (a) student[s]), share a specific point (or points) of learning you have gained through this course so far, and that you have found particularly helpful, and solicit their response to this.

Please write, for this prompt, what point(s) you shared with them, and their response to this information.