bullying awareness week
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bullying awareness week. Erica nee – loyola university maryland. Started off with data (Survey). I randomly polled 3 homerooms from each grade: Roughly 80-90 students representing their grade (about 10% of school population) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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STARTED OFF WITH DATA (SURVEY)
I randomly polled 3 homerooms from each grade:
Roughly 80-90 students representing their grade (about 10% of school population)
Anonymous, but included grade and gender for eventual data comparisons
Questions included both closed and open formats (examples):
“On a scale of 1-5, how much of a problem do you thinking bullying is at your school?”
“How often do you see others being bullied?”
“Where do you see others being bullied?”
“What do you think would help the bullying problem at your school?”
“IS BULLYING A PROBLEM IN OUR SCHOOL?”
58%
4%
38%
*6th Grade*
Yes NoMaybe
62%
5%
33%
*7th Grade*
Yes NoMaybe
43%
10%
47%
*8th Grade*
Yes No Maybe
“WHERE DOES BULLYING HAPPEN??”
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“I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT…”
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*Note: 6th graders chose significantly more choices than other grades
ANTI-BULLYING AWARENESS WEEK 2012
FLYERS ALL AROUND SCHOOL MONDAY MORNINGOUTSIDE OF EVERY BATHROOM, OVERTOP OF EVERY WATER FOUNTAIN, ON FOOD MACHINES IN CAFETERIA, ON WINDOWS LOOKING OUTSIDE
ENTRANCE – FIRST THING STUDENTS SEE
UNITY DAY! GRADE-WIDE PRESENTATIONS IN THE MORNING
UNITY DAY GRADE-WIDE PRESENTATIONS:STUDENTS WORE ORANGE TO SUPPORT CAUSE
IN CAFETERIA – PLEDGE STUDENTS CAN SIGN AFTER SEEING PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATIONS INCLUDED
• Overview of definition and examples of bullying (all forms)
• Real-life statistics of how bullying affects Middle Schoolers
• The story of Megan Meier’s BULLYCIDE & the “Megan Pledge” – increase awareness of cyberbullying and empower youth to take positive action to prevent it.
• Empowering students by giving constructive examples of how to stand up to bullies
• “The Bystander Effect” – the power of stopping bullying is in the hands of the people who are bystanders
• A small video clip of real-life ways to “be more than a bystander”
AFTER ONE DAY!
KIDS DO CARE!
Saw this when walking in the hallway –
Someone wrote “no one cares” above Week Long Scavenger Hunt,
So another student erased it and wrote: “we all care! ”
RESOURCES USED:
Bullying:
http://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm/
http://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm/unity-day.asp
http://www.customink.com/stopbullying
Cyberbullying:
http://www.cyberbullying.us/
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org
Megan Pledge:
www.azag.gov/children_family/MeganPledge/MeganPledge.pdf
http://teenangels.org/the_megan_pledge/