Title

A Project about School bullying

by A’ class of

26th Marasleio General Lyceum of Athens

Subtitle: Fighting bullying creatively

No BULLYING

Rationale

• (why we decided to implement the practice)• Many students are likely to experience bullying

at some time in their schooling. Teachers need to provide opportunities for students to take part in learning experiences that address key understandings and skills relating to positive relationships, safety, gender equity, discrimination, bullying and harassment.

Aim/Goal

• (the changes we hoped to achieve as a result of our work)

• To develop activities that raise awareness and counter bullying; also promote ethical values of cooperation, participation, care, fairness, respect, responsibility, democracy.

Objectives

• According to Bloom’s taxonomy, objectives can be defined as follows:

• Cognitive Skills(Knowledge):

• Students developed their English Foreign Language skills through explaining concepts, supporting arguments and creating new ideas and products; they improved generally skills of collecting, arranging, defining, describing, examining etc.

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• Affective Skills(Attitude): Students investigated their emotions for empathy, compassion, understanding; they strengthened their will and courage to face adverse situations; they created strong bonds with their mates through their cooperation and communication on constructing anti bullying activities; they internalized values by comparing, relating, synthesizing tasks.

• Psychomotor skills: Students were motivated to learn new processes and activities; followed instructions given by the teacher to perform various tasks and finally were able to perform these tasks about their bullying theme.

Research questions

• What school bullying is, its types, where, when and why it is happening; also suggested solutions, steps/tips to follow.

Means, tools and materials we used

• Students used:

• free ICT tools (wordle, pixton for comics, smilebox for photoalbums,, fodey.com for the news articles and made several constructions

• -the internet, news articles, statistics etc and made a powerpoint presentation where they presented arguments, views and facts about bullying;

• they composed poems, songs and rehearsed them through avatars in www.voki.com;

• collected photos and scanned material about bullying and exhibited them on a wall, they made an online photo album through www.smilebox.com

• created drawings, wrote short stories, news articles and diary entries about events of bullying;

created online comic strips, expressed their views on the theme of bullying and at the same time entertained themselves with www.pixton.com;

• designed and played with puzzles in www.jigsawplanet.com;

• found videos on you tube about bullying, watched them altogether and discussed them;

• did pair work and group work on anti bullying activities

• Below you can see some samples of our work.•  

What is bullying? “Bullying is persistent unwelcome behaviour, mostly using unwarranted or invalid criticism, nit-picking, fault-finding, also exclusion, isolation, being singled out and treated differently, being shouted at, humiliated, excessive monitoring, having verbal and written warnings imposed, and much more.”

“Bullying is when someone or a group of people with more power repeatedly and intentionally causes hurt or harm to another person or group of people who feel helpless to respond. Bullying can continue over time, is often hidden from adults and will probably continue if no action is taken.” http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/bully.htm

Why do people bully others?

• People bully for different reasons. Those who bully persistently are likely to do so in order to dominate others and improve their social status. They may have high self-esteem ,show little

regret for their bullying behaviour

and not see bullying as wrong. • Other people may bully out of anger

or frustration, they may struggle

socially and could have also been

victims of bullying. • http://au.reachout.com/Bullying

• There are many ways to bully other people. For instance : swearing at them, saying or writing nasty things about them, leaving them out of activities, not talking to them, threatening them, making them feel uncomfortable and intimidate them. Furthermore, they are taking or damaging their things, hitting or kicking them, or force them do things they don't want to do. Bullying is wrong behaviour which makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable and causes future problems.

Bullying isn't:• single episodes of social rejection or dislike• single episode of bad acting• random acts of aggression or intimidation• mutual arguments, disagreements or fights.

These actions can cause great distress. However, they're not examples of bullying unless someone is deliberately and repeatedly doing them to you.

•  • I will take revenge one day because they hate me• I feel so lonely right now...• I am stronger than them• No one wants me as a friend• He is insecure so I could easily bully him• I want a dad like others that he doesn’t hurt me• I don’t know what to do in order to be friendly

Stop Bullying on the spot!• It is a well-known fact that many students in

every school all over the world might have been the victims of a bully. We should try to stop bullying as fast as we can. There are some simple steps that anyone could do in order to prevent the bullies from causing any more harm.

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Remember, bullying is wrong. Do not ignore it. Ask for help.

If everyone works together, we can stop bullying!!!!!!

End Product

• Initiating a wiki platform and uploading students’ work. That was:– a powerpoint presentation, newspaper articles,

poems, short stories, comics, wordles, puzzles, audio files, photoalbums etc

The URL is: • http://schoolbullying-26thgel.wikispaces.com/

You are welcome to visit us!

Don’t forget to comment on our wallwisher about our work!

Teams

• A’ team: lg expert, pc expert, researcher, secretary

• B’ team: lg expert, pc expert, researcher, secretary

• C’ team: lg expert, pc expert, researcher, secretary

• D’ team: lg expert, pc expert, researcher, secretary