How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression

Elementary Grade Lessons and Activities That Teach Empathy, Friendship, and Respect
Steve Breakstone - Balance Educational Services, LLC
Michael Dreiblatt - Balance Educational Services, LLC
Karen Dreiblatt - Balance Educational Services, LLC
How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression
August 2008 | 200 pages | Corwin
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"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

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

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

Unit Test: Chapters 7-9

Final Test: Chapters 1-9

Final Test: Chapters 1-9

Epilogue

Epilogue

Resources

  • Resource A: Problems and Conflicts to Resolve
  • Resource B: Assertive Statements
  • Resource C: Assertive Communication Scenarios
  • Resource D: Lesson Outlines

References

References

Additional materials

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

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

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

Unit Test: Chapters 7-9

Final Test: Chapters 1-9

Final Test: Chapters 1-9

Epilogue

Epilogue

Resources

  • Resource A: Problems and Conflicts to Resolve
  • Resource B: Assertive Statements
  • Resource C: Assertive Communication Scenarios
  • Resource D: Lesson Outlines

References

References

Additional materials

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How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression

Elementary Grade Lessons and Activities That Teach Empathy, Friendship, and Respect


August 2008 | 200 pages | Corwin

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"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.


Table Of 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

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Ms Sandra Bonura, School Of Education, Chapman University - Orange
"Once educators appreciate the psychological and social significance of bullying, harassment, and emotional violence in schools, they are ready to translate that awareness into concrete actions. This is where this book comes in. Breakstone and his colleagues offer a well-grounded strategy and a series of tactical exercises designed to accomplish this critical mission."
James Garbarino, Director, Center for the Human Rights of Children, Loyola University of Chicago
"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
“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
“Presents novel strategies to help educators effectively respond to the bullying crisis in our schools. From treatment of animals to assertiveness training, conflict response to body language of the bullied, this book offers an innovative approach to teaching bully-proofing strategies.”
Rhonda Williams, Instructor in Counseling and Leadership, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

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