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Finding New Anti-Bullying Strategies To Effectively Deal With Bullying

By Mandy-Jane Clarke

There are many anti-bullying strategies one can employ when it is understood how bullying affects others, and the ways in which bullying can he harmful.

To deliberately hurt another over a period of time and having victims unable to defend themselves under this kind of duress are methods which clearly define bullying. In addition, there are several types of bullying which include: physical contact, verbal abuse, and spreading gossip about another and/or excluding one from a social group.

The best anti-bullying strategies encompass educational workshops so that members of a school staff, for example, can learn how this type of behavior affects children and inhibits their educational goals; begin a process in which the act of bullying is neither acceptable nor conducive to learning by establishing policies which deal with each situation in an appropriate and successful manner; the involvement of parents and guardians is essential in developing and implementing anti-bullying strategies; to become immersed in providing equal treatment and opportunities for all children; and to provide for outside professional experts to become embedded in the school system in order to enable them to deal with each and every case openly, honestly, and solving existing problems with a different approach.

While there are on-going workshops for pedagogues, additional information should be made available on the affects of bullying in the schools. An anti bullying network involving the training of teachers, school aides, paraprofessionals, guidance counselors, and other personnel should be utilized to find new strategies to effectively deal with bullying.

In addition, small groups of children with teachers in supervision should discuss the ongoing problems associated with bullying and what approaches can be used to curtail this behavior. Moreover, everyone in the school environment should feel comfortable in dealing with situations arising out of the bullying spectrum.

These anti bullying strategies can and have worked in some schools. In order for every school to be able to cope with the problems associated with bullying, an anti bully program should be set up and headed by members of the administration including: a guidance counselor, social worker, school aide, parents, children, and a member of the school-based support team.

Once the program is engaged, it should be sent home to every parent, given to every child in school so that the responsibility lies with everyone to secure the safety of children. When incidents occur, immediate action should be taken and the incident should be investigated and appropriately recorded online as well as on incident reports provided to schools which are then sent to the proper agencies.

Once an incident is reported, measures can be taken to deal with the bullying, and the process of anti bullying procedures can begin quickly and judiciously.

This article is courtesy of http://www.Stop-Bullies.com Stop-Bullies.com is a resource site created specifically about Anti Bullying.