Bias Reduction Plan: In the classroom, students may lie to prevent getting in trouble. That is understandable because, who wants to be in trouble anyway? However, I will discourage dishonesty in the classroom by promoting an environment in which students will feel comfortable with each other and with me. I will develop rapport with the students so that they see me as their teacher, their guide, and not an unfriendly figure of authority that imposes punishments to those who break the rules. Kindness will be my ally and will use it to demonstrate that any broken rules in the classroom can result is memorable learning experiences without incurring punishment. Perhaps the love and logic strategy of classroom management would help me reduce this bias because, as I treat students with kindness, dishonesty may be deter. Kindness will help me strengthen the student to teacher bond. My classroom will have zero tolerance to bullying. I will clearly indicate to all students, in the first day of class, that bullying can damage lives and that I will have the duty to any incidents should they occur. I believe in second chances, however, so any students are welcome in my classroom–especially those seeking a positive change in their lives. Again, kindness may serve as a tool to reduce my bias and to build a link between the student and myself. I will research the behaviors associated with bullying and will study the reasons why people bully others. In short, I will address my bias by
Bullying, often labeled as just a part of growing up, is a major problem in America’s schools today. Although it is such a hot topic in our country right now, it is also a long ignored problem that only seems to worsen. The complication with bullying is that no one quite understands it, and it is not taken seriously. The definition of bullying is an overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people. In more simple terms, bullying is not a onetime incident; it is repetitive and happens among individuals when there is an imbalance of power. Statistically, every one in six children are bullied, and this cannot continue to take place. Every child has the right to feel safe and have the pursuit of being happy in which bullying completely takes those rights away.
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among people of all ages, but mostly school-age children. Society has been aware of bullying since around 1693, but it was not viewed as a real problem until the 1970s. “While overall incidents of school violence, such as assault and theft, have declined in the last decade, bullying is on the rise.” (qtd in Tyre) The percentage of middle and high school students that have been victimized by bullying went up from 14 percent in 2001 to 32 percent in 2009. (Tyre)
Being bias can compromise the quality of decision making, they can cause misunderstanding, fights, and sometimes abuse social, emotional and spiritual. Begin bias it makes you treat people differently, and make you also see things differently. For example treating families who are not married and have children differently that families that are married and have children and are married. You can end up showing favourite by not involving children parents who are not married to participate in activities. This can sends a negative message to the parents, the children about their self-worth, and also about you. I plan on overcoming /managing these biases firstly, by Understanding and becoming aware of my own cultural values, beliefs, attitudes and
Bullying in the schools of today harms the innocent students all because of the at home violence the bully had received I will talk about the risk of bullying along with the effect bullying has on students. Bullying has affected people since the dawn of time. The first reference that a bullying scenario was recorded is found in the Bible. This relates to Lord of the Flies in the way bullying took over their lives. From the story to today’s world, they are similar methods of bullying found in both, from making fun of a nerd to beating up a kid these are found in both.
Over the past couple of decades, schools all across the nation have noticed a significant rise in the amount of bullying taking place among their students. “Two decades ago, bullying was often seen as a rare occurrence, where small groups of parents sought protection for their children with the school district”, stated by Vikki Healy Ortiz, writer of the article “New inclusive approach helps schools fight bullying”. However, the same cannot be said for our society in today’s world. Our modern world has advanced tremendously over the past few decades and there are even more opportunities for children to be susceptible to feeling isolated from others because they are simply unique. In today’s society, children have the potential to bully each other outside of the classroom as well.
Bullying is a problem that is on the rise in society; however, many individuals have a distorted view of what bullying entails. Usually when someone thinks of bullying, they assume that it is a standard part of a child’s life. This view, on the contrary, is erroneous. Bullying is actually abnormal behavior, many times, leaving victims with a dismantled self identity. Since some people do not understand the consequences of bullying, the actions of the bully often go unnoticed and are perceived as “kids being kids”. The issue of bullying goes deeper than that nevertheless. Despite the erroneous views that many individuals hold towards bullying, it is still a distortion of normal behavior in children.
To expect greatness in any field of life, it all starts from a place of quality education and that's what America has constantly strived for. School is the place where everyone is given equal opportunity to learn and shape himself or herself into contributing members of society. At the same time each individual’s academic success defines what it means to have a good life. Unfortunately, schools face lots of problems trying to do the right thing. Among major challenges that schools face, bullying has a strong attribution to the poor academic experience among student victims. Today, students still risk being bullied everyday. This paper studies bullying in secondary school with
Assumingly, all high school students are well informed on the topic of bullying and most would agree with anti-bullying policies, but this public argument is not about that. The argument's main point was to encourage change in bullying behaviors from the different point of views (the bully's, the victim's, and the bystander's) in order to promote action against high school bullying among its students. High school bullying is a big dispute that many articles and papers have devoted their time and effort to refute and have succeeded in making people conscious of the issues surrounding them. Yet, they did not succeed in causing actual change and reformation in high schools, which is not the change that this paper wishes to manifest to its audience. Its objective is to illustrate to its teenage audience, what they can do in any bullying scenario, whether they are the bully, the victim, or a person watching from the crowd, that they have an option to prevent bullying and slowly make a change. Its purpose was to show how bullying damages a person's self-worth, how it unfolds pointless beatings, and how mental and emotional disorders come to be. The big dispute was to inspire reasons and give examples on why the prospect of students acting on bullying situations refutes them just comprehending them so, one day the trend of high
Bullying is on the rise across the nation. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 30 percent of students of students were bullied during the 2010-2011 school year. Whether verbal or physical, bullying has a negative effect on the victims. Students who are bullied often experience depression, loneliness, anxiety, and isolation. The common types of bullying in a school setting are physical and verbal. With the rise in the use of social media, cyberbullying has become a big problem among children. Children who bully others are often bullied at home by a parental figure. This is why it is very important to incorporate moral instruction into the curriculum, teaching students about respect and caring for others, instead of bullying them. Schools have started to take extra precautions to eliminate bullying by implementing prevention programs. As educators, it is our responsibilities to prevent bullying from happening in our schools and protect our students. It is important that we model moral and ethical behavior for students to follow. It’s also important that we take precautions and investigate all forms of bullying, instead of only taking action when we witness physical aggression.
Relational bullying prevents a child from being involved or accepted by their peers (Kasier & Raminsky, 2012). This type of bullying occurs among both boys and girls; however it is more common amongst girls. The goal of Whole School Approach or No Blame Approach is to take the focus off the bullying by getting everyone involved and focus more on creating a positive environment (Kasier & Raminsky, 2012). This requires the school to take on the challenge of anti-bullying policy. Setting up clear expectations or rules for children about respecting individual rights these rules should include bystanders and
Moreover, behavioral and emotional differences intimidate many people. This study provided the many different definitions of bullying and is a great jumping point for teachers to understand the causes and effects of bullying, both in school and legally. However, the nine helpful recommendations fail to be truly applicable to a classroom and may even raise more questions than answers. Most would agree that policies that apply to schools are a state-level issue, as per our Constitution. However, if the available definitions of bullying are too broad and students do not report issues or teachers fail to advocate for victims or fail to be strong moral agents and correct issues as they see them then all the other recommendations in the article have substantial
Before taking the implicit bias tests, I thought they would be relatively simple because it would be a lot of matching with what words or people are most similar in your opinion. There could be a spectrum and you would place those words based on the significance they have to you. I believe it will be straightforward and easy, but as I was actually going through the tests, I found out it was more difficult than I expected. Victoria and I come from similar backgrounds with both parents working and having major in STEM. She is in animal science so we talked about how that could influence some of her answers. Like on the Gender-Career test, she had a moderate association with male with family and female with career
Empowering students to reach their full potential physically, intellectually and socially are essential to an individual’s wellbeing. The school’s milieu needs to be a safe and respected space for this potential to reach its peak. A factor that contrasts with this ideology for schools and communities to be a safe place for students to gain a deep understanding of this world is the engagement in bullying practiced by students and even staff members. Preventing behaviours associated with bullying is very important due to the detrimental effects it has on students learning, social and emotional wellbeing and mental health status and therefore school, state and national policy has been enforced to clearly communicate that bullying is not tolerated. Although schools require to provide policy for students to have a safe learning environment, the autonomy and inconsistency of policies within schools has generated a lack coverage in important areas such as the lack of a specific expectation,
Many psychologists, school officials and government in local and state level have tried different approaches to resolve the issue of bullying. Students who endure bullying on a daily basis for a long period of time could suffer from mental illness and even have suicidal thoughts. It is necessary for all school systems to have a policy for bullying with zero tolerance so that these institution can promote a safe and positive environments for all students and educational professionals.
School bullying and bullying as a whole has become a growing concern. The need for more intervention is more recognized, as incidents of bullying and inappropriate acts towards others occur in places outside of the classroom. This literature takes a closer look at bullying in schools. Olwesus (2013) states “the field of bullying research is to some extent plagued by problems, disagreements, and unresolved issues” (p.752). Whether if anyone will agree on the root of bullying, the fact remains that bullying has to be examined at its very core to remedy the matter before it becomes a bigger concern. There is a dire need for intervention based programs to be set in place to address the fact the act of bullying has lasting effects on the bully and the victim. When intervention programs are put into place to address bullying, the act of bullying decreases due to the gained understanding of the effects.