Final Project

1. Bullying Throughout School
Corporations
Abby Messmer
Module 6
June 19, 2011

2. Menu
1. What characteristics
of bullying, bullying
victims, and schools 4. Conclusion Page
are associated with 5. Reference Page
increased reporting of
bullying to school
officials?
2. Student Reports of
Bullying and Cyber
Bullying
3. How Teachers Deal
With Bullying

3. “ In school year 2006–07, some
8,166,000 U.S. students ages 12
through 18, or about 31.7 percent of all
such students, reported they were
bullied at school, and about 940,000,
or about 3.7 percent, reported they
were cyber-bullied anywhere.”
(Devoe)

4. What characteristics of bullying, bullying
victims, and schools are associated with
increased reporting of bullying to school
officials?
• Bullying is very
frequent and common
in the United States.
• There are 51
characteristics of
bullying, bullying
victims, and bullying
victims’ schools.
• Many bullying incidents
go unreported.
(Hanson)

5. Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying
Victims, and Bullying Victim’s Schools
• Incidents That Are Not Reported:
• Increased Reporting: – Making fun of the victim
– Injury – Calling the Victim Names
– Physical Threats – Excluding the Victim
– Destruction of Property – Spreading Rumors About the
Victim
– Physical Contact
– Forcing the victim to do things
– Greater Frequency they don’t want to do
– Multiple Times – Bulling that occurred in the
– At Least One Occurrence school building and school
On The Bus grounds
(Hanson)

6. Reflection #1
This article did a very good
job at explaining what is
considered bullying.
There are many forms of
bullying and a lot of them
are not taken as seriously
as the should be. This
specific article got the
point across that bullying
clearly does exist.

7. Student’s Reports of Bullying
• Between the years of 2006
and 2007 there were
8,166,000 students between
the ages of 12 and 18 that
were bullied.
• Student Characteristics:
sex, race/ethnicity, grade
level, and household
income
• School Characteristics:
sector, locale, level,
enrollment size, student to
(Devoe)
full time equivalent, etc.

8. Sections
• Section 1: • Section 3:
– Shows students who - Focuses on cyber-bullying
reported any kind of anywhere and shows estimates
bullying whatsoever and is on the frequency of cyber-
grouped together by how bullying and what form each
they were bullied
age group experiences.
• Section 2:
– Focuses on bullying at • Section 4:
school and shows the
location of bullying, the - Shows percentages of
frequency of bullying, & the students who were bullied
types of bullying that anywhere because of poor
occurred to specific age school conditions.
groups.
(Devoe)

9. Reflection #2
Throughout this article
there were a lot of things
that I was not aware took
place. I did not realize
that there were so many
children that are made
fun of and picked on
throughout the United
States daily. There really
needs to be an end that is
put to this.

10. How Teachers Deal With Bullying
• The term bullying refers to
the direct physical and
verbal acts of hitting, kicking,
taunting, or teasing another
individual.
• There are many things that
are considered bullying but a
few of the ones that people
normally don’t think are
included are manipulating
and excluding others.
• All teachers need to be
aware of every students
feelings and things that are
going on in their classroom. (Gleason)

11. Strategies for Dealing with Bullying
1. Turn the situations into a
learning experience for the
children.
2. Have the class brainstorm
ideas to prevent it from
ever happening again.
3. The individual that is
bullying is never singled
out or talked to in front of
the class, they are always
alone where no one can
hear them. It is now
believed that if something
is said in front of the class
then it will not happen
(Gleason) again.

12. Reflection #3
One thing that teachers
should be able to do
before they are
allowed to get their
teaching licenses is to
know how to control
bullies. There are
many children that are
bullied on a daily basis
and it is not right.
There are strategies
that each teacher
should do to help stop
this issue from
reoccurring.

13. Conclusion
1. There are so many different
types of bullying that exist
now. They can range
anywhere from text
messaging to verbally yelling
at someone.
2. Bullying happens to everyone,
it doesn’t matter on the
individuals race, gender, or
grade. It does however effect
some individuals more than
others.
3. One way for teachers to try to
eliminate bullying is by
talking to their students in
front of the class and not just
alone and private.

14. Reference Page
• Devoe, J, & Murphy, C. (2011). Student reports of bullying and cyber
bullying: results from the 2007 school crime supplement to the
national crime victimization survey. Retrieved from
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ PDFS/ED519449.pdf
• Gleason, K. (2011). How teachers deal with bullying: best practices for
identifying and dealing with bullying behaviors among high school
students. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED518580.pdf
• Hanson, T, Guckenburg, S, Devoe, J, & Petrosino, A. (2010). What characteristics
of bullying, bullying victims, and schools are associated with increased
reporting of bullying to school officials?. Retrieved from http://eric
.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=keywor
&pageSze=10&ERICExtSearch_SerchValue_0=bullying&eric_displaySt
rtCoun=1&ERICExtSearch_SarchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetai
s&objctId=0900019b0428390&accno=ED511593&_nfls=false