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Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders (AVB)
Bullying Topics
How to Support AVB
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Rough Play or Bullying?
- Positive and neutral facial expressions or negative expressions
- Alternate roles or unilateral roles
- Students tend to stay together or separate ways
What can we do as a school or an individual?
- Survey students about bullying
- Inform parents with information
- Schoolwide prevention program that provides skills,
- Constant and immediate consequences for bullying
- INCREASE adult supervision at times when victims are especially vulnerable
- Talk about bullying throughout the year
- Celebrate differences
- Positive school climate – high standards for both teacher and student behavior
- Awareness and involvement on the part of adults, with regard to bully-victim problems
- Listen respectfully to bullying concerns
- Avoid sex-role stereotyping
- Intervene immediately: stop the bullying behavior as soon as you see it or become aware of it.
- Talk to the bully and victim SEPARATELY
- Peer mediation may not be the place for bullying cases
- Inform the administrators/counselors
- Help to find a “friend” for the victim or a group that is safe during group work.
- Monitor behavior of the bully and safety of the victim
- Teach social skills
- Model positive, respectful, and supportive behavior by adults
- Watch your body language
- NEVER BULLY THE BULLY (could be from a violent home)
- Keep calm
- Reinforce positive behavior
- Try critical questioning – “What just happened” – just facts – not why
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