Bullying prevention programs target the bully as well as those being harassed. If a person recognizes that his behavior is threatening and sees that others are conscious of it, he may stop it.
I think this article gave really good tips on how to prevent bullying. This is a short article but it has a lot of valuable information.
The article discusses how we perceive bullying as something that happens when children are in middle school and beyond. However, bullying occurs at ages 4 and 5.
This is something we definitely have to be on the lookout for.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5019257_bullying-prevention-schools.html
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I think it is important as teachers to take children seriously when they come to you with a concern of how someone is treating them. We need to make sure we address the problem and make the child feel safe. This might mean taking time from instruction, but the safety of the students is important. A child who is being bullied and doesn’t feel safe will not be able to perform to their highest potential in the classroom. We must never “brush it off” as this article stated.
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