Real Life Bully Prevention for Real Kids

50 Ways to Help Elementary and Middle School Students

Catherine DePino - Foreword by Lori Evans

Many states currently mandate character education, and school districts across the country need anti-bullying education programs to counter the rising tide of aggression and relational aggression that is the norm among many students. In fact, many school districts now require teachers to include lessons on bully prevention in their curriculum.

Real Life Bully Prevention For Real Kids addresses this pervasive problem by offering students hands-on activities. Teachers will want to use this book in their classrooms with their students as part of the school’s anti-bullying curriculum. As an added bonus, the activities reinforce English/language arts, social studies, and health education curricular goals. Counselors, therapists, and school administrators can also use the activities in large and small group instruction. Additionally, leaders of after-school programs and youth leadership programs, such as scouting, dramatics classes, and religious education classes, will find the activities helpful in addressing their bully prevention programs. Each activity contains a description, goals for children, and helpful hints for adults to guide their youngsters through the program.

R&L Education

Pages: 150 •

978-1-57886-967-1 • eBook • January 2009 • $42.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Education / Violence & Harassment, Education / Parent Participation, Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Education / Student Life & Student Affairs

Real Life Bully Prevention for Real Kids

50 Ways to Help Elementary and Middle School Students

eBook

Summary

Many states currently mandate character education, and school districts across the country need anti-bullying education programs to counter the rising tide of aggression and relational aggression that is the norm among many students. In fact, many school districts now require teachers to include lessons on bully prevention in their curriculum.

Real Life Bully Prevention For Real Kids addresses this pervasive problem by offering students hands-on activities. Teachers will want to use this book in their classrooms with their students as part of the school’s anti-bullying curriculum. As an added bonus, the activities reinforce English/language arts, social studies, and health education curricular goals. Counselors, therapists, and school administrators can also use the activities in large and small group instruction. Additionally, leaders of after-school programs and youth leadership programs, such as scouting, dramatics classes, and religious education classes, will find the activities helpful in addressing their bully prevention programs. Each activity contains a description, goals for children, and helpful hints for adults to guide their youngsters through the program.

Details

R&L Education

Pages: 150 •

978-1-57886-967-1 • eBook • January 2009 • $42.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Education / Violence & Harassment, Education / Parent Participation, Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Education / Student Life & Student Affairs

Author

Dr. Catherine DePino is the author of four books about bullying. Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet: How to Deal with Bullies, a chapter book published by APA, has been translated into different languages and is widely used in bully prevention programs. Her parenting book, Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids Cope, gives parents practical tools to help children overcome bullying. She also wrote Real Life Bully Prevention for Real Kids, a teacher resource book. Additionally, Catherine wrote many grammar/writing books for teachers to use in their classrooms. Catherine holds a doctorate from Temple University and has served as an English teacher and department head in the Philadelphia School District and as a student teaching supervisor for Temple University. View her website and contact her at www.catherinedepino.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Level 1
Brainstorm Anti-Bullying Tips
Write a Magazine Article about Stopping Bullying Before It Starts
Write an Anti-Bullying Public Service Announcement
Know When to Ask for Help
What to Do the First Time a Bully Strikes
Say What You Mean with Body Language and Words
Think of Ten Ways to Show Kindness to Others
Write a Speak-Out Message about How to Stop Bullying
Design a Greeting Card with a Positive Message
Learn to React in a Flash
Create a Poster Called "You Need to Tell When ... "
What Can You Do If Everyone Else Is Bullying Someone?
List Ten Adjectives Describing How a Bullying Victim Feels
Keep a Positive Attitude until the Bullying Stops
Hold a Contest to Choose the Best Bully Prevention Poster
Level 2
Be a Caring Bystander
Produce a Play or Puppet Show about Bullying
Deal with Family Bullying
Write an Imaginary Diary about a Bully
Can People Who Are Different Get Along?
Interview a Relative about a Bullying Experience
Choose a Fiction Book about Bullying
Write an Advice Column LEtter about a Bullying Problem
Imagine You're a News Team Reporting a Bullying Episode
What If a Bully Wants Something You Have?
What If Someone Bullies Someone Who's Not a Close Friend?
How Can Having Friends Help with Bullying?
Be a Good Listener to a Person Being Bullied
How Can Body Language Help or Hurt a Bullying Situation?
Act Out Humorous Things to Say If a Bully Teases You
Write an Anti-Bullying Song or Rap
Level 3
Design a Handbill to Teach about Bullying
Plan Panel Discussions about Bullying
Debate What It Means to Join a Clique or Crowd
Write an Acrostic Poem about Bullying
Make Up a Wish List for a Better World
Help a Younger Child with a Bullying Problem
Write the Bully an Imaginary Letter
Sell a Children's Book about Bullying
Peer Counsel a Bully
Pretend You're the Mayor
Write a Child's Picture Book about Bully Prevention
Plaster a Wall with a Bully-Busting Display
Imagine You Are a Teacher Who Wants to Stop a Bullying Problem
Think of Things to Say to a Bully
Teach a Lesson on Bully Prevention to a Younger Class
Exchange Ideas to Stop Bullying Outside of School
Pull the Mask from Invisible Bullies
Compile a Vocabulary List of Bullying Terms
Stop Cyber-Bullying

Reviews

This informative, up-to-date and practical guide on the subject of bullying is a valuable source for understanding and dealing with the problem. Parents, teachers, concerned citizens, and even bystanders will find this book enlightening and helpful.....
— Fran Pelham, Professor of Communications at Holy Family University

This book is clearly written by someone with plenty of teaching and writing experience. Do I ever wish my grade school teachers had this book to draw upon decades ago. Real Life Bully Prevention for Real Kids is useful, well-crafted, and much-needed....
— Sean Toner, chairman of the Philadelphia Writers Conference Free Forums at Drexel University

The fifty activities are creative and offer variety apart from the usual assignments.....
— VOYA

DePino's creative approach, packed with examples, leads you with ways students can deal with bullying. She confronts the problem while fostering skills, such as writing, presentations, and marketing.....
— Miriam S. Shnycer, author of The Shadows of Death