Wednesday, September 19, 2012
As a teacher the only thing you can do is educate the students about how dangerous cyber bullying can be, sighting examples like Columbine which young students could easily be too young to remember. Other than explaining to them that it is wrong it would be important to let them know how to deal with it. But this message coming from a teacher and reaching out to a group will not be felt as heavily as if it came from the parents. As a teacher in most cases we will not have the right to punish the student because it will not be happing on our watch. If a parent has this discussion with a child and also has the ability to follow through with a consequence should the child not listen, that system will work much more successfully than an empty message with not chance of repercussion from a teacher.
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It will still be heard and still a way of preventing it. As long as the teacher addresses it and tries to prevent the issue, I think that is our main responsibility. You are right in saying that the teachers can only go so far with it, but it is still a responsibility for the teacher and school to AT LEAST address it in a prevention type way
ReplyDeleteI do agree that the parent may have a bigger impact on the student. but regardless not only can the teacher educate the dangers of cyberbullying but if they see it happening in there classroom or even outside of there classroom, as a teacher, it is there responsibility to tell someone. whether it be a parent or principal or police officer.
ReplyDeleteMost students probably will not even admit that someone is cyber bullying them. The teacher cannot always point out the students who are taking harm from this. Even if they educate there students this is not going to make them stop. Some may even laugh because they do not think it really happens. With technology today this can even be faked to simply get another student in trouble. With all of it done online it is hard to prove and prevent. So only limited action can be done but yes it should be attempted to be monitored.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that some students wont come out and say that they are being bullied is more of a reason for teachers to keep an eye out, and be educated on how to identify when cyber bullying is taking place. This type of training is important to keep up on, as technology changes, so schools have to make sure that their faculty are keeping up to date with this type of training.
DeleteI understand that a teacher should address this and take action if it spills over into the classroom but thinking that this is only going to happen between members of the same classroom is very small minded. Teaching a student that they can solve life's problems simply by telling the teacher what is going on is not a good idea. What happens when this student gets older and has a problem with people that are in different countries that they will never meet. If a teacher needs to be responsible for educating the student in any way in these regards it is how to deal and cope with the fact that it has happened to them.
ReplyDeleteI was not thinking that it would only be a problem within the same classroom. I use the term classroom loosely just because that is where the teacher will be doing his/her teaching. it could affect a student in their classroom with any other student or person anywhere I wasn't pertaining to it just happening between one or two students within the same teachers class. In saying that, It is still a prevention type address that the educators need to put out there to the classrooms and the SCHOOL as a whole. we cannot just wait for something to happen and then address it because then parents will come to the school and blame them for not addressing a prevention lesson or lesson on what cyberbullying is or does. You know that is what would happen. When tragedies with students happen it is almost always directly related to something with the school, in the school or by the school.
DeleteThere are so many different issues a student can endure especially in their teen years. We cannot sit here as teachers and instantly see that a student seems depressed or not interacting and assume they are being bullied and approach them. It is the students choice to reveal their situation which limits when and if a teacher can take action. Their primary objective is to educate.
ReplyDeleteSometimes students do not openly reveal that they are being cyber-bullied. Keith and Martin (2005) reveal that there are several ways to help parents and teachers identify when a teen is being cyber-bullied. These include: “spending a lot of time on the computer, having trouble sleeping or having nightmares, feeling depressed or crying without reason, [showing] mood swings, feeling unwell, becoming anti-social and falling behind in homework” p. 226 (Keith & Martin, 2005).