MindMatters Booklets

SchoolMatters | Educating for Life | Enhancing Resilience 1 | Enhancing Resilience 2 | A Whole School Approach to Dealing with Bullying and Harassment | Understanding Mental Illnesses | Loss and Grief | CommunityMatters

A Whole School Approach to Dealing with Bullying and Harassment

This booklet guides schools in their attempts to take a whole school approach to dealing with bullying and harassment. A comprehensive check list to guide policy and practice is included. Three curriculum units, targeted at junior secondary school students, are provided for use in the Health, English and Drama class. The Health unit is also suitable for Personal Development and Pastoral Care classes. It is anticipated that schools would choose one of the units for use with a particular class. These papers are available as PDF files. To view them, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4.0+) which is available for free download at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Obtain Dealing with Bullying Introduction PDF. MindMatters finalised the distribution of the resource kit to all secondary schools in Australia on 9 August 2002. The CommunityMatters booklet was also forwarded to the principal of all secondary schools in November 2001. If you would like to order additional resources, please email sales@curriculum.edu.au or complete the order form .

Facing facts: a whole school approach to dealing with bullying and harassment for use in the Health class

Students define and give examples of different types of bullying and harassment, and consider the effects of bullying on victims, perpetrators and onlookers. They identify common barriers to seeking help or taking protective action. They are equipped to research bullying in their own school and use interactive exercises to develop help-seeking and assertiveness.

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Giving voice: a whole school approach to dealing with bullying and harassment for use in the English class

Students explore the language of bullying, and look at forms of bullying perpetuated at different levels of society. They use group work and participatory exercises to read, write and discuss poetry, stories and newspaper items, exploring the effects of bullying and possibilities for protective action.

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Defining moments: a whole school approach to dealing with bullying and harassment for use in the Drama class

Students explore the body language of status and power, identify and enact common human responses to messages of welcome or rejection. They also use a range of dramatic devices to depict and examine the stories and experiences of oppression, and prepare a performance piece around the theme of bullying.

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