Wellesley College Bully Curriculum

The National Education Association and Wellesley College bully curriculums:

The work of Wellesley College, including extensive research references, puts excellent lessons and model activities into the age and development level of students as their behavioral patterns for dealing with classmates begin. What is very plain, from both the research and what educators have long observed, is that students seldom begin to bully or harass at the high school level. We know those patterns and behavioral choices were often present even as young as kindergarten or often preschool.

Quit It! A Teacher's Guide on Teasing and Bullying for use with students in Grades K-3 was written to address early intervention and to provide a proactive, gender-sensitive approach to addressing teasing and bullying. The guide uses group activities, integration into literature and age-appropriate writing lessons to provide the discussion with students about behavioral choices.

Bullyproof is geared for grades 4-6 and addresses lessons and activities for students who fall into the categories of bully, target or bystander. It also uses literature and writing as important integration pieces to the school curriculum so that these important lessons are not squeezed out of an already crowded school day.

Flirting Or Hurting?, the secondary curriculum on sexual harassment, is aimed at grades 6-9. It provides to students not only information on what sexual harassment is and what it is not but continues on the theme of better choices of behavior than bullying or teasing from the elementary pieces.

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