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'Dealing with Bullying' DVD resource

Summary: Root causes & potential solutions to bullying dilemmas.

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Publishers description:

Why does bullying happen? What are the various forms it can take? How should a bullying victim react to intimidation and physical aggression, or -  ideally - avoid becoming a victim in the first place? This video in Viewtech Educational Media's 'Combating Conflict with Character' series addresses those questions as it looks at the root causes and potential solutions to bullying dilemmas.

Studying the verbal, emotional, and social aspects of bullying and cyberbullying as well as physical harassment and attacks, the programme also distinguishes between bullying that is typically male and typically female - revealing the wide range of results that all forms can have, from hurt feelings to academic problems to murder and suicide.

Dramatisations and expert commentary highlight specific strategies to combat this disturbing challenge to education and the well-being of young people.

For more information and to order, visit Viewtech Educational Media

  • Subject:
    Bullying
  • Levels:
    Secondary Key Stage 3 & 4
  • Type:
    Professional publication
  • Suggested use:
    Lesson plans, Guidance documents
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1 reviews

Heather (HOD PSHE) 20 Jun 2012 05:33 Report comment

This resource is one of a five part series dealing with bullying, and related areas such as anger, prejudice and peer pressure. It does not rely on the other 4 parts, and can be used effectively if you are focusing on bullying/cyber bullying.

This pack includes a brief teachers guide that sets out the Learning Outcomes, explains technical vocabulary used and has a plenary quiz. It gives some suggestions of questions to ask before and after the whole DVD is watched.

The DVD, which has an overall run time of 32 minutes, is split into 5 topics – what is bullying, dealing with indirect and direct, dangerous and cyber bullying, how to cope and change behaviour, looking at the roles of the bully and the bystander.

These are big topics to cover in short clips and the resource does leave it to you to build your lessons around what the DVD provides. This is not a DVD to play all at once, as the learning points of each clip have to be absorbed and applied, and the work of planning for that is down to the teacher. The topics covered can be quite sensitive for some pupils and the DVD needs to be shown with that in mind. One clip embedded in a lesson plan would take at least a 30 minute lesson, and the bigger topics such as coping with being bullied and changing behaviour deserve an hour lesson to do the subject justice. They do suggest doing role plays, but there are ‘no ready to use’ situations, which would have cut down on planning time.

The clips are a good mixture of dialogue and drama – a visual representation of a possible situation, which is then discussed by both teenagers and adults in the field of conflict resolution.

I hadn’t expected the presenters to have American accents – but in this instance that is not off putting, as the subject material and the way it is handled is so relevant and interesting. It does mean that when they give advice it is very generic – no mention of CEOP or Childline as I presume that the resource is not just for the British market. This also means that there is no mapping to PSHE or SMCS outcomes.

What is great is to have all these topics on one DVD – no hunting round various sites looking for good material.

Would I buy it? Yes, it would make a valuable contribution to PSHE provision and it certainly conveys relevant and important information about keeping yourself , and your friends.

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