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Teaching Strategies on Dealing With Bullies

We hear on the news today, too many stories about bullying in our classrooms and playgrounds. Often the bullying results in the victim taking their own life or that of others. Teacher training now involves the developing of teaching strategies to deal with the bullying situation. How can we as educators help children when they are faced with a bully problem?

Many teaching strategies involve not just discussing what children can do in these situations, but also how to physically deal with them. Learning the skills in martial arts is a strategy that you may wish to teach in the gym or recommend to students to do out of school hours. Teaching defense is a strategy that works because it empowers the child and they then do not become the victim. As we know, most bullies only attract those whom they see as being inferior or weaker than themselves. An empowered person is therefore not a likely target to be victimized by cowardly bullies.

Hand-in-hand are some verbal strategies that can work along with the martial arts skills. When threatened by a bully you can:

attempt to make friends with them, as it is difficult to be mean to someone who is your friend,
make a joke out of the situation so that it becomes funny instead of scary,
walking away from the bully is always a good idea and is probably one of the easiest and most successful approaches,
pretend to agree with the bully and accept the insults,
do not fight unless forced into it, a winner is the one who walks away from a confrontation,
if you have the skills of martial arts you can stand up to the bully and fight back as a last resort,
scream and yell at the bully and frighten him/her away. This can also attract attention of passer-bys,
try reasoning with the bully and use your brain power.

These teaching strategies will help protect your students should a bullying situation arise and involve them before an even bigger tragedy occurs.

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