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So, I came across an article about bullying in early childhood from the NAEYC’s website. The article was written by Dr. Kyle Snow and it briefly discussed some key points about bullying which included the definition of bullying, who it involves and affects directly as well as indirectly, what type of settings/environment it may occur in, different types of bullying etc. For starters, bullying has three elements: it is an aggressive act and intended to do harm; these acts are repeated over time; and, they occur within the context of power imbalance (Snow 2014). Bullying usually and mainly involves one child who attempts to make another child feel inferior to the bully’s power, authority, and superiority. However, friends of the victim …show more content…
The article also mentioned that for example, most bullies strike on their victims in environments such as the line for getting a drink at the water fountain of the classroom. It also provided the reader with statistics such as, “20.4% of children ages 2-5 had experienced physical bullying in their lifetime and 14.6% had been teased (verbally bullied)” (Snow 2014). And lastly, among other highlights, another key point the article mentioned discussed how boys are more known to assert their physical roughness when bullying as opposed to girls and it touched on the fact that most bullies stem from being victims at once in their life and how victims have the potential to become bullies later on in life, if not treated correctly. Multiple causes for bullying in the early childhood classroom today could involve: not having any teacher’s aides, assistants, or paraprofessionals being present in the classroom; the teacher could be multi-tasking heavily throughout the day; not having a school psychologist or therapist on hand or even constant communication from the administrators; biased teachers, etc. I find that majority of the time, bullying springs up on an educator randomly. Being a teacher is not an easy job and …show more content…
However, how it is handled depends on a lot such as the location of the school and its district, the principal(s), the teacher(s), the parent(s), the victim, the bully(ies), etc. Children pick on and torment others over anything such as their hair or lack of, their weight or lack of, “teacher’s pet,” or even certain jobs the teacher may assign students during the week in the ECE classroom. For example, three boys in my school were involved in name calling incidents at school in their third grade classroom. One boy was getting teased by the other two about his weight. The situation then spilled over into aftercare and it flares up slightly every once in a while since it began about a few months ago. Even in my being an aftercare teacher, I still am a teacher and in regards to updating my portfolio, I came up with 10 classroom rules and 3 consequences. I would implement those three consequences into a bullying situation and if the problem continues, I would take more serious action such as calling home, scheduling a parent-teacher conference, writing up a behavioral referral, or even talking with the principal. I would use sound judgment, facts, written documentation, and all the proof accessible to me. Kids can be extremely harsh to one another and no one deserves
So, I came across an article about bullying in early childhood from the NAEYC’s website. The article was written by Dr. Kyle Snow and it briefly discussed some key points about bullying which included the definition of bullying, who it involves and affects directly as well as indirectly, what type of settings/environment it may occur in, different types of bullying etc. For starters, bullying has three elements: it is an aggressive act and intended to do harm; these acts are repeated over time; and, they occur within the context of power imbalance (Snow 2014). Bullying usually and mainly involves one child who attempts to make another child feel inferior to the bully’s power, authority, and superiority. However, friends of the victim …show more content…
The article also mentioned that for example, most bullies strike on their victims in environments such as the line for getting a drink at the water fountain of the classroom. It also provided the reader with statistics such as, “20.4% of children ages 2-5 had experienced physical bullying in their lifetime and 14.6% had been teased (verbally bullied)” (Snow 2014). And lastly, among other highlights, another key point the article mentioned discussed how boys are more known to assert their physical roughness when bullying as opposed to girls and it touched on the fact that most bullies stem from being victims at once in their life and how victims have the potential to become bullies later on in life, if not treated correctly. Multiple causes for bullying in the early childhood classroom today could involve: not having any teacher’s aides, assistants, or paraprofessionals being present in the classroom; the teacher could be multi-tasking heavily throughout the day; not having a school psychologist or therapist on hand or even constant communication from the administrators; biased teachers, etc. I find that majority of the time, bullying springs up on an educator randomly. Being a teacher is not an easy job and …show more content…
However, how it is handled depends on a lot such as the location of the school and its district, the principal(s), the teacher(s), the parent(s), the victim, the bully(ies), etc. Children pick on and torment others over anything such as their hair or lack of, their weight or lack of, “teacher’s pet,” or even certain jobs the teacher may assign students during the week in the ECE classroom. For example, three boys in my school were involved in name calling incidents at school in their third grade classroom. One boy was getting teased by the other two about his weight. The situation then spilled over into aftercare and it flares up slightly every once in a while since it began about a few months ago. Even in my being an aftercare teacher, I still am a teacher and in regards to updating my portfolio, I came up with 10 classroom rules and 3 consequences. I would implement those three consequences into a bullying situation and if the problem continues, I would take more serious action such as calling home, scheduling a parent-teacher conference, writing up a behavioral referral, or even talking with the principal. I would use sound judgment, facts, written documentation, and all the proof accessible to me. Kids can be extremely harsh to one another and no one deserves