Bullying

Grade Level: K-2

This program highlights the reasons behind name-calling, the effect it has, and shows kids how to be assertive so they can stop others from calling them names. Strategies include: tell them how you feel, ask them to stop, ignore them or ask an adult for help.

This program gives youngsters the opportunity to consider and discuss strategies for coping with the effects of gossiping, taunting and bullying. What constitutes harassment? How does it make kids feel? What can they do to handle it? What should they do if they witness it? These are the questions that will be answered in this honest and highly effective program. With the encouragement of a school counselor, young teens share their own experiences coping with bullying, taunting and teasing. They view and react to dramatic vignettes that show realistic situations of harassment. Dr. Michael Furlong, professor at UC Santa Barbara, lends expert advice to students about what they can do to handle these difficult situations.

Grade Level: 3-5
Presenting two children’s first-person accounts of their success in learning how to deal with a bully, this program helps students understand how their behavior and attitudes affect how others treat them. Explains why bullies act the way they do and provides strategies for dealing with a bully.

Grade Level: 3-8. Kai is being physically bullied and intimidated by Kevin and Jose. Dana is tormenting and taunting Tara about her weight. Both of them are feeling humiliated, hurt, and powerless to stop it. Kai’s friend Dylan witnesses the bullying but remains silent about it. Friends encourage Kai to seek help from their club advisor, who then steps in. Tara’s mother helps her see that she is not to blame for the harassment, and if she gets more involved at school with things she enjoys, she will feel better about herself and not “buy into” what Dana is saying about her.

The complete 8 Program Series. Each Lesson Booster video presents real-life scenarios demonstrating the feelings that young students often experience, as well as present ways to cope with and handle these emotions. Students will learn the importance of respect, self-esteem, anger control, and problem-solving within a school setting. These programs are created for both grades K-3 and 4-7 as a supplement to any guidance curriculum. Each program includes a DVD and a CD-ROM with a lesson plan for implementing the content.

Grade Level: 3-5. This award-winning video features the "No More Teasing Team" who use realistic bullying situations to show kids how to change their own behavior to lessen the impact of teasing and bullying. Kids reinforce the key skills they are learning while having fun playing Dr. PlayWell's "Don't Pick on Me" game. They answer questions about bullying that help them rid their "school" of bullies. Copyright 1994.

Bullying expert, Detective Bill E. Finder shows young elementary students how they can become “Junior Bullying Detectives.” Using his old case files, Detective Bill helps viewers identify various types of bullying, appreciate how the targets of bullying feel, and understand what kids really think about bullies. This lively program encourages kids to consider the consequences of their own behavior, understand the behavior of others, and feel comfortable turning to adults for help when they need to. After viewing this program students will: recognize that bullies are not alike; feel comfortable turning to adults for help; understand that the target’s feelings, rather than the bully’s intent, make something a bullying behavior.

Grade Level: Grade 5-9. What is it about bullying behavior that is so powerful it silences the people who witness it? This program, designed to help students and staff create a school climate that stops bullying behavior, will help answer these questions. After viewing this program students will better understand: why bullying should not be tolerated by those who witness it; the reasons students often stay silent; strategies to prevent bullying; the power of the group in combating bullying; and how adults and students can work together. Awards Certificate for Creative Excellence, International Film and Video Festival.

Grade Level: K-3

From her command post at “Bully Control Center,” Major Hassle uses realistic mini-dramas to show youngsters the dos and don'ts for dealing with bullies safely.

Grade Level: K-2. Help youngsters understand how teasing affects other people’s feelings. Using lively music, a spaceman narrator, and a robot who speaks in rhyme, this video makes it clear that teasing isn’t fun for anyone. The program emphasizes that no one likes to be teased nor do they like a teaser. Students are shown that they can make amends for teasing by doing something nice for the person they have teased. True-to-life vignettes illustrate how teasing not only hurts victims’ feelings but can leave teasers feeling bad, too. Jenny thinks teasing is a big joke, until she finds that she has lost all her friends. “If you’re sorry that you teased them, find a way to please them,” Roger advises. Two additional scenarios show viewers how to avoid being teased.

Grade Level: 3-5.

Starting from the premise that you can’t tell if someone is a bully just by looking at them, What’s a Bully? makes clear to viewers that bullies come in all shapes, sizes and genders. And more importantly, all bullies don’t act the same way. Some bullies attack with their fists, some use words, some spread rumors and gossip, and today others do their damage online. And, the program points out, more often than not the kids who engage in these behaviors usually don’t think of themselves as bullies; they certainly don’t consider about how their words and actions may affect their targets.

Using situations that middle-elementary students will readily recognize, the program dramatizes different examples of bullying behavior: physical bullying, teasing with putdowns and taunts, spreading rumors, and harassing with threats and insults over the Internet. The program concludes by urging viewers to examine and think about their own behavior. The best way to see if what you do could be considered bullying, the program advises, is to ask yourself, “How would I like it if someone did this to me?”

Grade Level: K-2. Help kids learn the difference between being someone who understands when it is necessary to report a situation that a youngster can't handle alone.

Show even the youngest children that it is possible to stand up for themselves and others when they see bullying happen. This program uses three age-appropriate vignettes to demonstrate precisely what youngsters can do when they see bullying and be able to say ‘It’s NOT OKAY with me!“

Grade: 3-5. While some bystanders laugh and encourage the bully because they fear being the next target, others want to help the victim but feel helpless to do anything. This program shows kids that when it comes to bullying, bystanders can make a difference.