What are the different types of bullying?

Assignment #2: Paper and Presentation on Bullying and Bullying students with a disability (30 Points)

Part One: Write a five to eight-page paper that addresses the topic of bullying students in general and bullying students with disabilities specifically.  Use research evidence from books, articles and professional web sites and current videos to support your arguments and conclusions.

Part Two: Additionally, prepare a professional presentation to be administered virtually to either the faculty at your school or for the parent’s night at your school that addresses bullying, prevention, and solutions. This can be a power point, a prezi a you-tube presentation, whatever creative endeavor you choose to present. Please include websites and references the faculty and/or parents can refer to for further information.  This assignment must be submitted to the instructor in week seven. Please include a cover page with your paper. This assignment is worth 30 points and will be graded according to the grade’s distribution below and the rubric in Attachment #3.

Topic: Broadly speaking, bullying is an intentional and unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves some kind of a real or perceived imbalance of power. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both children who are bullied and who bully others may have serious lasting problems. Children with special needs may be at higher risk of being bullied. Bullying can include making fun of students because of their disability or their appearance. Although only ten US studies have been conducted on the connection between bullying and developmental disabilities, all of these studies found that children with disabilities were two to three times more likely to be bullied than their nondisabled peers. Disabilities: Insights from Across Fields and Around the World; Marshall, Kendall, Banks & Gover (Eds.), 2009.

Please refer to the following questions about bullying to aid in your research process to support your answers and claims:

RESEARCH PAPER (30 POINTS)

1. What are the different types of bullying?
2. What is the difference bullying and harassment?
3. Why is bullying based on a student’s disability considered harassment. Refer to the Office of Civil Rights and the Department of Justice; both departments have stated that bullying may be considered harassment when it is based on a student’s race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or religion.
4. In 2014 The office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) clarified that when a the bullying of a student with a disability results in the student not receiving meaningful educational benefits under IDEA, the school must remedy the problem, regardless of whether the bullying was based on the student’s disability View: 2014 Dear Colleague Letter: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-bullying-201410.pdf
5. Read the online blog: Keeping Students with Disabilities Safe from Bullying: https://blog.ed.gov/2013/08/keeping-students-with-disabilities-safe-from-bullying/?

How can you as a teacher help parents and students become advocates and self-advocates to prevent or address bullying? https://www.pacer.org/publications/bullypdf/BP-17.pdf

How should teachers and parents talk to youth with disabilities about bullying? https://www.pacer.org/publications/bullypdf/BP-2.pdf

What are the characteristics of bullies?

6. What are the characteristics of victims?
7. What are the causes and risk factors of bullying?
8. What are the symptoms and signs that your student is being bullied?
9. What are the long-term effects of bullying?
10. What should victims of bullying and their teachers do to stop bullying? (3 points) Using the IEP to address bullying https://www.pacer.org/publications/bullypdf/BP-4.pdf
11. What are the treatment options for victims of bullying?
12. What should parents do if they think their child is bullying others?
13. What are treatment options for people who bully others?
14. What can/should people do if they see someone being bullied?
15. What measures can be implemented to prevent bullying at school? How does your school address the problem of bullying?
16. Where can teachers find more information about bullying?
17. https://pacerteensagainstbullying.org/
18. https://pacerkidsagainstbullying.org/
19. https://www.pacer.org/bullying/stories/?fltr=disability