Sticks and Stones: The No-Bully Zone

3 credits/Audit
3 Graduate Credits for $385 or Audit for $199 - You Choose!
(all course materials included)

This course will help make your school/classroom a safer place for all students to learn. Explore the following areas: school-wide anti-bullying measures, problem solving dialogue, the role of the bystander, building staff-to-student connections, supporting and empowering the targets of bullies, and more. Discover new ways to reduce bullying regardless of what level/subject you teach.

Goals and Objectives: As a result of participation in this course, students will be able to:

1. Gain knowledge of situations and factors that cause bullying.
2. Understand how discipline and interventions can help in a bullying situation.
3. Explore guidelines for a school discipline system.
4. Investigate the important role of the peer bystander.
5. Examine a bullying prevention program.
6. Design ways of decreasing bullying in their classroom/school.
7. Understand important issues involved in cyber bullying and understand the negative impact bullying has on students.

What your colleagues are saying about this course:
"My favorite aspect of the course is that it is addressing a 'now' need in my class and school. I know I can go to Learner's Edge and pick a course that addresses the educational needs I have for this school year."