Your Hoover Counseling Team2013-2014

• A-C & SABE Clavell, Teri (District Counselor)

• D – Ji & AOIT Maas, Theron

• Jo – M & AVID Munoz, Andrea

• N – Pi & AHHA Le, Trina (Head Counselor)

• Pj – Z & ALMA Pringle, Tawnya

• SDSU Interns Malia Green & Mark Braun

Cathia Sanchez & Laura Romo

Cyber-Bullying

Presented by

Hoover Counseling TeamNovember 2013

ASCA Standards for Students

• PS: A1.6 Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate behavior

• PS: A2.1 Recognize that everyone has rights and responsibilities

• PS: B1.3 Identify alternative solutions to a problem

• PS: C1.2 Learn about the relationship between rules, laws, safety, and the protection of rights of the individual

Objectives

• Knowledge:

• Students will know what cyber-bullying is and how to identify it

• Attitudes:

• Students will understand the negative effects and consequences of cyber-bullying

• Skills:

• Students will have the skills to handle cyber-bullying when it is happening to you or someone you know

Agenda

1. What is Cyber-Bullying?

2. Effects and Consequences of Cyber-Bullying

3. Example of Cyber-Bullying—What can be done?

4. Ways to Respond to Cyber-Bullying

5. Students analyze case scenarios in small groups

6. Students present action plans

7. Cyber-Bullying Prevention Flash Mob Video

What is Cyber-Bullying?

• Intentional mistreatment of others through computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices

• Includes sending mean, hurtful or threatening messages or images of another person

• Posting sensitive, private information for the purpose of hurting or embarrassing another

• Pretending to be someone else in order to make a person look bad

Effects and Consequences

• Destroys trust within communities, friendships, classrooms

• Creates a hostile environment

• Result in psychological and physical harm to others

• Can lead to violence

• Can result in criminal charges being filed

• Has ended with suicides and suicide attempts

News Story from September 2013

• http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/09/13/nr-pkg-ganim-sedwick-bullying-suicide.cnn.html

What methods of cyber-bullying were used?

What were some of the consequences?

What could have been done?

Effective Responses toCyber-Bullying

• Talk about it

• Ignore them

• Never retaliate

• Tell them to stop

• Laugh

• Save the evidence

• Block access to cyber-bullies

• Report it to the content provider

• Never pass along messages from cyber-bullies

• Call the police

Success Story

• Osseo Football:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6-xNEtgYFQ

Students Speak Out

• Make an anonymous phone, text or web tip about dangerous activity at your school or in the community.

• Call: (888) 580-8477

• Text 274637

• Visit : studentsspeakingout.org

Example Case Scenario

James is frustrated and saddened by the comments his school peers are making about his sexuality. Furthermore, it appears a group of male students are creating fake e-mail accounts and are sending love notes to other male students as if they came from James – who is mortified at the thought of what is happening.

What would you do if you were James?

What are ways that James can deal with the embarrassment?

What would be some incorrect or unacceptable ways that James might try to deal with this problem?

Cyber-BullyingCase Scenarios Group Work

1. Someone in your group reads the case study out loud

2. Discuss the situation as a group

3. Another person in your group records the group’s action plan using the questions provided

4. One person in your group agrees to share out to the entire class

Feel-Good Finale

• Flashmob: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhYyAa0VnyY