CyberbullyingAs a future educator you must be aware of all aspects of cyberbullying and understand your responsibility to keep your students safe in all contexts while in your care. This specifically relates to Standard Four from the National Professional Standards for Teachers.
Standard 4: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments 4.1 Identify strategies that address the diverse needs of learners through learner- centred approaches that are supported by selection and sequencing of available digital resources and tools. 4.2 Demonstrate the capacity to manage student access to digital resources and tools to support student engagement and learning. 4.3 Demonstrate knowledge of practical approaches for encouraging responsible social interactions and make use of digital resources and tools, as appropriate to the needs, backgrounds and interests of students, when managing challenging behaviours. 4.4 Demonstrate understanding of risks to students’ well-being and safety while using digital resources and tools. Demonstrate understanding of practices and tools to mitigate these risks. 4.5 Demonstrate understanding of safe, legal, and ethical use of digital resources and tools, including cyber safety practices, respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources. |
There are many videos like this that can be used in an educational setting to stimulate discussion about this disturbing trend. Bullying is not new but the ways that it can be promulgated and escalated in the digital age is cause for huge concern.
Become informed and proactive in your awareness of cyberbullying and be proactive in creating a safe environment in your future classrooms. |
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Standing up, not standing byA Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators
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The National Safe Schools NetworkThe Australian NSSF consists of a set of nationally agreed principles for safe and supportive school environments and includes appropriate responses that schools can adopt to address the issues of bullying, harassment, violence, and child abuse and neglect.
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National Centre Against BullyingThe National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB) is a peak body working to advise and inform the Australian community on the issue of childhood bullying and the creation of safe schools and communities, including the issue of cybersafety.
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