Supporting a Student
Supporting a student who is being cyberbullied requires empathy, reassurance, and practical help. This section provides guidance on how to listen, respond, document online harm, and connect students with trusted adults and appropriate support.
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Teacher’s Guide: Navigating Cyberbullying: Support Students Effectively
Types of Support to Provide
- For students experiencing cyberbullying: Colorful puzzle pieces surrounding different support strategies, representing different types of support that can work together.
- Empathy Development: Hands sharing hearts, representing empathy care, and positive peer relationships.
- Active Engagement: Students raising their arms and smiling, representing active participation and engagement.
- Clear Expectations: Thumbs-up and thumbs-down symbols with a checkmark, representing clear expectations for appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
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For Bystanders
Example: An example label with an arrow pointing toward suggested classroom actions.
Mediation Strategies in the Classroom – Facilitate a Structured Restorative Dialogue
- Establish Safe Conditions: An open hand with a checkmark and flag, representing creating safe conditions before beginning a restorative discussion.
- Share Perspectives: Two people talking with a light bulb between them, representing sharing ideas and understanding each other.
- Build Accountability & Repair: Two hands shaking with connected lines above them in a heart, representing accountability, repairing harm, and rebuilding relationships.
- Facilitate a Structured Restorative Dialogue: Arrows connecting the three images, representing the progression from establishing safety to share perspectives and repairing relationships.