Last time, my students discussed memories from school, and the subject of bullying came up across the board.
For the next class, I prepared a question sheet about bullying and the students worked on answering the questions to the best of their ability in small groups of mixed nationalities. The questions were:
- Why do some children become bullies?
- Why are some children victims of bullying?
- What should you do if you see bullying?
- What are the consequences of bullying for the victims? For the bullies?
For homework each group was given ONE of the questions to research on the web. They were told to find expert opinion on the issues by consulting reputable websites (and we discussed how to tell websites of value by looking on the web together as a class).
The students had to find answers to the question their group was assigned and report back to the class. They also had to compare their original thinking with the experts’ opinion.
I’ll report on the actual discussion next time.
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