Cyberbullying In Australian Schools

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Cyberbullying is a constantly growing issue in Australian Schools which can place a big impact on a child. When students face the cyber world they are a much bigger target to predators, with very few rules and and consequences. Which makes cyberbullying a dangerous environment, compared to that of school yard physical bullying. Many researchers indicate that cyberbullying causes a child’s grades to decrease due to many different issues they can face, and this symposium will explore that.

Student Pressures
Students face many pressures when dealing with cyberbullying. They can be effected emotionally, physically and mentally. Evidence shows that an applied classroom setting can place many stresses on a student, effecting their performance at …show more content…

In the classroom teachers can have a big impact on forming many ideals and beliefs a student can grow to have. Teachers have authority, they monitor student behaviour, they set classroom rules and they put consequences in place for behaviour than can be deemed as inappropriate (Stauffer, Heath, Coyne, & Ferrin, 2012, p. 353). Many teachers are placed with a class for the school year, they even can have certain students for consecutive years. This encourages the teacher to gain a professional relationship with students. They learn certain attributes about different student’s and get to know their different personalities. This is very important as a teacher can normally be quick to detect if something is off with either a particular student or friendship group. WA school social worker supports this with her comment stating “Teachers usually have an inkling that something is off in the classroom they then can bring it to the Social Worker’s attention so the child can voice their issues in an encouraging and safe environment” (personal communication, 26/05/16). Many teachers however don’t know how to deal with cyberbullying situations and schools need to implement prevention programs to educate the teachers on how to deal with these certain situations (Hirschstein, Edstrom, Frey, Snell, & McKenzie, 2007; Payne, Gottfredson, 2006).Teachers can also help a cyberbullying student through assisting them with making their workload lighter or separating them from another student who might be troubling them. “I have seen certain circumstances, where teachers have come together to address an issue and that has resulted in a student to have less pressures in the classroom.” (personal communication, 26/05/16). Teacher’s play a big part not only in children’s education, but also in placing certain ideals in the classroom which can encourage most

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