Teasing, Bullying, and Being Left Out

What's In This Kit?

This Out of the Box training kit provides early childhood professionals with important information about how to help children learn to more effectively handle teasing, bullying, and being left out. This training program contains the following components:

• Expected training outcomes and learning objectives
• Training research, models, benchmarks
• Preparation and implementation steps
• Handouts
• The article “Teasing, Bullying, and Being Left Out: Are They an Inevitable Part of Childhood?” by Meg Thomas
• References and resources
• Training Certificate for Learner �" Certificate of Attendance and Participation

Who's the Target Audience?
The target audiences for this training kit are beginning, intermediate, and advanced Learners who are working with young children (2 through 8 years).

Teacher Skill Level

beginning intermediate advanced

Children's Age Level

infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preparation time for this kit is estimated at 1.5 hours. Implementation and actual training time is 3.0 hours, which includes 1.5 hours of Face-to-Face Training and 1.5 hours of Independent Study and an Applied Activity Project.

Training Outcomes:

By the end of this training, Learners will be able to:

• identify pre-bullying and bullying behaviors in children.
• teach children how to stand up for themselves.
• introduce children to activities that allow them to talk about teasing and bullying.
• recognize and call attention to prosocial behaviors.
• examine and reflect on their own behavior to ensure that they are not discouraging children’s behavior they want to encourage.
• handle bullying behaviors by fostering children’s emotional intelligence and developing an awareness to interact in positive ways.

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