From the survey responses completed by teachers at your school, digital citizenship is not taught by classroom teachers. Although guidance lessons are offered on this topic, you will receive strategies and tools to implement digital citizenship lessons in your classrooms. This professional development session will explore case studies of cyberbullied students and their effects on them and their classes. We will also explore the Beaufort County School District policies about cyberbullying and your responsibilities as a teacher when confronted with this problem. At the end of the session, teachers will see a model cyberbully lesson and receive material and links to lessons to share with their students. Our goal will be to give you real-life examples of cyberbullying, knowledge of the policies when confronting cyberbullying, and tools to create a safe online environment for your students. Cyberbullying stops here!

a.       Participants will Analyze and define what is cyberbullying and its effects.

 

b.      Learn about the school district policies about cyberbullying and your responsibilities as a teacher.

 

c.       View a model cyberbullying lesson, and be given links for lessons for a grades 1-2, 3-5, Middle school, High school

 

a.       Cyberbullying case studies

b.      Cyberbullying effects on students

2.       School district policies – State Law

a.       Teacher responsibilities

b.      Who do I call? Next steps

3.       Model Cyberbullying lesion

a.       Links to grade specific resources

4.       Break our groups to explore links provided and how they could be implemented into a Cyberbullying lesson.

a.       Padlet link to share notes from break out group sessions

5.       Break our session results

a.       Common thoughts – share out of implementation strategies.

b.      Email and hand out of links from the session