This document discusses strategies for designing an environment that prevents bullying and promotes learning. It provides 10 warning signs of potentially violent behavior and 10 things teachers and students can do to address bullying. These include learning about bullying, having zero tolerance for name-calling, knowing warning signs, teaching conflict resolution, and students reporting suspicious behavior. The document also lists 20 instructional strategies to engage learners, such as graphic organizers, cooperative learning, role playing and technology. It emphasizes that relationships are key to learning and ending with quotes about making the classroom interactive and brain-compatible.

1. Topic #8: Build it
and they will learn
How will you design an environment so
that learning takes place?
Let’s Review

2. Design an anti-bullying
environment
What can you do?
What can your students do?

4. Who or What is to Blame?
Go to
todaysmeet.com/Bullying
And join the conversation

5. 10 Warning Signs:
1. Lack of Interest in School. Self isolation from
family and/or friends.
2. Seeing self as always the victim.
3. Persistent disregard for rules.
4. Cruelty to pets or other animals.
5. Artwork or writing that is bleak, violent or that
depicts isolation or anger.
6. Talking constantly about weapons or violence.
Talk about bringing weapons to school. Bringing a
weapon to school.
7. Obsession with violent games/television
8. Depression or mood swings. Misplaced or
unwarranted jealousy.
9. History of bullying.
10. Involvement/interest in gangs.

6. 10 Things a Teacher Can Do
1. Learn about bullying and violence
2. Democratic classroom. Zero tolerance for
name-calling, put-downs and taunting.
3. Know the warning signs.
4. Anti-violence student activities.
5. Have a school emergency plan.
6. Firm, fair and consistent school rules.
7. Report to principal ALL violent incidences (physical and
verbal)
8. Teach conflict resolution/anger management skills.
9. Incorporate prevention of violence into your lessons.
10. Encourage students to report suspicious activities/
behavior.
Bullying is a “Learned Behavior”,
which means it can be “unlearned”

7. 10 Things Students Can Do
1. No weapons at school.
2. Report crimes to authorities.
3. Report suspicious or worrisome
behavior.
4. Learn how to manage anger.
5. Settle disputes peaceably.
6. Teen advisory council.
7. Be a peer counselor.
8. Mentor new students
9. Participate in a watch patrol.
10. Have a school peace pledge/rally
Remember:
A Misbehaving Child is a Discouraged Child

8. HOW?

9. Design an environment
that meets the needs of
young adolescents
Review: Myth or Reality

10. Design an environment
that honors how the
brain learns best
Review: The Brain....

12. Design an environment
centered on the
best ways to learn
Review: The Learning Pyramid

13. Design an environment
where students have
voice and choice
Review: Cracking the Code

14. Design an environment
where learning is
engaging
Review: Acronyms

15. 20 Instructional Strategies
To Engage the Learner Graphic Organizers
Writing and Reflection
Brainstorming
Field Trips
Debates
Visuals
Movement
Humor and Celebration
Music, Rhythm, Rhyme & Rap
Cooperative Learning
Problem Based Learning
Role play/Drama/Charades
Summarizing and Notemaking
Technology
Visualization
Games
Storytelling
Manipulatives/Models
Mnemonic Devices/Acronyms
Drawing and Artwork
By Marcia Tate

16. • CALM
• SIDES
• TEAMS
• WinWin
• BRAIN
• REAL
• CASE
• Consider, Act, Lessen, Manage
• Strategic instructional design to
engage students
• Together Achieves More Success
• Working interactively, winning
independently
• BRAIN: Building safe environments, Recognizing
and honoring diversity, Assessment, Instructional
strategies, Numerous curriculum approaches
• REAL: Reflection, Experimentation,
Analysis, Lesson Design
• CASE: Copy & Steal Everything

19. Design an environment
where RELATIONSHIPS
are key to learning
Review:Classroom Management Role Plays

21. “Kids don’t care
how much you
know, until they
know how much
you care”
Charles Sposato

22. The Rest of the Story:
One more trip to the Galloway Vault
• Revisit: Itinerant Cases
• Revisit: Classroom Management Role-plays
• Housekeeping:
-Hand in Course Participation
-Hand out: Take home “synthesis paper”
-Review: 40 Generic Principles of Classroom Management/Classroom
Management Resources (Google Site, Classroom Management Mantras,
Course Learning Outcomes)
-Final Exam (Tuesday, Nov. 4th, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.), Room 913A
• Brent’s Best Practices: 3 Best “In Class” Practices/3 Best “Whole
School” Practices
• The Final Word: Believe in yourself and your power to teach
• Seeing: Dalton Sherman “Do you believe in me?”
• Wise Words

23. Make a choice
• #1. I was hired to teach, not to make kids behave
• #2. You can be friendly with kids, but you can’t be friends
• #3. Minimize student misbehavior by maximizing student
learning
• #4. Manage your class, don’t discipline it
• #5. Don’t let them see you smile until Christmas
• #6. Catch ‘em being good

26. Build it and they will learn
“If we want to have engaged brains in the
classroom, we have to have an interactive
environment” … Spencer Kagan
“Artful teaching is a love triangle between
the students, the teacher, and the content
…Carol Ann Tomlinson
“Fairness is everyone getting what
they need in school”
…Martha Kaufeldt
“All kids in our society are at risk
…Dr. Martin Brokenleg
“We have school-induced ADHD because
schools aren’t brain compatible with the
brains of today’s children”
…Dr. David Sousa
“What is best for the best
should be best for the rest”
…Dr. Roger Taylor
“Kids learn by what they do, not by
what they are told”
…Pat Wolfe
“Are we training kids to write tests for life,
or are we training kids for the tests of life”
….Art Costa
There are no ‘bad’ kids, just
kids with ‘bad’ problems”
…Harold Brathwaite
“’At risk’ students are those who leave
school before or after graduation with
little possibility of continuing learning”
…Roland Barth