Coach confident defending behaviours through the Confident Behaviours Exercise¶

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Description¶

Because children who bully tend to pick on children with low status in the social group, and low-status behaviour may cue peers that a child is not confident (poor eye contact, fidgety gestures, poor posture), the BPP includes the Confident Behaviours Exercise. The class is split into a Group High Confidence and a Group Low Confidence that model assigned behaviours, the exercise is repeated so all children model confident behaviours, and role-plays then require the defender to employ confident behaviours.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Splitting the class into two groups with learners of varying confidence levels in each
• Teacher coaching of high- and low-confidence behaviours before defender role-plays

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Primary school pupils

Target Learning Goals¶

• Displaying confident behaviours when defending peers

Related Strategies¶

• Cast a popular child in the defender role-play

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Peadar Donohoe and Carmel O’Sullivan. (2015). The Bullying Prevention Pack: Fostering Vocabulary and Knowledge on the Topic of Bullying and Prevention using Role-Play and Discussion to Reduce Primary School Bullying. Scenario, Volume 2015 · Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.9.1.6