Enlisting the help of students to stop classroom teasing and taunting will give students firsthand knowledge of the harmful effects of bullying. Choose a few students from the class to act as reporters during lunch breaks and recess. Instruct the student reporters to observe and record all bullying behaviors exhibited by their classmates. Have the students report their findings to the class and discuss.
Create a classroom-bullying guide to remind students how to handle different bullying situations. Instruct each student to draw a picture and write a short story on the correct way to handle different types of bullying situations, such as teasing, taunting, hitting and name-calling. Title each page and compile the student pictures and stories into a classroom-bullying guide. Review a page from the bullying guide on a weekly or daily basis.
Rewarding good behavior is one effective method of encouraging kind treatment between students. Create a reward chart with the names of the students who typically engage in bullying behavior. Advise the students that each day there are no reports of unkind behavior the student will receive a star on the chart. After accumulating a certain amount of stars, such as 10, allow the student to redeem the stars with a prize or a privilege.
Encourage classroom discussions on bullying by allowing students to share their thoughts and feelings. Give each student a journal and instruct each student to record any classroom-bullying situations the student observes or is a part of each day. Review the journal entries on a daily or weekly basis and discuss topics such as how a student feels when being bullied or what makes a student bully a classmate. Teachers can keep a classroom chart and record each instance to track the impact of the journal discussions on the number of bullying instances.