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Cyberbullying Hub

The Cyberbullying Guidance for Teachers Information Hub has been created by Webwise to provide guidance to teachers and school leaders on the issue of cyberbullying, creating an anti-cyberbullying culture and promoting student’s wellbeing including online wellbeing.

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The Cyberbullying Guidance for Teachers Information Hub has been created by Webwise to provide guidance to teachers and school leaders on the issue of cyberbullying, creating an anti-cyberbullying culture and promoting student’s wellbeing including online wellbeing.

It also supports teachers and school leaders participating in the online cyberbullying courses developed by the Oide Technology in Education with Webwise.

The hub provides access to a range of supports including the online cyberbullying courses, expert advice videos, course resources, Webwise resources, along with other useful anti-cyberbullying resources.

Cyberbullying Courses

Oide Technology in Education with Webwise have developed two new online courses for all teachers and school leaders, primary and post primary:

– Cyberbullying (Primary Schools):
Understanding, Preventing and Responding

– Cyberbullying (Post Primary Schools):
Understanding, Preventing and Responding

The aim of these cyberbullying courses is to provide teachers with the knowledge, resources and confidence to teach about cyberbullying and deal with cyberbullying incidents as they arise. Both courses seek to inform primary and post-primary teachers and school leaders about the issue of cyberbullying, outline a school’s role in creating an anti-cyberbullying culture and promoting student’s wellbeing including online wellbeing.

It will help school leaders understand the practical ways their staff can incorporate anti-cyberbullying initiatives both in the curriculum and in their daily interactions with students. It will also help teachers gain awareness of how they can make use of anti-bullying initiatives, policies and procedures in order to be better equipped to prevent and tackle bullying and cyberbullying and promote a positive, respectful and caring student-centred environment.

This course has been developed in consultation with students, educators, Oide Health and Wellbeing team, Digital Technologies Team and Leadership Team, SPHE experts; Suzanne Graham and Deirdre Lavelle and includes input from experts including Dr. Seline Keating (Lecturer in SPHE and Wellbeing in DCU Institute of Education), Dr. Tijana Milosevic (Elite-S Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, DCU Anti-bullying Centre), Dr. Colman Noctor (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist), Dr. Maragret Nohilly (Coordinator, Professional Master in Education & Lecturer, Mary Immaculate College)

Expert Advice Videos

Involving students in cyberbullying awareness and prevention.

Cyberbullying prevention and awareness in the SPHE classroom.

Fostering a student-centred and caring anti-bullying school environment.

Supporting School Leaders in promoting a preventative whole-education approach to cyberbullying.

Nuts and Bolts – An Anti-Bullying Policy Reflective Framework.

What does a safe and caring classroom look like? (Primary)

What does a safe and inclusive classroom look like? (Post-Primary)

Cyberbullying in Ireland: Prevalence, harms, school remit.

Cyberbullying: Reporting and Moderation.

Cyberbullying and children’s rights.

Understanding cyberbullying.

Involving students in cyberbullying awareness and prevention.

Cyberbullying Course Resources

Template for recording
cyberbullying behaviour

Checklist for Teachers:
Is it cyberbullying?

Communicating with parents

Tips for Being
an Upstander

What to do if I am being bullied online

Webwise Resources

Webwise has a range of anti-cyberbullying education resources for Primary and Post-Primary levels.

Hard copies of these can ordered for free, while digital copies are available for download.

Youth Voices

What does a safe and inclusive classroom look like?

Hear what students have to say.

Other Resources

Bí Cineálta procedures to prevent and address bullying behaviour for primary, post-primary and special schools.

Stand Up Awareness Week is an annual campaign to celebrate and recognise the LGBTI+ community.

Tackle peer-based online sexual harassment by empowering communities to work together to increase reporting among young people.

A practical online safety PSHE toolkit with films and lesson plans to explore online issues with pupils aged 11-14 years old.

A programme that supports primary and secondary schools to become more inclusive of all cultures and ethnicities, celebrate diversity and challenge racism and discrimination.

An Education Awareness Programme on Homophobic and Transphobic bullying in primary schools.

Materials to support the SPHE curriculum addressing topics such as bullying, self-identity, media and citizenship.

A primary school resource to tackle gender stereotyping, gender-based bullying and gender-based violence.

FUSE is an Anti-Bullying and Online Safety Programme developed by DCU Anti-Bullying Centre.

An online safety teaching toolkit for educators to deliver with young people aged 11-16 with special educational needs and disabilities.

Support for parents and professionals supporting children & young people with special education needs & disabilities, those who are care-experienced & those who identify as LGBTQ+.

Childline by ISPCC’s Shield Programme responds to bullying by disseminating knowledge and providing an evidence-informed self-evaluation tool and education programme, aimed at the prevention and intervention of bullying in the community and nationally.

GenTOPIA is a game-based educational resource aimed at students (14 -16 years) in second-level education. It involves a series of interactive activities which address gender stereotypes, consent, digital safety, street harassment, coercive control, non-consensual image sharing, and homophobic bullying.

Nuts+Bolts aims to assist schools in the yearly evaluation of their anti-bullying policy.

Helplines

Talk to someone

Worried about something you have seen online or concerned about your child? Childline and the National Parents Council Primary offer free advice and support service.

Childline is a support service for young people up to the age of 18.There is a 24hr telephone, online and mobile phone texting service.

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The National Parents Council Primary enables and empowers parents to be effective partners in their children’s education.

01 887 4477
helpline@npc.ie

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