Blended Learning Modules for School Leaders Teachers and Parents

As part of the ComBuS approach to tackling bullying, it was decided that the project would pilot a ‘whole-school programme’; this means involving all actors in the school community to raise awareness of the issue of bullying, to convey real understanding of the issue and to instruct all actors on how to react to and report incidents of bullying when uncovered. To ensure that school leaders, teachers and parents are all involved in this process and informed of the reality of bullying in schools, the toolkit includes specialised blended learning modules for each of these target groups. There are individual modules for school leaders and principals, teachers and parents; and these have been designed as four 90-minute units; three of which can be completed online and one to be completed in an interactive face-to-face workshop. These units cover topics such as understanding and defining bullying, identifying bullying, responding to bullying, reporting and resolving bullying and an introduction to cyberbullying; and aim to directly address the needs of these target groups in combatting bullying.