Respecting Others Objectives To be able to identify
Respecting Others
Objectives • To be able to identify why ‘Respect’ is important by both learners and staff • To assess how ‘respectful’ you are in a learning environment • To clarify the zero tolerance approach to bullying and harassment • To identify the procedures for reporting bullying and harassment
What is respect? • Write down four things that relate to the term ‘RESPECT’ • Watch the following two links, devised by learners. Do you agree? Are the four areas that you identified included? • What do Learners think? • Learner RESPECT video
Examples RESPECTING TUTORS AND OTHER LEARNERS (IN CLASS) • • • Listening when my tutor is talking? Being punctual to class Listening to the views of other learners Entering the class ready to learn? ( e. g. Equipment, phones off, no food and drink) Displaying appropriate body language? Contributing to the topic? (even if it is a subject that you do not like!) Meeting deadlines for assessed work? Contributing fairly to group work? Making sure all the work I hand in is my work/ no plagarism? Using appropriate language in class Treating people who may be different to me as equals?
Bullying and Harassment! Where to? • Your Course Tutor or Progress Tutor • Student Services • Assistant Principal button on Student Zone • Tell your family and ask them to contact College
What can be classed as bullying? • Unwanted physical contact • Unwanted verbal or written contact • Non verbal harassment e. g, staring or gestures • Indirect harassment e. g, spreading gossip, ignoring and withdrawal of friendship • Cyber-bullying e. g, through texts, emails, mobile phones, social networking sites • Unwanted coercion eg, pressure to join a particular “gang”, political or religious group • Unwelcome sexual advances e. g, pressure for unwanted sexual activity • Victimisation e. g, singling out an individual for particular treatment or criticism • Intimidation e. g, aggressive or threatening behaviour
What will happen after I have reported bullying? 1 • The staff member you spoke to, will complete a report which also says what they have done to resolve the situation. 2 • All reports of bullying go to the Student Services Manager and your Curriculum Leader/Head of Programme Area to ensure that action is taken. 3 • If the incident is a serious assault, or harassment on grounds of race, religion, gender, disability, ethnicity or sexuality, it may constitute a hate crime, and will be reported to the Police who will investigate and provide support.
External contacts There a wide range of external organisations that can provide advice and support including: • Childline: 0800 1111, www. childline. org. uk • NSPCC: www. nspcc. org. uk, help@nspcc. org. uk • EACH (Educational Action Challenging Homophobia): 0808 1000 143 (10 am - 4 pm Mon-Fri), www. eachaction. org. uk, info@eachaction. org. uk • Police (Hate crime reporting racism, homophobia, disablism): 0161 872 5050 Useful websites: • www. bullying. co. uk • www. stonewall. org. uk (Information and facts about homophobic bullying) • www. tameside. gov. uk/hatecrime
Respect works both ways! • What would you expect to see from Staff?
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