Prompt 2 (2nd Webinar Session): Did you experience Bullying as a child either as a victim, witness or as a bully? How did you survive that experience and what did you learn from it that is helping you now as a teacher?

Bullying is not something I am too familiar with personally. The grade schools I went to were low socioeconomic but, while there was teasing and fights, I never noticed repeated negative behavior towards one child. Now that I am an instructor it is more obvious when students are picking on a student for acting\being different.

Unfortunately, because I have little experience with it, I had a bit more difficulty picking up cues to help me identify it. So I, from the start of the class, mention to students to be respectful of everyone and that negative comments are not welcome in the class. I do this in the hopes that even if it is happening, and i do not know, at least I am preventing it in the classroom.