11 September How can you use restorative justice when dealing with bullying?

By: Jan Ruigrok

Time: 15:30 - 16.45

Sector: Secondary education, MBO, primary education & special primary education

Organisation: Rigardus

Target audience: all education professionals interested in restorative justice

Register: here.

What measures do you take when bullying occurs in the classroom? Traditional measures for misconduct and conflicts often focus on exclusion: ‘if you bully, we no longer want you to be part of the group.’ But restorative justice says: ‘if you bully, you place yourself outside the group, and we find that unfortunate, because we are happy to have you with us.’

In this workshop, Jan Ruigrok introduces us to the principles of restorative justice, which involves more than simply resolving conflicts. Restorative justice actually strengthens relationships and the community at school, as well as working together to be ‘good to one another’. Almost everyone is actually looking for connection and restoration, because isn’t that in our genes?

This workshop examines education and offers an impetus for turning uncertainty about how to act in conflicts and bullying into decisiveness, as well as greater self-confidence and fulfilment in your work. It will be a combination of theory, practical examples and what we call a ‘video learning conversation’.

14 September Confidential counsellor and contact person for bullying: good to one another!

By: Frank Brouwer

Time: 15:30 - 16.30

Location: Online

Sector: Primary and secondary education

Organisation: School & Safety Foundation

Target audience: internal confidential counsellors in primary/secondary education; and those interested in how to organise this effectively at school

Register: here.

Pupils and parents who are dealing with bullying need to be able to turn to someone at school. It is important that they can trust that the bullying problem will be addressed and that they can go to school safely. Every school must therefore have a contact person for bullying. Traditionally, the confidential counsellor has been the contact person for all undesirable behaviour within the school, including bullying. It is therefore self-evident that at most schools the internal confidential counsellor has been appointed as the contact person for bullying. But how do you carry out this task?

In this informative workshop, Frank Brouwer discusses the role of the internal confidential counsellor as the contact person for bullying and how they cooperate with colleagues within the school. How do you ensure that you have your responsibilities properly organised?

  • What is the difference in approach between the contact person for bullying and the teacher when a pupil who is being bullied comes to you?
  • What are the limits of what you can do, and who do you involve to help address the bullying problem?
  • How do you work with the anti-bullying coordinator, who is responsible for the anti-bullying policy, the anti-bullying protocol and the approach to bullying at school?
  • What is the approach when a pupil or parent comes to you with a bullying problem?
  • What opportunities are there to make yourself visible within your school as a confidential counsellor and contact person for bullying?

There will be an opportunity to share experiences and ask questions during the workshop.

18 September De Kindertelefoon: How do you make difficult topics open for discussion?

By: Anita Joosstens

Time: 15:30 - 16.30

Location: Online

Sector: Primary education, MBO & secondary education

Organisation: De Kindertelefoon

Target audience: education professionals in primary, secondary and MBO education

Register: here.

At De Kindertelefoon, we have conversations about bullying every day. With children and young people who are bullied, bystanders and the bullies themselves. To be good to one another, you need to learn how to talk to each other, including about difficult topics.

Talking and listening help. Together, we look at what need is present; often, behind awkward behaviour there is a positive intention. That is why we help children and young people have conversations, make difficult topics open for discussion and increase their self-awareness and insight.

How do you do that? What questions do you ask and how do you make genuine contact? In this workshop, you will learn about the conversation techniques we use in the more than 1,000 conversations we have with children and young people every day.

19 September Good to one another: practice makes perfect

  • By: Willemijn Rinnooy Kan, Emma Oude Egberink, Nathalie Vriezelaar
  • Time: 15:30 - 16.45
  • Location: Online
  • Sector: Primary and secondary education
  • Organisation: School & Safety Foundation and Citizenship Expertise Centre
  • Target audience: education professionals in primary and secondary education
  • Register: here

Being good to one another; it sounds easier than it is. Sometimes there is friction, including at school. But how bad is that? It may be uncomfortable, but it is also part of living together. You have to learn how to live together, and that involves trial and error. School is precisely a wonderful place to practise.

This webinar focuses on the school as a place to practise citizenship and how this perspective can contribute to shaping and safeguarding a safe school climate. In a safe environment, you can practise treating one another with respect. Regardless of what your pupil population looks like, every school offers opportunities for pupils to practise interacting with people who are different from them.

In this webinar, Willemijn Rinnooy Kan presents insights from research into schools as places to practise citizenship. These insights will help you reflect on the question: How is living together modelled at my school?

Afterwards, Nathalie Vriezelaar and Emma Oude Egberink will explore what this means in practice. How can you, as a teacher, contribute to a safe school climate in which pupils can practise citizenship? After all, you shape your pupils through everything you do and do not do. Using the discussion tool ‘Pas op de plaats’, we will discuss the school as a place to practise citizenship.

21 September Good to one another on social media

  • By: Loïs Gampierakis and Frank Sikkink
  • Time: 15:30 - 16.45
  • Location: Online
  • Sector: Primary and secondary education
  • Organisation: School & Safety Foundation
  • Target audience: education professionals in primary and secondary education
  • Register: here

Pupils are fascinated by the possibilities available online. But this also has another, darker side: online bullying. And that can be intrusive, because bullying continues everywhere and at all times, reaching more people more quickly. How do you deal with this as an education professional?

‘What is my role in online bullying? How do you respond to memes about a teacher or fellow pupil? As a teacher, do you actually know enough about trending topics, and should you even want to know everything?’ These are just some of the questions we will address during this workshop.

Using trending topics and case studies, Loïs and Frank will guide you through these dilemmas, particularly those surrounding online bullying. This will be supplemented with tips and tricks that can be applied directly in the classroom. From digital contracts to informing parents in emergencies in which social media play a role, such as sexting. What do you need to take into account? And what knowledge do you need for this approach? Sign up now for this interactive workshop and take the next step within #onlife.