Informative Speech Outline: bullying exactly

I, How many of you have been hearing about bullying? As you may hear on TVs or news or people are talking about the rates of bullying is going up from years to years.

II, According to a research survey, bullying occurs once every 7 minutes in schools. Due to the National Youth Violence Prevention Center, almost 30% of adolescences in the USA (or over 5. 7 millions) are estimated to take part in bullying either bullying, being bullied or both. Also according to a 2007 nationally representative poll by The Workplace Bullying Institute, 37% of US workforce or 54 million employees have been bullied some time during their work time.

III, Bullying can affect anyone, so you can gain something from this speech by being informed about bullying

IV, Today, I am going to explain the definition of bullying, what its effects are and how to prevent it. Body I, First of all, let’s explain in details what bullying means.

A. What is bullying exactly and why?

1. Firstly, bullying is intentional behaviors that are designed to hurt, harm, or damage the victims. It can take many forms like verbal, physical, social/relational/emotional, or cyber bullying – or any combination of these).

Next, there must be an imbalance power involved (the bullies have power over the victims). Finally, it is often repeated periodically.

2. So what do bullies want? The book “Talking about Bullying” says:

a. Bullies want to feel important and big, create attention: dominate others or use others to get want they want

b. They want to feel like they are better than others

c. They want to hurt others and make them feel small

B. In order to know when bullying happens, we also need to know about ways and means of bullying

1. Physical

a.Typically, physical bullying involves: hair pulling, pinching, pushing, shoving, slapping, kicking, tripping, poking, stabbing, spitting, hitting, punching, head butting, choking, scratching, hiding or destroying someone’s property, etc.

b. Example: pushing peers against the lockers to ask for money, or touching someone in a sexual way when it’s not wanted…

2. Verbal

a. Ways bullies can use language or words to hurt others: name calling, taunting, swearing, spreading rumors, gossip, note writing, laughing at someone’s mistake, insulting nicknames, hate speech, mocking or imitating, threats, abusive remarks, etc.

b. Example: Calling someone crybaby, trout mouth; saying nasty things about someone else…

3. Emotional/ Relational:

a. Nonverbal: pointing, staring, laughing, making faces, rolling their eyes, making loser signs, or sticking up middle fingers, etc.

b. Psychological: excluding, isolating, ignoring or turning their back on someone such as leaving someone out of activities or game, purposely not talking to someone… c. Another type of relational bullying is cyber-bullying is now very popular.

Bullies can send emails spreading rumors, making vulnerable digital images of someone else, texting someone mean messages, online exclusion, videotape assault, etc.

II, Bullying has extremely great effects on children so I will go into depth about children’s effects of bullying

A. Educational and mental fear always in the bullied’s minds.

1. Keeping secrets and fears become phobia:

• a. Ashamed of being bullied
• b. Afraid of retaliation if telling an adult
• c. Don’t think anyone can help
• d. Don’t think anyone WILL help
• e.Lie

1. “The parent’s book about bullying” states the real effects are:

• a. skip schools ( In 2001, The journal of the American Medical association reported that > 160,000 students skip school every day because they are fearful of being bullied)
• b. don’t join in extracurricular activities
• c. carrying weapons
• d. Avoiding peers and social group at school
• e. reluctance to talk about what is happening at school
• f. sad and depressed
• g. Unexplainable drop in academic performance

2. Being bullied can lead to commit suicide.

• 1.Example: Jan 1999, Manchester, England, 8-year-old Marie Bentham hanged herself in her bedroom with her jump rope because she felt she could no longer face the bullies at school. She is considered Britain’s youngest bullycide.
• 2. Example: June 29, 2005, a 15-year-old in Cape Coral, Florida, hanged himself after being repeatedly taunted online for 2 years by his classmates.

III, Bullying is a life-death issue so we need to prevent it at home, school, or work.

A. For parents

• 1. intervene immediately with discipline
• 2. create opportunities to “do good”
• 3 . report the incident to school or child’s care
• 4. teach friendship’s skill
• 5. closely monitor children’s TV viewing, video game playing, computer activities, etc.
• 6. engage in more constructive, entertaining, and energizing activities

B. For teachers and school

• 1. gathering info about bullying at school directly from students
• 2. establishing clear school-wide and classroom rules about bullying
• 3. training all adults on school to respond sensitively and consistently to bullying
• 4. providing adequate adult supervision
• 5. mproving parental awareness of and involvement in working on the problem C.

For the bullied Tell the bullies to stop Speak to the school personnel, parents or adults outside of school Have your parents contact the school or school district Seek help for mental health issues if needed Anyone can become a victim of bullying but we can decrease our chances of being bullied of ours and others by being more informed on the concept, the effects of bullying and how to prevent it. Now, since you have more information about bullying, you may protect yourself and the ones you love!