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3.3: Teasing


In this activity students discuss teasing and its impact on both the teased and the teaser.

Tasks

  1. Distribute copies of Handout 7: A new school to students.
  2. Ask students to read the short story contained on the handout.
  3. Brainstorm with the class the answers to the following questions:
    • How do you think Peter feels?
    • How do you think Peter will be affected by the teasing?
    • What could you do to help?
  4. Summarise the students' responses on the board or on butcher's paper.
  5. Lead a class discussion on the students' own experiences with teasing and the effects it has on the parties involved.
    • Have you ever been teased? How did you feel?
    • How did you react? How did you want to react?
    • Have you (or your friends) ever teased anyone? Why?
    • How did you feel when you (or your friends) were teasing this person?
    • How do you think they felt? How did they react?
  6. Conclude this activity by summarising the impact of teasing on both the person being teased and the teaser.
Teacher Notes
  1. When inviting students to share their own experiences of teasing, invite all students to participate, but do not force any student who may feel threatened.
  2. Care should be taken to ensure that teasing examples are not re-enacted in the classroom or that individual students do not become the targets of teasing during this activity.
  3. Any similar text may be substituted for handout 7 and the activity questions adapted accordingly.
Activity adapted from Teasing in SHIMAN, David A. The Prejudice Book: Activities for the Classroom, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1988.
Downloads
Resources
  • Butcher's paper