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Certificate in Understanding Bullying and Harassment for Educators
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$74.79
You will be invoiced £60 as we are based in the United Kingdom.
About The Course
Certificate in Understanding Bullying and Harassment for Educators
Course Duration: 3 hours 9 minutes (approx.)
School leaders are responsible for preventing bullying and harassment at school and are liable for any harassment suffered by their staff. According to the TUC, 29% of employees reported being bullied at work. Of these, 35% left their jobs because of bullying and 46% said it affected their performance.
This essential CPD course provides you with the core content you need to understand the legal positions on harassment and bullying within school, the responsibilities of educators and how to correctly respond to incidents.
Split into bite-sized modules, the training has been designed to provide maximum learning potential in the leanest, most cost-effective and most time-efficient manner. It has been produced in high-quality remote video CPD format which is accessible on any device, anytime, anywhere.
Delivered by Stephen Burnage, a school leadership specialist and expert practitioner with over 25 years’ teaching experience, the course has been divided into seven modules with a knowledge assessment at the end to help you evidence your learning.
Designed in line with the following policies:
- Equality Act 2010
- Human Rights Act 1998
Learning outcomes
- Understanding what constitutes bullying and harassment in legal terms and recognising the overt and covert signs of bullying and harassment at work.
- Recognising how to carry out a risk assessment and how to implement control measures that will reduce and eliminate risks.
- Identifying a range of accepted definitions of bullying, when behaviour is considered bullying and what policies and procedures should be in place to respond.
- Recognising the effects that bullying and harassment have on the individual, offenders, those who witness it and on the organisation.
- Understanding how to develop a preventative environment and anti-bullying culture that is example-led and based on model behaviour.
Course Units
Introduction
Delivered by Stephen Burnage, a school leadership specialist and expert practitioner with over 25 years’ teaching experience, the course has been divided into seven modules with a knowledge assessment at the end to help you evidence your learning.
Module 1: What is bullying and harassment?
Module 1 will help you understand how bullying happens and discuss the legislation around bullying and harassment. It will also cover the different types of discrimination and protected characteristics.
Module 2: Recognising bullying
Module 2 will explore case studies of bullying and help define the risk factors. It will also discuss the role of culture in supporting an ethos of bullying and how to develop a healthy culture led by risk assessment.
Module 3: Procedures and guidelines
Module 3 will help you understand the development of bullying and harassment policies, management standards for anti-bullying behaviour and the procedures around formal complaints, mediation, dismissals and employee tribunals.
Module 4: Bullying in the workplace
Module 4 will explore how bullying may take place in the workplace and the importance of knowing company policies. It will also cover talking strategies for help and support and work through ways to help empower staff.
Module 5: Bullying in an education setting
Module 5 will cover specific examples of bullying among staff in an education setting, how to document incidents correctly and what strategies can be put in place to help empower staff and provide help and support.
Module 6: Behind the bullying
Module 6 will draw on the perspective of the bully and demonstrate the motives behind bullying behaviour. You will also learn what support is available to bullies and techniques for dealing with anger.
Module 7: Preventing bullying behaviour
Module 7 will provide you with support on how to implement a culture of anti-bullying, including the importance of knowing your workplace well, keeping an open-door policy and modelling anti-bullying behaviour.
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