About the course
Course duration: Approximately 3 hours. You can take the course at your preferred time and your own pace.
Learning approach: Create your own learning journey by navigating through the different activities
How does it work? 100% online
Certification: By completing the steps gradually, you complete the course and receive a certificate of attendance by KMOP Education Hub and COFACE Families Europe.
Free: The course is free of charge and is open source based on registration.
Modules and training materials
The course is split into two modules consisting of various activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning, organized into learning-paths that gradually guide you to achieve the objectives. You can learn through multimedia material, interactive activities and practical exercises that will keep you active and make the course engaging.
Are you a teacher, school manager, or education practitioner working with children and youth?
Positive classroom dynamics is every educator’s dream and what every student deserves. Through this e-learning course, discover useful insights into the causes, expression, and effects of bullying, as well as clear guidelines on how to prevent and tackle bullying in any school setting. This is an introductory course and requires no prior knowledge of bullying. It is useful for teachers, students in the fields of psychology, education and social sciences, as well as for all education professionals who need basic but also well-founded knowledge on school bullying prevention and management.
Bullying and its impact on communities
School bullying and violence is a worldwide worrisome phenomenon that occurs within a broad context, where it becomes very difficult for educators and pupils to control violent behavior through interaction. Violence in educational settings is a daily reality that deprives millions of children and young people of the fundamental human right to education and free expression. According to an estimation by Plan International, 246 million children and adolescents experience violence in and around school every year. Girls are disproportionately affected compared to boys, as well as those children who do conform to prevailing sexual and gender norms.
Develop your understanding of the dynamics of bullying and help your community
This first e-learning course, focuses on school bullying prevention and management, providing effective skills for teachers mainly, but also for all professionals in any educational setting who work with children, adolescents and their families.
The training as a whole, is done in an interactive way, so that the trainee is given the opportunity to fully understand and assimilate each thematic unit.
You are going to receive clear and detailed instructions on how to apply all the methods and techniques you need to know, in order to gain the ability to deal with bullying behavior, contribute to the development of a healthy school environment and consequently help children, families and the wider society where we all live.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to…
- Understand the characteristics of bullying behaviour and the types of bullying
- Describe the cycle of bullying and the social dynamics of the phenomenon
- Learn how to talk to children, victims of bullying and children who are engaged in bullying
- Explain the reasons why cyberbullying is different from other types of bullying
- Develop actions you can take to prevent bullying and create a positive school climate.
- Understand the significance of the taking a “whole school approach” to prevent and tackle bullying
Thank you and we hope that you are going to enjoy the training!
Who developed the course?
This course was developed based on the expertise of the KMOP Education Hub, by educational psychologists with many years of proven experience in the prevention and treatment of violent and intimidating behavior in children and young people. It is fully asynchronous and will take place within a Learning Management System called Moodle.
Meet your trainer : Dr. Antonia Torrens
Dr. Antonia Torrens is an educational psychologist, President and General Manager of KMOP (1998 – cont.) and Vice President of COFACE Families Europe. She is a graduate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds an M.ED and Ph.D in Educational Psychology from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. In 2004, she undertook at KMOP (Center for Social Action & Innovation) the establishment and operation of three housing structures and a day center for the mentally ill within the national program “Psychargos”. Dr. Torrens has an excellent knowledge of National and EU funded projects and is an experienced Project Director and Project Manager.She has supervised numerous projects at national and international level, both in the field of the physical object of the works, and in the production of educational tools that contribute to the better living of socially vulnerable groups, such as people with disabilities, unemployed, victims of violence and trafficking, elderly, ethnic minorities and many others.
In 2015 she created and since then she runs the “Live Without Bullying” program, an innovative program aiming to prevent and deal with school and cyber bullying implemented and financed by KMOP. The program has so far assisted more than 30,000 children and teachers throughout Greece and it has signed memorandums of cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Sports and other public bodies. It has also been distinguished as a best practice by COFACE Families Europe and in October 2022 it was distinguished globally by the organization “Hundred” in Finland, as one of the 100 most important and innovative actions in the field of education.
