USC6.1
Analyze the factors that influence the development of personal standards and identity, and determine the impact on healthy decision making (including cultural norms, societal norms, family values, peer pressures, mass media, traditional knowledge, white privilege, legacy of colonization, and heterosexual privilege).
Indicators for this outcome
(a)

Describe values one appreciates in self and in others and explain why.

(b)

Propose why people behave the way they do (e.g., personal beliefs, societal norms).

(c)

Identify sources of, and evaluate information about, personal beliefs and values.

(d)

Communicate an informed personal definition of personal standards (e.g., core personal values that are reflected in how you treat yourself, how you treat others, what and how you speak, your behaviours).

(e)

Uncover personal standards by exploring questions such as:

  • What are the standards that I will expect myself to live by at all times?
  • What are my standards for dealing with challenges/problems?
  • What are the boundaries for the attitudes and actions that I will accept for myself, my peers, my family, and my community? What standards are part of my cultural heritage?
(f)

Consider how and why personal values may change (e.g., norms, trends, values/priorities, relationships, critical events).

(g)

Investigate (including through drama, dance, music, and/or visual art) the factors that have the most influence on personal standards.

(h)

Describe healthy attitudes and behaviours that affirm personal standards.

(i)

Define identity as being related to who we feel we are and how we define ourselves.

(j)

Examine the connections between affirming personal standards and developing identity.

(k)

Explore when personal standards may be reinforced or challenged.

(l)

Analyze events or factors that cause people to make decisions that reflect or conflict with their personal standards.

(m)

Discuss factors that affect the identities of people as a result of colonization.

(n)

Determine how decision making is influenced by personal standards.

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R053198
Why Do Bullies Bully?
After watching these four programs, students will gain a better understanding of bullying and build a stronger foundation when dealing with bullies.
What is A Bully? What Bullies Do - What does a bully look like? What does a bully sound like? This program provides insight that helps students identify bullies and understand why and what they do.
What is A Bully? Why Kids Do It - Some may think that being angry, calling names, and pushing people around is a normal way to act. This program discusses how bullying makes the bully feel and how the victim feels, too.
What is A Bully? Funny or Mean - Through live-action, age-appropriate scenarios, viewers will come to understand why some kids are so aggressive, hurtful and mean to their classmates, teammates, friends and family members. Students will discover that there are a variety of reasons kids turn into bullies. Some may think that being angry, calling names, and pushing people around is a normal way to act.
What is A Bully? Don't Become One - Students will discover that there are a variety of reasons kids turn into bullies. Some bullies are looking for attention. Others may think bullying is a way to be popular or to get what they want. But most of the time, bullies are trying to make themselves feel more important.
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Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Topic : Bullying
Price : $89.95
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R040912
Agnes Parker...Girl in Progress
This uplifting, humorous novel introduces readers to Agnes, a sixth grade student, who decides to become a new, improved person. During her transformation, Agnes faces numerous challenges such as adapting to new glasses, dealing with the ups and downs of a budding relationship with a boy, coping with friction between her and her best friend, standing up to the class bully and dealing with a broken arm. However, through her trials and tribulations, Agnes manages to affirm her standards, discover more of her identity and, ultimately, become a stronger person.
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Media and Formats : Book
Topic : Bullying
Price : $7.50
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R044434
Prevention in Motion: Preventing Abuse, Bullying and Harassment of Children and Youth
Tailored for adults, this resource clearly defines various types of abuse, neglect and harassment. It outlines indications of problems and their effects on children and youth. Readers will learn of the barriers and benefits to preventing violence and methods for proactively building safer relationships within schools and communities. Included are a table of contents and a bibliography of related resources.
Media and Formats : Book
Topic : Bullying Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Price : $20.00
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054407
There's More to Poverty Than Meets the Eye: Building Engaged Citizens for Poverty Reduction and Community Well-Being
The goals of this resource are to support and enrich curriculum areas related to social compassion and responsibility, interdependence, justice, human dignity and equitable distribution of power and wealth. This resource will help students: develop a sense of identity and their roles within their communities; begin to understand the root causes of poverty; begin to understand the relationship between poverty and health; be able to discuss poverty in relation to the other social determinants of health; develop self-esteem and confidence by becoming active participants in an interdependent world; develop respect for the rights, needs and dignity of others; foster cooperation and work collectively toward a common goal and develop problem-solving and decision-making skills.
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Price : Free
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Record posted/updated: January 3, 2019
R031728
In Other Words
This program focuses on students as they discuss the cruel language and hurtful behaviour that they frequently experience. In Other Words shows ways that gay and lesbian students deal with homophobia and harassment. The film emphasizes the importance of support groups and it stresses that change is needed if schools are to be safe places for all students.
Media and Formats : Video
Topic : Bullying
Price : Free
free
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Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R048713
Teen Health. Course 1
This user-friendly resource invites students to think critically and to apply health concepts through a variety of physical exercises and activities. The chapter titles include: Your Health and Wellness, Mental and Emotional Wellness, Healthy Relationships, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Personal Health, Your Body Systems, Growth and Development, Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Preventing Diseases and Safety and the Environment. Each of the chapters is divided into three to six short lessons that can be adapted to fit Health Education 6 and includes a reading review and assessment activities. This American resource also provides a practical reading skills handbook and a fitness handbook. Throughout this resource, there are various colourful photographs, graphs and charts. Teen Health includes a table of contents, a glossary and an index.
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Media and Formats : Book
Topic : Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Price : $90.41
Record posted/updated: March 15, 2023
R044274
The Isabel Factor
In this fast-paced coming-of-age novel, 15-year-old Anna and her best friend Zoe have their summer plans altered when Zoe breaks her arm. Anna and Zoe were going to be counsellors in training at a west coast camp together, but now Anna, the less adventurous one, must attend without the support of her long-time friend. At camp, Anna befriends the noncomformist Isabel and learns many valuable life lessons, however, Anna still has a lot of growing ahead.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $8.95
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R044433
Beyond the Hurt: Peer Harassment and Bullying Prevention for Adults Who Work With Youth(3rd ed.)
This current, highly informative publication provides a detailed look at peer harassment and bullying prevention. The book clearly defines various types of bullying including verbal, physical, relational, cyber and sexual. It also explores abuse of power and criminal harassment. Readers learn about the rights and responsibilities of self and others and about intervention and prevention issues, including law and policies. Included are a table of contents and a bibliography of related resources.
Media and Formats : Book
Topic : Bullying Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Price : $20.00
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R102367
Got Lungs? Grades 6-8 Know Tobacco Resource Guide
This website includes numerous lessons that support tobacco prevention provincial health education curricula.
Media and Formats : Document Website
Price : Free
free
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Record posted/updated: April 27, 2019
R041565
No Room for Bullies: From the Classroom to Cyberspace
Designed for educators, administrators and parents, this book helps readers to recognize bullying problems and offers strategies to help rectify the problems. No Room for Bullies offers ways to measure the social climate of a school; a 12-point checklist on preventing problems in hallways, classrooms and common areas; advice for establishing and reinforcing classroom rules; a safe Internet-surfing contract for students and more. Included are a table of contents, lists of resources and an index.
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Media and Formats : Book
Topic : Bullying
Price : $14.95 US
Record posted/updated: April 27, 2019
R036308
Apples and Oranges
This video is set in a classroom where students are engaged in an exercise about bullying, stereotypes and the harmful effects that language can have on people. The students create pictures that portray sensitive situations, such as a young girl who has two moms and two boys whose friendship comes to a halt when one boy learns that the other is gay. The students' representations and stories are brought to life through animation. The program dispels myths about gays and lesbians, challenges homophobia and focuses on respect and acceptance.
A teacher's guide is available.
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Media and Formats : Video
Topic : Bullying
Price : Free
free
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Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R050584
The Internet and You: Staying Safe
Designed to make surfing the Internet a positive, safe experience, this lively video focuses on instant messaging, blogs, email, chatrooms, and social networks. In an entertaining fashion, The Internet and You conveys a serious message regarding online dangers such as predators, phishing, identity theft and cyberbullying.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Topic : Bullying Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Price : $129.95
Record posted/updated: July 2, 2020
R053201
What's Respect?
Each of the four vignettes on this video teaches about respect. A narrator introduces the topic in each vignette and then each one is followed by a set of questions to encourage reflection and consideration of personal experiences. By the end of this program, students will understand the importance of respecting rules, themselves, and others.
What's Respect? Respecting Rules - Why are there rules? What does it mean to respect rules? The program helps students to understand the importance of following rules and their impact on society.
What's Respect? Self Respect - In this program, students learn what it means to have self-respect. They will come to understand the importance of knowing what their values are and how they differ from others.
What's Respect? Respecting Everyone's Ideas - This program explores the concept of respecting the differences in people. In this segment, students learn the importance of respecting different ideas.
What's Respect? We're All Different - Students will learn each person is different and it is important to respect these differences.
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Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : $89.95
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R051758
Brain Gains: Better Grades Through Fitness
The National visits an inner city high school in Saskatoon, SK, where teacher Allison Cameron tests the theory that vigorous daily exercise improves academic performance. City Park Collegiate is considered a high school of last resort for kids who haven't been able to make it anywhere else. The Grade 8 and 9 students contend with a wide range of behavioural problems: almost half are diagnosed with ADHD and many work at a Grade 4 level. When Allison came across groundbreaking research by Harvard psychiatrist John Ratey (author of Spark), showing a link between sustained aerobic activity and the brain's ability to learn, she took the data to her principal to make the case for a new approach. For Allison and her students, the program was a runaway success and test results prove it.
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Media and Formats : Video
Price : Free
free
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Record posted/updated: December 23, 2018
R070965
Bullying. A Handbook for Educators and Parents
Based on research conducted in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, this professional resource from the Handbooks for Parents and Educators Series explores bullying within public schools. It provides insight into the short- and long-term effects that bullying can have on students, their families and teachers. Focusing on sexual bullying, homophobic bullying and bullying of students with disabilities, it offers insights on the social dynamics of the classroom, the hallways and the playground. Bullying: A Handbook for Educators and Parents provides guidance for teachers and parents/caregivers who are working together to prevent bullying in schools. Included are a table of contents, a glossary and an index.
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Media and Formats : Book
Topic : Bullying
Price : $43.00
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R071001
Bullying. Take a Stand Series
These six coloured posters (45 cm by 60 cm) offer valuable information that will help students to commit to dealing appropriately with intimidation, threats, harassment, social exclusion and other forms of bullying.
Media and Formats : Other
Topic : Bullying
Price : \$59.95 (plain posters) / \$69.95 (laminated posters)
Record posted/updated: November 30, 2018
R015481
Concentus Citizenship Education Resources. Grade 6: The Intentional & Explicit Teaching of Essential Citizenship Competencies
Students investigate and understand the meaning of and relationship between authority and power, influence and force. They examine this concept from a personal perspective and then extend their understanding to Canada and countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Students examine the characteristics and traits of leadership beginning with the individual and then extend their understandings to the structure of organizations, both nationally and internationally.
Media and Formats : Document
Price : Free
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Record posted/updated: January 3, 2019
R070498
Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens(Revised and Updated 3rd ed.)
This appealing book was designed to assist teenagers in understanding stress and handling it in positive ways. It provides information on building life skills, managing stress and generally gaining more control over one's life. It offers insightful advice on numerous topics such as becoming physically active, eating healthy, being assertive, building supportive relationships, taking charge of one's life, managing time, taking risks, making responsible decisions and thinking positively. The text is enhanced with several cartoon-style illustrations. Included are a table of contents and an index.
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Media and Formats : Book
Price : $21.99
Record posted/updated: March 15, 2023
R053615
Deepening the Discussion: Gender and Sexual Diversity
This document will assist individuals and communities to engage in meaningful discussions and actions to respond to the experiences, perspectives and needs of students and families who are gender and/or sexually diverse (GSD). It will: assist school divisions, central office personnel, administrators, educators, First Nations and Métis organizations and community partners to develop a deeper understanding of gender and sexual diversity; assist in understanding the unique educational, health and safety needs of staff, students and their families who self-identify as gender and/or sexually diverse; provide practical strategies, suggestions and frequently asked questions to support schools and communities as they work with students to anticipate and overcome challenges related to transphobia, homophobia and heterosexism; acknowledge the shared responsibility of ensuring that all students who identify as gender and/or sexually diverse have the same opportunities for safety, socialization and success in schools; assist educators in planning curricular-based instruction and assessment to meet the unique needs of gender and/or sexually diverse students; and assist school divisions and First Nations and Métis organizations to fulfill their ethical and professional responsibilities to provide safe, equitable and inclusive learning environments for all students regardless of their actual or perceived differences.
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Media and Formats : Document
Price : Free
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Record posted/updated: February 13, 2019