What are Patterns?
Patterns are solutions to solve reoccurring real life problems within a context. Patterns come into effect when a problem is addressed or identified in our daily lifes. The advantage of having Patterns is overcoming the reinvention of the wheel and reducing reoccurring problems . Beside that it also saves time.
Name
Beat Bullying in Primary Schools
Problem
Why does an average bright child becomes target of bullying?
Context
Bullying starts off very early these days in schools. Because a particular child's exam results are good(which are above 75%) and or if the child is active in school curriculum it will automatically highlight the child for being outstanding performer in the classroom. Therefore, the child will either be isolated or picked by his or her classmates who tend to gang up. This is bullying.
Solution
The class teacher should promote group studying and activities which encompasses of table points so that every child will take part effectively. This will promote building of confidence and communication and finally reviewing students progress report to understand & compare the study patterns which has been effective to fill the gaps.
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Madam!
Good afternoon!
Somehow, I agree with what you have cited, but bullying hasn’t born recently. It has been there since the world came into being. It doesn’t only happen within the precincts of the schools, but @ other places including homes and in several ways.
It’s widely experienced @ workplaces too. As soon as a beauty queen or a model looking gentleman joins the colleagues, he or she has been commented +vely or –vely. Everyone starts guessing if she’s single or looking to have a casual relationship. In case of him, the rumours spread; he’s interested in a lady older than himself.
Cousins team up to criticize one among them. In a real life example, I’ve noticed, a young boy of 7 had very weak eyesight naturally, hence had thick spectacles. A good number of cousins (male and female both) gave him a name of grandpa and it actually becomes his name among them. The embarrassment proved his constant loss of self-confidence. Because of that he performed too poorly to stay in school. Pressure of looking old as compared to his actual age made him loose all his friends. In addition, his loneliness forced him to loose his consciousness and leaded his way to I.C.U.(Intensive Care Unit). He rarely stayed there for just more than a week and passed away.
I myself was worstly targeted for about 10-12 years in my school and high school days respectively. Always, I was left alone while my classmates went to play in the playground. I wanted to sit in the front bench but the extra talented pupils leaded my way to the back benches. @ the back of the class, plenty of students were wasting time and distributing movies and games among themselves hence never paid attention towards the lessons. I hated it and wanted to move away from their company. I’ve been threaten by the groups of tall and stronger students of my class if I dare say anything to the teacher or principal against them. I was too scared that I even fail to tell my parents about it. I rarely scored A or A+.
I used to cry whenever no one was around. Bright pupils hated me because I was sitting @ the back of the classroom. I hardly ever asked any question hence my knowledge level went down constantly. My fitness suffered because I have never ever been invited to play any sort of game with classmates.
Tutors never paid attention towards these matters. I overheard a tutor exchanging her views in her lunchtime, they were assigned a lot of lessons to be taught, and hence couldn’t pay concentrate of these MINI matters such as BULLYING.
Every single one of us should be sensible enough to understand each others feelings and avoid bullying each other in any way. Mother’s lap is the first educational centre for a baby. Besides, the development of his or her mind is fairly based on his or her surroundings.
Much obliged.
Respectfully,
Abid.
Hi, thanks for the blog. I however think that bullying is quite a vast field, while as a pupil A bullies pupil B, pupil C may bully B, because pupil A bullied B, not necessarily but B is bright. Hope am not confusing you. It therefore turns out that the context is not specific. Just wondering how this can be made more specific.
Thanks
Hello there,
I would partially disagree with your example because from my personal experience, if a student is doing good in studies and active in school activities then other student would try and get in touch with him/her more because of his good performance.
However, if you put it this way then it is very understandable:
If the child who is doing very well in studies is differnt from other students in terms of country origion, color or religion
for example - an asian student doing well in class would be targeted
Hi Dil,
I agree with the fact that pattern helps avoid reinvention of the wheel thus saving development time, but don’t you think the reusability nature of pattern stifles innovation?
Also, I will not agree with you that using patterns reduce reoccurring problems. It sure does solve recurring problems but reducing recurring problem I don’t think so.
By the way, keeping writing about pattern.
Good day
thansk for your effort in explaining patterns and trying to come up with a pattern example, i dont agree with your problem,
stated; Problem
Why does an average bright child becomes target of bullying?
i think you should have said; how to prevent a bright child from been a target of bullying.
cheers, keep up the good works.
Marville
Hi Dil,
It happened to be that it took me more time to read Abid's comment than your Pattern! Well, I agree with your pattern of Bullying. I think the context is very clear and the pattern and the solution are totally to the point with the context.
May be I’m wrong but I think other’s are missing the whole point of Pattern. To justify my point I would like to state the idea of Pattern one more time. “Pattern is a solution to a recurring problem under a PRECISE context”. Your context is classroom bullying to a bright child and your solution totally directs to the centre of this problem. Abid has a point or may be I should say he has several points which can be framed into several patterns under several specific contexts.
Bullying is a very crucial agenda these days. I remember watching this advertisement on the Advertisement Screens on several London Buses where it shows young kids being the victim of bullying and they try to convey the message in many different ways. One child writes it in the crossword game of a newspaper that his mother was reading, one girl writes it on her father’s notebook, another girl conveys the message using magnetic letters on the freezer. So, yes, we have to find solutions to this problem and you have done a wonderful job finding solution for at least one context of bullying… Well done!
Nuruzzaman (Zaman)
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