A practical campaign toolkit to address the issue of online sexual harassment amongst young people aged 13 – 17 years. Step Up, Speak Up! Includes a range of resources for young people and the professionals who work with them, including teachers, pastoral teams, senior school leadership and police forces.
Teaching Guide
This guide equips educators with practical strategies to raise awareness and deliver activities to young people around the emerging issue of online sexual harassment. Advice is given on establishing a safe environment for a high quality RSE or PSHE lesson, discussing sensitive topics and handling discloure
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Lesson plans, appendices and quick activities
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- PDF All lesson plans Lesson 1 - 4 including Quick Activities:
- Lesson 1 - Ground Rules
- Lesson 2 - Recognising
- Lesson 2 Appendix 4 Ama's Story Audio Recording
- Lesson 3 - Responding
- Lesson 4 - Reporting
- Quick Activities
Peer to Peer Assembly Presentation Powerpoint with instructions
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Guidance for Schools
You can view or download the Guidance for Schools as a complete document below or in three individual sections:
Teaching Toolkit
- Posters
- Quiz
- Make a pledge
- Peer to Peer Assembly Presentation Powerpoint with instructions:
- Peer Led Workshop
- Films see below or here
- Lesson plans
Films
As part of the Step Up, Speak Up! campaign to raise awareness around online sexual harassment, Project deSHAME has produced two short animated films for young people aged 13-17 to help identify, define and understand what online sexual harassment is.
These films set out to encourage the viewer to recognise that online sexual harassment is not acceptable and to take positive action if they see this happening.
https://www.childnet.com/resources/step-up-speak-up/teaching-toolkit/films
Film 1: ‘What is online sexual harassment? Addresses what it is and how it can make someone feel.
Film 2: ‘Who would you tell if you saw online sexual harassment?’ delivers a clear message about the positive outcomes of reporting unacceptable behaviour, and the different people who you can make a report to.
In Film 3: 'Put an end to online sexual harassment - what will you do?' Young people in the UK, Hungary and Denmark have come together to tackle online sexual harassment and what they need from adults to help them to put an end to it.
After watching these animations, we would like young people to be able to:
- Identify what online sexual harassment is and what forms it can take
- Recognise that it is wrong, and it does not have to be an accepted part of being a teenager
- Understand that you can do something about it and reporting it is easier than you might think
Film 1: What is online sexual harassment?
Key things you can ask your class after watching this film, see Film 1 :
- What is online sexual harassment?In the Project deSHAME report, online sexual harassment is defined as unwanted sexual conduct on any digital platform and it is recognised as a form of sexual violence.
- How can online sexual harassment make people feel?
- Why is it important to take action and help if you see or hear about online sexual harassment?
- Without discussing anything, hands up how many of you have either heard about, seen or experienced online sexual harassment?
Film 2: Who would you tell online sexual harassment?
Key things you can ask your class after watching this film, see Film 2:
- What is online sexual harassment?
- What would you do if you saw it happening?
- What reporting options were suggested in the film?
- Why is it so important to call this out?
Film 3: Put an end to online sexual harassment - what will you do?
Key things you can ask your class after watching this film, see Film 3:
- What are you going to start doing to stop online sexual harassment?
- What do you think adults should do to help?
In this film young people explain how they want adults to support them when they face sexual harassment online. This may be by listening without judgement or by gaining knowledge of the sites or servies that they use. The young people you work with may have their own examples of how the adults in their lives could work to support them.
- What will you pledge to do?
Find out more in the Project deSHAME Research Report.
Step Up, Speak Up! Campaign Toolkit 2019 by Childnet International is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.