Teachers' Competencies in Cyber Bullying Prevention Strategies at Primary School

The study investigates the influence of teacher competence on cyber bullying prevention strategies at primary school and achievement in skills to create training needs in order to develop teachers' vocational and pedagogical competences as well as competences relating to prevention and supporting co-operation and to the parents community. Schools should not be separated from the community where students are coming from to do better work with youth at school and eliminate different pathological manners. Second part of this study investigates the extent of pupils' experience of cyber bullying. A survey study of 152 students from primary schools and 40 teachers was conducted. In this paper, 'cyber bullying' refers to bullying via electronic communication tools. The teachers refers experiences with prevention programmes in cyber bullying at primary school. The results show that close to half of the pupils were bully victims and about one in five had been cyber-bullied. More than half of the pupils reported that they knew someone being cyber bullied and the most of them know the offender personally or have a relationship with him at school or meet him at home.