Classroom strategies regarding the needs of children with bullying, and child to child sexual acting out behaviors: A reflection on the strategies and methodologies that prove effective in classrooms in Miami Dade County, Florida 

ABSTRACT   Children that have behavior problems, such as bullying, and child to child sexual acting out, have diverse needs that become their survival. These inappropriate behaviors demonstrate the child's frustrations... [ view full abstract ]

ABSTRACT
 
Children that have behavior problems, such as bullying, and child to child sexual acting out, have diverse needs that become their survival. These inappropriate behaviors demonstrate the child's frustrations perhaps in the only way he or she knows how to express them. Therefore, classroom teachers need appropriate strategies and methodologies to identify and address these needs within the classroom.
 
OBJECTIVE
 
To attempt to find effective strategies and methodologies for teachers to identify and address the needs of children with behavior problems such as bullying, and child to child sexual acting out, with the goal to create opportunities for their needs to be understood and met preventing them from feeling like “voiceless menaces to society" as they grow up.
 
METHOD
 
This investigation is rooted in observations and interviews focused on diverse schools in Miami Dade county. 
 
The intention is to identify effective methodologies that will help pinpoint the needs of children with bullying and child to child sexual acting out behaviors, and the best strategies to address them. 
 
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
 
The purpose of this investigation is to give teachers concrete strategies and methodologies to identify and address difficult behaviors such as bullying and child to child sexual acting out experiences within a classroom and to prevent the augmentation of frustrated voiceless children. The investigation will generate effective interventions that will give children with these type of experiences and behaviors the tools to develop appropriate self-defense mechanisms and grow to be global citizens with a voice.