Letter+from+Latvia+and+Interview+Questions+May+22-25

See below. We WILL do this this week. Yeehaw. Back on track! Thanks Velda.

Dear Richard,

I am writing to explain some problems with the work on the project. I remember I wrote some time ago that we have just 1 lesson a week, which is, in fact, 40 minutes long. Please, do not think that it is just a convenient excuse. My students are really working and we are trying to follow all the phases and do the required work. 3 weeks ago teachers from another district visited our school and we told them about this project. The students themselves planned and conducted a lesson with a Round Table on the topic "Bullying and Other Injustices". I also asked the students to answer the 6 questions for discussion sent by you and they did it. The problem is that I could not send those pieces of writing without checking and correcting the errors. Unfortunately, I did not manage do it on time. Now we are supposed to work on the interviews, otherwise we will not manage to finish the project because our school year is over on the 31st May. At the moment school-leavers are having national exams and we, teachers are very busy. I am sending the questions for the interviews, created by my students. I would appreciate very much if your students did the same. We think we should interview a police officer, a student, a teacher, a social worker and a psychologist. What are your ideas? According to the project programme it should be done during this week. I do not know if we manage but the students are planning to work in groups and try to carry out the work. I think you should do the same and then we we will send to each other what we have and decide how to summarize it all. Even if we have some collaboration problems, the main point is that the students are working. We should also take into account that this kind of work is being done for the first time and there can always be problems.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Velta

The Draft Questionnaire

Questions to be asked all the interviewees:

1) Is bullying a common occurrence in modern society? Why do people bully others?

2) Can bullying be justified? Why?/Why not?

3) What do you normally do facing or observing bullying?

4) What measures should be taken to prevent or reduce bullying in different parts of the world, this country and our community?

Questions to be asked a psychologist:

1) Why did you decide to become a psychologist?

2) How do you help people to overcome the problem of injustice or fear of bullying?

3) What is statistics on cases of bullying in our district and this country?