RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Teacher's leadership

  Nowadays, bullying is rampant among children at school. According to Shinkichi Sugimori, who is a professor of Tokyo Gakugei University, teacher’s character is highly connected to bullying. So, they have to have a character which tends to supress bullying. This paper will seek the way to bring up such ideal teachers because to grow up those teachers can contribute to the extermination of bullying. Ministry of Education’s research shows the increase of the number of bullying (2014). As written above, Sugimori’s report reveals the relation between teacher’s character and bullying (2012). About how to grow up ideal teachers, there are two research papers which have fine information(Craig, Bell & Leschied, 2011; Allen, 2010). An investigation has a successful example about building favorable leadership (Seki, Takaoka, J. Misumi & E. Misumi, 2007)

   Probably, most of you have witnessed bullying in your school days, and actually, I have seen it at every stage from elementary school to high school. When I was in junior high school, there was a boy who always bullied someone. He seemed to have been bullied in the past, so he apparently attacked people to defend himself from bullying in advance. Everyone should have stopped his bullying together, however, everyone including me could not do nothing for that. From the time, I have thought bullying was a serious problem which only produced negative spiral, and also I came to have doubts toward such a school environment where no one could raise their voice against bullying.

   There are many things which can be causes of bullying, and one of the cause is teacher's character (whether strict or not, etc). We know bullying is bad because teachers taught us, however, bullying is still around many schools. It shows that to give knowledge to students is not effective, or rather, it has been sufficiently done so far. Bullying is not only a problem among students but also a problem which adults should consider. So, from now, teachers should think about what they can do for bullying as the only adults in the classrooms except for teaching that bullying is bad without regarding it as a problem only students have to concern. At the first step, I want teachers to know that to change their behavior can be one of the solutions for bullying.