Teacher training: Pillar for the identification and bullying management

Abstract

This paper is focused on explaining the improving of the process of identification and management of school violence by teachers of primary education in the “Nicolás Gómez Tobar” school in Santo Domingo city during the period of 2016-2017. The applied proposal consisted of a training module which describes different types of school violence as well as models of pacific conflict management among students, which can be applied in the educational context of the institution, ever since strengthen the pacific violence management is a real teacher’s need. The methodology of this study was based on an explanatory research and quasi experimental design. With the application of a pretest, intervention and a posttest to a sample made up of twenty-two teachers, who teach from the initial to tenth grade. The applied research techniques were the survey and the statistical analysis. The results obtained through the research effectively show that training improves school violence cases identification and also the possibility of applying one or several pacific conflict resolution models. The importance of teacher training on the violence identification and conflict management as part of the improvement of the teaching career is explained in the conclusions, as well as the benefits of making teachers aware of this habitual issue in the school context.