Teacher-student interactions play crucial roles in ongoing bullying prevention efforts. Teachers’ instructional styles and behavioral modeling shape the ongoing socialization of students toward desired academic and social goals. How teachers respond to bullying becomes a socializing experience that exerts a significant influence on the future behaviors of involved students as well as the classroom’s broader social climate.

Many would argue that teachers have some of the most say in being able to stop bullying that happens in their classroom as they are coming from a position of power that peers do not have.  The next question would be whether or not targeting teachers as agents will help stop the instances of bullying in the classroom setting:  Teacher Microsystem (Literature and Studies)