My institution is a military foreign language school, in which there is no issue of bullying. However, respecting others, including both teachers and student is mandatory, because respecting others in a language classroom helps everyone succeed. The first day students get in class, they are given classroom rules by the teaching team. Some teaching team also ask for students voices and make up the rules based on students inputs. As a military institution, breaking up classroom rules can be as serious as giving counseling. As soon as a student receives three discipline counseling, he/she can be disenrolled from the institution. The following video can be an example of most of our classroom rules.

Early this year, we decided to have only one rule in our new coming class: RESPECT. This is a perfect rule, that everyone can remember and it is our essential agreement. As we have discussed in the class, almost everything can be related to “respect”. If you respect others, you won’t come to class late; you won’t interrupt while others are talking; you are engaged and participate in class; you come prepared to class; you take responsibility for your actions, etc. At the end of our first class, students got to know that everything we do in the classroom boils down to respecting others, respecting our own self, and respecting professor’s teaching and the students’ learning.