Beyond Discipline

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Beyond Discipline

• Alfie Kohn
• Classroom Management
• EDUC 360

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Beyond Discipline

• operates under the premise
• Students are responsible for their own behavior
• Students are capable of controlling their own
  behavior

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Beyond discipline looks like

• A student-directed management style
• Teachers allowing students to experience natural
  consequences
• Absence of physical or psychological punishments

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Beyond discipline

• Does not promote removing student with
  misbehavior from the classroom
• Creates a unconditional community
• Designs classroom as a safe place

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Beyond discipline

• Promotes creating a sense of belonging
• Teaches unconditionally
• Has high expectations with unconditional
  acceptance
• Sees student separate from behavior

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Kohn promotes

• Working with children to encourage their social
  and moral development which means

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Utilizing childrens need

• To be able to make their own decisions
• To belong
• To learn and apply learning

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So focus on

• Learning
• Classroom environment
• Set of values vs rules
• Natural curiosity and need to learn

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Community environment has

• No competition
• No rewards
• Words of encouragement
• Respect
• Sense of belonging
• Class meetings

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When misbehavior happens

• Focus on curriculum
• What is the purpose of the task?
• Is the learner constructing new information?

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Emphasize a curriculum based on

• Students affinities
• Opportunities to construct new knowledge
• Working with peers
• Group projects
• Multiple learning styles

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Remember students are

• Compassionate
• Sympathetic
• Courteous
• Curious
• Constructivists creating their own knowledge