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Title: Discipline with Dignity


1
Discipline with Dignity
Students cannot learn responsibility without
choices and without an opportunity to make
mistakes and learn from them.
  • Richard L. Curwin
  • and
  • Allen N. Mendler

2
Discipline in Schools
  • How do we deal with it?
  • Schools need behavioral management programs to be
    effective educators.
  • Varying causes of discipline problems Out of
    school, and in school.
  • Study by Rutter et al showed that schools do make
    a difference.

3
Three-Dimensional Discipline
  • The Prevention Dimension - how to prevent
    problems
  • Self-awareness of teacher and their emotions
  • Motivation
  • Social contract
  • The Action Dimension - how to solve the problem
    without making it worse
  • The Resolution Dimension - how to handle the
    out-of-control student.

4
12 Processes
  • 1. Let students know what you need
  • 2. Provide instruction at levels that match the
    student's ability
  • 3. Listen to what students are thinking and
    feeling
  • 4. Use humor
  • 5. Vary your style of presentation
  • 6. Offer choices
  • 7. Refuse to accept excuses
  • 8. Legitimize misbehavior that you cannot stop
  • 9. Use hugs and touching in communication with
    kids
  • 10. Be responsible for yourself and allow kids to
    take responsibility for themselves
  • 11. Realize and accept that you will not reach
    every kid
  • 12. Start fresh every day

5
The Responsibility Model
  • Requires a lot of work!
  • Student involvement in development of discipline
    plan
  • Can be more time-consuming
  • Progress slow due to students learning
  • Results not immediate
  • Teachers also learn how their actions lead to
    discipline problems.

6
The Responsibility Model
  • Encourages improved teaching and learning
    performance.
  • Fosters critical thinking and promotes shared
    decision-making.
  • Students respond better when they have some
    control, even when they dont get their way every
    time.

7
Principles of Discipline Plan
  • Dealing with student behavior is part of the job.
  • Always treat students with dignity.
  • Discipline works best when integrated with
    effective teaching practices.
  • Acting out is sometimes an act of sanity.

8
The Social Contract
  • Involve students
  • Clarity of rules
  • Fitting consequences, not punishments
  • Allow contract to change
  • Flexibility to teachers for each situation
  • Have safeguards to protect dignity of students

9
Consequences
  • What should consequences do?
  • Four types of consequences
  • Generic
  • Conventional
  • Educational
  • Natural/Logical

10
Taking Action Delivering Consequences
  • Intervention
  • Stabilization
  • Reframing
  • Eight ideas for effectiveness
  • Avoid power struggles
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