Guide to School Discipline

A presentation for new teachers, veteran teachers,

and educational leaders.

© 2005 Mark Karadimos

Introduction

• teachers with a number of research driven strategies and practical ideas to institute classroom environments conducive to learning,

• educational leaders a framework to build successful, cohesive organizations.

This tutorial will provide:

Various Strategies

• Reality Therapy (RT) • Positive Approach to Discipline

(PAD) • Teacher Effectiveness Training

(TET) • Transactional Analysis (TA) • Assertive Discipline (AD) • Adlerian Approaches • Student Team Learning (STL)

Reality Therapy

• Form Connections Between Behavior and Consequences

• Elements: Class Meetings, Clearly Communicated Rules, & Use of Contracts.

Positive Approach to Discipline• Treat with Respect• Grant Responsibilities

• Elements: Developing and Sharing Clear Rules, Providing Daily Opportunities for Success, and Administering In-School Suspensions.

Teacher Effectiveness Training

• Differentiate Between Student and Teacher Problems

• Elements: Teaching Students Problem-Solving & Negotiation Skills.

Transactional Analysis

• Identify Issues & Make Changes

• Elements: Reaching Students By Counseling to the Child, Adult, and Parent Components of Their Psyche.

Assertive Discipline

• Define Rules & Clear Expectations

• Elements: Enforcing Penalty System With Increasingly Serious Sanctions.

Adlerian Approaches

• Understanding Student’s Reasons for Behavior

• Helping Students Change Behavior & Meet Their Needs

• Elements: Using a Variety of Methods.

Student Team Learning

• Focus on Group Learning

• Elements: Creating Cooperative Learning Environment & Using Team Learning Instruction.

Learning the Strategies

• Awareness of Discipline Strategies

• Mastery of Styles• Personal Teaching

Styles• Population, Learning

Environment, & Time

Laying a Foundation

• Use Short, Clear, & Reasonable Set of Rules

• Focus on Positive Events

• Be a Role-Model• Maintain Involvement

Bell-to-Bell• Manage Conflicts Calmly• Handle All Discipline

Problems

Preventive Practices

1) Staff committed to exercising intolerance of conditions that inhibit learning.

2) High expectations for appropriate student behavior.

3) Clearly state rules that are developed from all participants within a school, including staff, students, and administrators.

Preventive Practices4) Create a warm environment

where educators take an active interest in the personal goals, achievements and problems of students.

5) School leaders are visible, accessible, and supportive.

6) Teachers are expected to handle routine discipline problems. Help from the principal is provided in the form of staff development and assistance for critical situations.

7) Form partnerships with the community.

Advanced Strategy

Three Key Areas to the Strategy

1) Cultivating Students

2) Documentation

3) Prosocial Skills

Advanced Strategy

• Desire to Help Students Grow

• Understanding that Students are in Development

• Lots of Patience

• Time

Cultivating Students

Advanced Strategy

• Individualized Discussions

• Get Students to Understand a Problem Exists

• Have Students Brainstorm Solutions

• Move to Student-Teacher Agreed Solutions

Documentation

Advanced Strategy

• Metacognition

• Lifelong Framework for Handling Conflict– Problem

Identification– Problem-Solving

Skills

Prosocial Skills Training

Conclusion

• Improvement is a Community Event

• Consistency is Crucial

• Alternatives to Standard Education

• Rigorous Standards

AFT Guidelines

Resources

• AFT. (n.d.) Tips for Student Discipline. Retrieved on August 7th, 2005 at: http://www.aft.org/topics/discipline/downloads/tips.pdf Cotton, K. (2001) Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html

• ITAA (n.d.) A Summary of Transactional Analysis Key Ideas. Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at: http://www.itaa-net.org/ta/keyideas.htm

• Karadimos, M. (2003) Behavior Identification & Adjustment. Word Document accessible at: http://www.mathguide.com/services/Discipline/BehaviorIDA.doc

• Karadimos, M. (2005) Guide to School Discipline. Word document available at: http://www.mathguide.com/services/Discipline/GuidetoDiscipline.doc

• McIntyre, T. (2005) Assertive Discipline. Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at: http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_MCINTYRE/AssertiveDiscipline.html

• Steffins, P. (1995) Positive Approach to Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/family/g1190.htm

• William Glasser Institute (2005) Counseling With Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy . Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at: http://www.wglasser.com/thenew.htm

Resources

• WikEd (2005) Teacher Effectiveness Training. Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at: http://moodle.ed.uiuc.edu/wiked/index.php/Teacher_Effectiveness_Training

• Yorba Middle School (n.d.) Preventive Discipline/Management. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/discipline_research.htm

• Churchward, B. (2003) 11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.honorlevel.com/techniques.xml

• The Master Teacher (2002) Discipline Help: You Can Handle Them All. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.disciplinehelp.com/

• McGraw-Hills. (n.d.) Classroom Rules Sample and Suggestion. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/downloads/pdf/classroom_rules_example_guidleines.pdf

• Wiggins, D. (n.d.) Classroom Management Plan. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~dwiggins/plan.html