Essential Element of Adequate Discipline Model
Respect the basic needs underlies all successful interactions and communication (Glasser: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun)
Physical needs are particularly relevant – are the students hungry towards lunch time? sleepy after lunch? lethargic on a hot day? unsettled on windy days? exhausted the day after the swimming carnival? climbing the walls after days of rain? You may need to modify your lesson. The occasional block of chocolate does not go astray. On an extremely hot day towards the end of the year I arrived in the class room to find my best-behaved class ever lying on the floor. When I raised an eyebrow the most diligent and obliging one of them looked up at me very mildly, and said with a smile, ‘We’re revolting.’ ‘All right,’ I said, ‘Everyone go and get a book and lie on the floor and read.’ I don’t think that did anyone any harm.
Assertive discipline (as opposed to non-assertive or hostile)
Engaging lessons
Student Choice and sense of Ownership
Collaborative Learning and opportunities for Leadership
Challenging and Stimulating Students to extend themselves
Mutual respect and tolerance
Kindness and support
Be prepared to admit mistakes
Community
Don’t have favourites
Cater for different learning styles – or teach in a variety of ways
Use outdoors when you can
Show the students that you have faith in them (One of my most heart-warming moments was when a student wrote a note saying ‘Thank you for seeing things in me that I couldn’t see in myself.’)
Respect the basic needs underlies all successful interactions and communication (Glasser: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun)
Physical needs are particularly relevant – are the students hungry towards lunch time? sleepy after lunch? lethargic on a hot day? unsettled on windy days? exhausted the day after the swimming carnival? climbing the walls after days of rain? You may need to modify your lesson. The occasional block of chocolate does not go astray. On an extremely hot day towards the end of the year I arrived in the class room to find my best-behaved class ever lying on the floor. When I raised an eyebrow the most diligent and obliging one of them looked up at me very mildly, and said with a smile, ‘We’re revolting.’ ‘All right,’ I said, ‘Everyone go and get a book and lie on the floor and read.’ I don’t think that did anyone any harm.
Assertive discipline (as opposed to non-assertive or hostile)
Engaging lessons
Student Choice and sense of Ownership
Collaborative Learning and opportunities for Leadership
Challenging and Stimulating Students to extend themselves
Mutual respect and tolerance
Kindness and support
Be prepared to admit mistakes
Community
Don’t have favourites
Cater for different learning styles – or teach in a variety of ways
Use outdoors when you can
Show the students that you have faith in them (One of my most heart-warming moments was when a student wrote a note saying ‘Thank you for seeing things in me that I couldn’t see in myself.’)
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Thanks Charlotte a great help
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