Transcript Need a Lifesaver? - Education Designs

Need a Lifesaver?
Discipline Strategies for any Classroom!
Are You Treading Water?
• Or Drowning?
Do you feel like this at the end of your day?
Or this?
So How Do We Go From
This to This?
Losing our minds!!!
Relaxed and in control!
Let’s Work
Smarter,
Not
Harder!!!
How Do We Survive?
• Being Prepared!
• Being Organized!
• Being Positive!
• By Getting Up! (moving around)
• Being Firm, Fair, and Consistent!
Challenging Students Who:
• Resist doing the work, work
sloppy, careless
• Not prepared for class
• Late to class
• Get frustrated with the pace of
the class
• Resist taking direction or
orders
• Daydream
• Become super-sensitive to any
form of criticism; cry easily
• Become the “class clown”
• Demand good reasons for why
things are done a certain way
• Monopolize class discussions
• Become bossy with their peers
and teachers
• Become intolerant of
imperfection in themselves and
others
• Refuse to conform
• Resist cooperative learning
• Act out or disturb others
• Blurt out answers without
raising their hand
• And the list could go on and
on……….
Techniques That Don’t Work!
Raising your voice
Holding a grudge
Yelling
Nagging/Whining
Preaching
Using sarcasm
Making assumptions
Strategy One
• Modeling!
• “Values are caught, not taught”
• Teachers who are courteous, prompt,
enthusiastic, in-control, patient and
organized provide examples for their
students through their own behaviors.
• The “do as I say, not as I do” send mixed
messages.
• Treat everyone equally!
Strategy Two
• Focus!
• Get their attention before beginning a
lesson. How do I do this?
• Get quiet and speak softly (add 3-5 sec.)
• Begin your lesson once the classroom is
completely quiet
Strategy Three
• Explain!
• Tell the students exactly what they
will be doing. (Essential Question)
• An effective way to add to this is to
include time at the end of the period
for the students to do activities of
their choosing.
Strategy Four
• Environmental Control!
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Greet them at the door
Be on time
Warm Cheery classroom (less is more)
Organized Room
Have supplies handy
Personal items (students love to know about
you)
Strategy Five
• Monitor!
• You have to get up!
• Circulate!
• Good teachers monitor the activity in their
classroom moving about the room, they
anticipate problems before they occur.
• Don’t interrupt the class!
Strategy Six
• Positive Discipline!
• List your rules as what you want them to do,
not what they can not do.
• Instead of “no running in the room”, use
“move through the building in an orderly
manner”; “No gum chewing”, use “leave gum
at home”
• Make ample use of praise. When you see
good behavior acknowledge it!
• Respect all people and property
• Enter class quietly and begin working
• School rules apply at all times
• Please bring all materials to class
• Eat and drink with permission only
• Complete all assignments
• Talk with permission only
Strategy Seven
• Non-Verbal Cue!
• Click a bell, flip a light switch, hand signals,
clap, etc…
• Kids will be kids, take the time to explain
what you want the students to do when you
use your cues.
Strategy Eight
• Low-Profile Intervention!
• Much can be avoided when the teacher’s
intervention is quiet and calm.
• Teacher will take care that the student is
not rewarded for misbehavior by becoming
the focus of attention.
• Their approach to misbehavior is
inconspicuous, others in the class are not
distracted.
Strategy Nine
• I-Messages!
• Assertive-This is intended to be clear descriptions of
what the student is suppose to do. “I want you to….” or “I
need for you to….” or “I expect you to…”
• Humanistic- Include a description of the child’s behavior
“When you talk while I talk…”
• Relate the effect this behavior has on the teacher “…. and
I have to stop my teaching…”
• Let the student know the feeling that it generates in the
teacher “….. which frustrates me.”
Strategy Ten
• Assertive Discipline!
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Have a progression of steps
Have rules posted
Be clear
Go over consequences ahead of time
Contact parents
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www.honorlevel.com “Discipline by Design”
Group Activity
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Resist doing the work, work
sloppy, careless
Not prepared for class
Late to class
Get frustrated with the pace of
the class
Resist taking direction or orders
Daydream
Become super-sensitive to any
form of criticism; cry easily
Become the “class clown”
Demand good reasons for why
things are done a certain way
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Monopolize class discussions
Become bossy with their peers
and teachers
Become intolerant of
imperfection in themselves and
others
Refuse to conform
Resist cooperative learning
Act out or disturb others
Blurt out answers without
raising their hand
10 Tips for Classroom Discipline and
Management
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It’s easier to get easier
Fairness is Key
Deal with Disruptions (with as little interruption as possible)
Avoid confrontation in front of students
(Discipline in Private)
5. Stop disruptions with a little humor
6. Keep high expectations in your class
7. Over plan
8. Be Consistent
9. Make Rules Understandable
10. Start Fresh Everyday
Resources
• Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom ; Winebrenner, Susan
• www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstructudl.html
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• www.buzzle.com/articles/classroom-management-and-discipline.html
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www.ehow.com/print/how_5323774_discipline-students-classroom.html
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http://712educators.about.com/0d/discipline/tp/disciplinetips.htm?p=1
• www.honorlevel.com/x46.xml?ss=print
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http://712educators.about.com/od/discipline/tp/confrontational_students.htm?p=1