Fredric Jones: Positive Discipline Model
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FREDRIC JONES:
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
MODEL
By Lacey Head and Brittany Vance
DEFINITION
According to Fredric Jones, classroom discipline is “the
business of enforcing classroom standards and building
patterns of cooperation to maximize learning and minimize
disruptions.”
In order to make Positive Discipline successful, these four
components are needed: limit setting, omission training,
positive training, and backup system.
TEACHER’S
RESPONSIBILITY
Teachers must model appropriate behavior and use proper classroom
management techniques.
• Teachers must respect students in order to get respect from them in
return.
• If a teacher acts mature then the student will more than likely model the
teacher’s behavior.
Teachers need to organize classroom furniture to maximize mobility
and accessibility to students.
Teachers need to establish control in the classroom by using body
language such as eye contact, physical proximity, facial expression, and
body carriage.
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Teachers should provide incentives for students so that they have
motivation to get work completed.
A teacher needs to provide a back up system.
• In Jones’s words, “a back-up system is a series of responses designed
to meet force with force so that the uglier the student’s behavior
becomes, the deeper he or she digs his or her hole with no escape.”
• Some examples are: warning, conference with student, time-out, loss
of privileges, being sent to the office, detention, conference with
parent, in school/out of school suspension (three days), expulsion.
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Not only do good teachers tell students how they should act, but
they demonstrate appropriate behavior in all of their interactions and
daily routines. Be the example.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY
If the teacher is doing his or her job by setting an appropriate
example for students, then the students will duplicate that behavior in
their own lives.
KEY TERMS
Limit Setting- Actions that the teacher takes to stop a student’s
inappropriate behavior and to prompt the student to on-task behavior
through the use of body language.
Responsibility Training- A system for ensuring positive cooperation in
the classroom.
Omission Training- The individualized incentive program that
encourages defiant students through the omission of unwanted behavior.
Backup system- System of consequences that we explained before.
PROS AND CONS OF
MODEL
We were trying to think of a con to this model, but we feel that
every teacher should act this way naturally.
If a student refuses to follow the teacher’s lead in setting an
example then the backup plan will come into effect.
We feel that even though this plan may have flaws, it is a great plan
to enforce in the classroom because it covers such a wide array of
issues.
RANDOM FACTS:
Jones found that 50% of classroom time is lost due to student
misbehavior and being off task.
• 80% of lost time is due to talking without permission.
• 19% is lost to daydreaming, students being out of their seats, making
noise, etc.
• 1% is lost due to more serious behaviors such as fighting.