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Pro-active Discipline and Management Ideas

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Pro-active discipline is complex. Certain foundational pieces may be essential to the art and practice of a pro-active management plan. If so, it may be possible to find support and information about these ideas in business management literature.

Find five or more sites in pro-active business management. Look for similarities between teacher as educational leader and human relations and employee management.

Try: Tom Peters, McGregor, X-Y Theory, Margaret Wheatley, Steven Covey, Maslow, Banathy, Hersey & Blanchard, Deming, Quality Circles, John Goodlad

Do you see any consistency?
Are there conflicts?
Should children have rights in the classroom?
In what ways do labor and management illuminate teaching responsibility to students? student responsibility to teachers?
Did the material suggest a connection with work ethic or production?

There is a big push to use national tests (High Stakes Testing) to get teachers and students to work harder or smarter. What does the management literature suggest about this approach and increasing productivity? Can education be informed by business management experiences?

Directions: Once you have read and discussed these ideas, send a one minute essay to the instructor, sharing your findings and feelings.

E-mail J'Anne Ellsworth at Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu

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