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Procative Discipline

Pretest

These are some of the hard questions teachers ask when they move to pro-active discipline. How far along are you in considering or implementing pro-active discipline?

If we spend time teaching students new skills for self management, what happens to the current curriculum model that’s already overtaxing?
Do we cheat students of content? Do scores go down?
There are some really troubled kids in schools today. How can pro- active discipline techniques work with kids who are ‘out of control’?
How do students with emotional disabilities respond?
What if I am pro-active in my classroom management and other teachers aren’t. Won’t it be a waste of my time and hard on the others in the profession?
What will administrators and peers do about this? I hardly think it will be popular!
Aren’t there times when blind obedience should be taught?
Are we teaching students to question authority and unleashing a monster?
What about punishment -- Don’t kids need a little retribution, a little fear?
If we do not use compliance as a model for classroom management, then what will a different approach look like and how can we make it happen?
Once a teacher starts to share power in the classroom, won’t the students take over and abuse the system?
Where do I get time for teaching respect, building community, preparing students to take responsibility for self?
What will parents think about a departure from old standards?
Does this mean we will need to individualize instruction?

If you find these questions intriguing, you will enjoy this module. If you already have practices you like that contradict preparing students to be self responsible, or consistently use and tout behaviorism, you may find this material challenges your basic assumptions about children.
Visit ___________________________ and take the test to get an idea of your management style if you have not been there before.

     Goodlad, J. I. (1990). Teachers for our nations’s schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

     Hyman, I. A. (1990). Reading, writing and the hickory stick: The appalling story of physical and psychological abuse in American schools. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

     Kohlberg, L. (1981) The philosophy of moral development (vol 1), San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Piaget, J. (1965). The moral judgment of the child. Illinois: The Free Press.

Staus, M. A. (1994). Beating the devil out of them: Corporeal punishment in American families. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

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