Guide to School
Discipline
A presentation for new teachers,
veteran teachers, and school
administrators
© 2005 Mark Karadimos
Introduction
This tutorial will provide…
1) teachers with a number of
research driven strategies and
practical ideas to institute
classroom environments conducive
to learning,
2) educational leaders a framework
to build successful, cohesive
organizations.
Various Strategies
• Reality Therapy (RT)
• Positive Approach to
Discipline (PAD)
• Teacher Effectiveness
Training (TET)
• Transactional Analysis (TA)
• Assertive Discipline (AD)
• Adlerian Approaches
• Student Team Learning
(STL)
Reality Therapy
• Form Connections Between
Behavior and
Consequences
• Elements: Class Meetings,
Clearly Communicated
Rules, & Use of
Contracts.
Positive Approach
to Discipline
• Treat with Respect
• Grant Responsibilities
• Elements: Developing and
Sharing Clear Rules,
Providing Daily
Opportunities for
Success, and
Administering In-School
Suspensions.
Teacher Effectiveness
Training
• Differentiate Between
Student and Teacher
Problems
• Elements: Teaching
Students ProblemSolving & Negotiation
Skills.
Transactional Analysis
• Identify Issues & Make
Changes
• Elements: Reaching
Students By Counseling
to the Child, Adult, and
Parent Components of
Their Psyche.
Assertive Discipline
• Define Rules & Clear
Expectations
• Elements: Enforcing
Penalty System With
Increasingly Serious
Sanctions.
Adlerian Approaches
• Understanding Student’s Reasons for
Behavior
• Helping Students Change Behavior &
Meet Their Needs
• Elements: Using a Variety of
Methods.
Student Team Learning
• Focus on Group Learning
• Elements: Creating
Cooperative Learning
Environment & Using
Team Learning
Instruction.
Learning the Strategies
• Awareness of
Discipline Strategies
• Mastery of Styles
• Personal Teaching
Styles
• Population, Learning
Environment, & Time
Laying a Foundation
• Use Short, Clear, & Reasonable Set of
Rules
• Focus on Positive Events
• Be a Role-Model
• Maintain Involvement Bell-to-Bell
• Manage Conflicts Calmly
• Handle All Discipline Problems
Preventive Practices
1) Staff committed to exercising
intolerance of conditions that inhibit
learning.
2) High expectations for appropriate
student behavior.
3) Clearly state rules that are developed
from all participants within a school,
including staff, students, and
administrators.
Preventive Practices
4) Create a warm environment where educators
take an active interest in the personal goals,
achievements and problems of students.
5) School leaders are visible, accessible, and
supportive.
6) Teachers are expected to handle routine
discipline problems. Help from the principal is
provided in the form of staff development and
assistance for critical situations.
7) Form partnerships with the community.
Advanced Strategy
Three Key Areas to the Strategy
1) Cultivating Students
2) Documentation
3) Prosocial Skills
Advanced Strategy
Cultivating Students
• Desire to Help Students Grow
• Understanding that Students are in
Development
• Lots of Patience
• Time
Advanced Strategy
Documentation
• Individualized Discussions
• Get Students to Understand a
Problem Exists
• Have Students Brainstorm
Solutions
• Move to Student-Teacher
Agreed Solutions
Advanced Strategy
Prosocial Skills Training
• Metacognition
• Lifelong Framework for Handling
Conflict
– Problem Identification
– Problem-Solving Skills
Conclusion
AFT Guidelines
• Improvement is a Community
Event
• Consistency is Crucial
• Alternatives to Standard
Education
• Rigorous Standards
Resources
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AFT. (n.d.) Tips for Student Discipline. Retrieved on August 7th, 2005 at:
http://www.aft.org/topics/discipline/downloads/tips.pdf Cotton, K. (2001) Schoolwide
and Classroom Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html
ITAA (n.d.) A Summary of Transactional Analysis Key Ideas. Retrieved on August
12th, 2005 at: http://www.itaa-net.org/ta/keyideas.htm
Karadimos, M. (2003) Behavior Identification & Adjustment. Word Document
accessible at: http://www.mathguide.com/services/Discipline/BehaviorIDA.doc
Karadimos, M. (2005) Guide to School Discipline. Word document available at:
http://www.mathguide.com/services/Discipline/GuidetoDiscipline.doc
McIntyre, T. (2005) Assertive Discipline. Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at:
http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_MCINTYRE/AssertiveDiscipli
ne.html
Steffins, P. (1995) Positive Approach to Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/family/g1190.htm
William Glasser Institute (2005) Counseling With Choice Theory: The New Reality
Therapy . Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at: http://www.wglasser.com/thenew.htm
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WikEd (2005) Teacher Effectiveness Training. Retrieved on August 12th,
2005 at:
http://moodle.ed.uiuc.edu/wiked/index.php/Teacher_Effectiveness_Traini
ng
Yorba Middle School (n.d.) Preventive Discipline/Management. Retrieved on
June 8th, 2005 at:
http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/discipline_research.htm
Churchward, B. (2003) 11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline.
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The Master Teacher (2002) Discipline Help: You Can Handle Them All.
Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.disciplinehelp.com/
McGraw-Hills. (n.d.) Classroom Rules Sample and Suggestion. Retrieved on
June 8th, 2005 at:
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/downloads/pdf/classroom_rule
s_example_guidleines.pdf
Wiggins, D. (n.d.) Classroom Management Plan. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005
at: http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~dwiggins/plan.html