PUPIL DIRECTED APPROACH

A student centered approach intends to encourage independence and to allow children to choose their own

behaviour.
In a student centered classroom, the teacher:

allows the sharing of decision making and control of the class

allows personal and group initiatives delegates the responsibility for behaviour to the learners encourages active participation towards the fulfillment of mutual goals

The goals of discipline:

Because learners have more opportunity to decide how to learn individually, there should be a tendency to have less behavioural management problems. Boredom and failure, two of the main causes of behavioural problems, are virtually eliminated. The teacher is cast as a facilitator of learning, not a dictator of information. One who is seen as a reference, a guide, a source, and a guide to the growth and development of the intellectual child.

 Using this method, traditional punishment and extrinsic reward discipline is largely diminished.
Proponents of the student centered approach are: Thomas Gordon. Human beings are self-regulating and can thus learn to manage their own behavior. (8Models, 2014) Carl Rogers. believed that humans have one basic motive, that is the tendency to self-actualize - i.e. to fulfill one's potential and achieve the highest level of 'humanbeingness' we can. (Simply Psychology, 2013)