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The Positive Discipline Model
The Positive Discipline Model
Teachers must convey dignity and cooperation. If students feel they are
respected as individuals, they will want to act with similar behaviors.
Likewise, when teachers act maturely and competently, students will see
them as role models after whom they pattern their own behavior.
Not only do good teachers tell students how to act, they demonstrate
appropriate behavior in all their daily routines and interactions. Fredric H.
Jones developed a model of classroom discipline which stressed the
physical presence of the teacher.
The basic assumptions of Positive Discipline Model are that children need
to be controlled and that teachers can achieve this control through body
language, administration, and parental support. His model is based on
extensive observation of classroom teachers and student behavior.
Jones believes that discipline problems occur because of mismanaging
various routines and procedures in the classroom. Rules may be
misunderstood. Seating arrangements may prevent easy access to
students. Thus it will be difficult to monitor their behaviors.
Moreoever, interactions between the teachers and the students may
promote misbehavior.
Rules:
Correctly?
On time?
Jones found out that about 50% of classroom time is lost due to student
misbehavior and being off task.
distance and the fewest physical barriers between themselves and their
students.
Some teachers believe the students should have the freedom to select
their own seats in the classroom.
Jones prefers to have assigned seats. Without assigned seating, the ones
who want to talk or disrupt the classroom environment will sit in the back
of the classroom next to their close friends.
Jones believes that teachers must employ very specific, limit
setting techniques.
Limit setting means the actions taken by the teacher to control the
students natural reflexes and motivate students back to work while the
students are doing seatwork and the teacher is lecturing.
Warning
time out,
loss of privileges
detention