Developing a Positive School

Culture
 Deal Counceling
Violence & Program
Disorder

Positive
Good School Humane
School
Rules Culture
Positive Positive
Student Control
School leaders of the 21st Century must not
only possess the different skills in managing
and administering the school, but also identify
the school culture.
School Culture:
According to Fullan (2007) it can be define
as the guiding beliefs and values evident in a
way the school operates.
It can be used to encompass all the
attitudes, expected behaviors, and values that
impact how the school operates.
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PROGRAMS
POLICIES
GOALS

BELIEFS
Level of
MYTH
School Culture
ASSUMPTIONS

PURPOSES
POLICIES
PROGRAMS
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Elements of a Humane School:

1.A school of which children, youth and staff

want to be a part

2. A school that is orderly and caring

Characteristics of a Good Schools
1. With high standards
2. With expectations
3. A caring environment
4. An orderly place
Misbehavior is deal with:
Quickly
Fairly
Openly
Without
recrimination
Four essential Ingredients of the Maximally Productive
Environment for Learning and Positive Student
Control
1. Clear, firm and high teacher and administrator
expectations
2.Consistent rules and consequences that directly relate to
breaking these rules
3.A decided and well-implemented emphasis on the self-
esteem of all students
4.Public and Private acknowledgment and rewarding of
Two equally important conditions that
must be met once the rules are in place:

1.The rules must be promulgated in a manner

that ensures understanding by all affected
individual.

2.There must be a systematic evaluation of

the need for and efficacy of existing rules.
 Five Premises about the School
Environment and Students
1. School occurs in a group context.
2.Learning occurs best in an orderly
environment.
3.An orderly environment can be best achieved
by policies and strategies that promote self-
regulations of behavior (internal control).
4.The environment is enhanced when the staff
behaves in an orderly and internally
controlled way.
5.The rules to guide behavior should be simple,
well known and continuously reinforced.
Classroom Climate Instrument/Indicator
developed by Professor Wilford Weber
were used by principals in giving feedback
to teachers about their interaction with the
students during class period are as follows:
1. The Teacher establishes clear expectations
2.The Teacher establishes and enforces
reasonable rules
3.The teacher communicates respects for
students
4.The teacher communicates genuineness
(integrity)
5. The teacher communicates empathy
6.The teacher communicates unconditional
positive regard for students
7. The teacher uses positive reinforcement
8. The teacher uses mild desists
9.The teacher applies appropriate negative
consequences for “out-of-line” behavior
10. The teacher foster group cohesiveness
11.The teacher establishes and maintain
productive group norms
12.The teacher demonstrates an
understanding of what it’s like to be a kid/teen
A principal has the responsibility to prescribe
reasonable controls for the efficient day-to-day
operations of the school.

Reasonable implicit the regulations be within

the legal authority of the school district.
Small School Plans is being directed with
much attention as a way of organizing schools.
It reduce the size of the school into unit and
provide more intimate learning environment.
 Four elements of the
school-within-a-school concept

1. Autonomous decision making (by

teachers)
2. Unique identity
3. Joints understanding of expectations
4. Teachers made responsible for their own
professional development
Other Factor Influencing Behavior

Hoopla - a public reward for achievement

where an individual also recognizes his/her
own achievements without benefits of others
approval.
Adult Visibility - community volunteer
programs help in reducing the evidence of
violence and gang activity.
Violence is a way that the
uninformed, unskilled, criminally
disposed and frustrated
individual try to level the playing
field by making an abusive act,
damage of property or real
injustice.
Gangs
-A group of young people who do illegal things
together and who often fight against other gangs.
-They are not loose social networks and its main
goal is to control and
social intimidation.
There is a gang if:
1.The group has a name and an identifiable
leader or leadership structure

2.The group maintains a geographic, economic

or criminal activity “turf”
3.Members associate on a regular and
continuous basis in school and out of school

4. The group has visual symbols

5.The group engages in delinquent or criminal

activity.
Other Signs:
1. Graffiti
2. Colors
3. Handsigns, Handshake or
Unusual Language
4. Initiation
5. Behavior Changes
Administrators should:
Establish the school as a neutral ground and
adopt a “no-tolerance” policy
Distinguish between youth misbehavior and
delinquent or criminal acts
 Cooperate with other social agencies
Create mechanism for mediating student
conflicts
Inter-Agency Cooperation - schools
should have a collaboration with other
agencies to make it an orderly and safe
environment.
Teachers should:
 Treat all students fairly and consistently
 Incorporate gang issues into class lessons
Establish good lines of communication with
parents/caregivers
Be aware of community resources that are
available
Guidance Counselor - a designated
person who gives counseling
programs to the students and
teachers.
Advisor/Advisee System

The teacher /advisor’s primary role is to

work individually with students like a
guidance counselor. Advisors become
mentors.
A friend , advocate, and a person whom
the student can talk freely about school
problems and for its solution.
Three Basic Counseling Activities
1. Group Counseling
2. Individual Counseling
3. Parent Conference
The Role of the Guidance Counselor
1.Become attaches to a team and assume an
advisor responsibility

2.Function as a school referral agent for

problems identified by the advisors and faculty

3.Conduct diagnostic work beyond that possible

for teachers to do
4.Administer and supervised the
advancement program

5. Provide and direct staff development

activities in the technique of advisement

6.Assist the teacher in establishing and

maintaining a good class/student/personnel
record system
Student Services
- includes all of those specials support
function outside of the curricular and co-
curricular offerings that helps on the
development of the students. It also provide
technical services and additional professional
insights.
Student Referral System
- have a number of specialist to meet the
needs of the students. Guidance Counselor
is an appropriate referral agents to
determine needs for the service.
Principal's Role:
 The principal is the person in the middle.
Everything that goes on in and around the
school is the responsibility of the principal.
Recognizes a responsibility to continually be
aware of students and teachers needs.
Thank You!!!