Beyond Discipline

1. Beyond Discipline Alfie Kohn Classroom Management EDUC 360

2. Beyond Discipline • operates under the premise: • Students are responsible for their own behavior • Students are capable of controlling their own behavior

3. Beyond discipline looks like • A student-directed management style • Teachers allowing students to experience natural consequences • Absence of physical or psychological punishments

4. Beyond discipline • Does not promote removing student with misbehavior from the classroom • Creates a unconditional community • Designs classroom as a safe place

5. Beyond discipline • Promotes creating a sense of belonging • Teaches unconditionally • Has high expectations with unconditional acceptance • Sees student separate from behavior

6. Kohn promotes… • Working with children to encourage their social and moral development which means…

7. Utilizing children’s need… • To be able to make their own decisions • To belong • To learn and apply learning

8. So focus on… • Learning • Classroom environment • Set of values vs rules • Natural curiosity and need to learn

9. Community environment has • No competition • No rewards • Words of encouragement • Respect • Sense of belonging • Class meetings

10. When misbehavior happens… • Focus on curriculum • What is the purpose of the task? • Is the learner constructing new information?

11. Emphasize a curriculum based on • Students’ affinities • Opportunities to construct new knowledge • Working with peers • Group projects • Multiple learning styles

12. Remember students are… • Compassionate • Sympathetic • Courteous • Curious • Constructivists creating their own knowledge