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Transformative Teaching: Beyond Discipline for Empowering Student Responsibility

Explore the student-directed management style of Beyond Discipline by Alfie Kohn. Learn to create a safe, unconditional community in the classroom, where students are empowered to control their behavior. Encourage social and moral development through a focus on learning, values, and inclusivity.

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Transformative Teaching: Beyond Discipline for Empowering Student Responsibility

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  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

  13. Go to this website and read… • http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/chat/chat031.shtml • Following your reading go to our discussion board on Blackboard and share your opinion of text that impacted your thinking about Beyond Discipline and classroom management.

  14. Second trip to discussion board… • Read responses made by classmates and respond to one or more giving feedback to their responses.

  15. Write a reflection of Beyond Discipline and put in digital drop • Ideas and suggestions you find appealing and compatible with your personality and philosophy • Ideas and suggestions with which you disagree • Your appraisal of the model • its practicality and • ease of implementation

  16. References • Charles, C. (2005). Building classroom discipline (8th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education, INC. • Levin, J. & Nolan, J. (2007). Principles of classroom management: A professional decision-making model (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education, INC. • Manning, M. & Bucher, K. (2007). Classroom management models, applications, and cases (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NY: Pearson Education, INC.

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