Discipline Strategies & Interventions for the Classroom

1. Discipline Strategies & Interventions for the Classroom Your Guide- Debbee Straub Please group set yourselves in groups of 4

2. Group NORMS (5) • Treat each other with dignity and respect. • Be genuine with each other about ideas, challenges, and feelings. • Trust each other. • Have confidence that issues discussed will be kept in confidence. • Group members will practice a consistent commitment to share information and participate. • Listen very carefully & be open-minded to others’ ideas. • Respect and Support one another. Develop a sense of team • Speak and act as a team, be inclusive. • Be honest   • Keep a sense of humor  • Limit distractions (cell phones–unless special issue–turn off/put on vibrate) • Emphasize respectful behavior when we are apart 

3. THE FOUR AGREEMENTS Use the Four Agreements: • Be impeccable with your word.  • Don’t take anything personally. • Be aware of internal assumptions. • Always do your best.

4. Introductions (15) • A little about Debbee • A little about you with Interviews • Find a person to interview. • Both will interview the other and present • Ask the following and when interview is over present each other • What is your name? • Where do you teach? How long? • What are your hobbies? • What was your summer highlight this year?

5. Learners Inventory (10) • Knowing your students & how they learn to know how to engage the class as a whole • Stand-up • Sticky note graffiti

6. Discipline Scenarios (15) • Group Scenarios • Share out – • What will your group do? Explain

7. Foundation for Positive Discipline in the classroom (15) • Relationship Building/Connection/Class Meetings/Life & Social Skills • Establish and Consistently follow Expectations, Rules, Norms, & Procedures • Allow student voice • Allow time to establish at the beginning of the year • Allow time to teach and reinforce • Effective long term & short term • Model/Mirror • Reinforce

8. Foundation for Positive Discipline in the classroom • Student Engagement/Movement/Culturally Responsive Teaching/Group Work • Seating • Positive/Respectful Environment (Kind yet Firm) • High Expectations for all • Intrinsic Rewards • Positive Discipline Strategies Yield Quick Results • Stroke, Sting, Stroke Strategy

9. Break for 10 minutes

10. Problems in the Classroom (10) • Group List

11. Characteristics, Qualities & Gifts (10) • A group list of what you would like to instill in your students.

12. Classroom Discipline (15) • STICKY NOTE THOUGHTS • What works for your class? (yellow) • What are your challenges? (pink) • What are your goals for this school year? (green) • Share ~ partner/small group/large group (post on posters… gallery walk)

13. DEVELOP CLASS NORMS • EXPECTATIONS • RULES • PROCEDURES • NORMS FOR SPECIAL ACTIVITIES (I.E. GROUP WORK, SPECIAL GUESTS, VIDEOS, ETC..) INDIVIDUAL/SHARE • HOW WILL YOU GIVE STUDENT VOICE? • HOW DO YOU DISPLAY IN YOUR CLASSROOM?

14. Relationships • Building Community & Relationships in your classroom • Group come up with 2 activities to use • Large Group Share & Demo

15. Break for 10 minutes

16. Tips/Reminders Set The Tone and Atmosphere the Classroom (10) • Tricks to calming the class • Getting 100% Attention • Share your tricks that work in your group • Share out to larger group

17. Basic Principles For Positive Discipline Outcomes (15) • Establish a school-wide behavior support system • Assist students with resiliency skills • Assist students with positive social skills • Develop & follow administrative procedures and policies for behavior challenges • Provide prevention, intervention and postvention. • Teacher is conscientious about verbal communication. • Teacher is aware of nonverbal communications.

18. Basic Principles For Positive Discipline Outcomes (10) GROUP TALK/SHARE/LIST- • What do you have in place at your school? (PBIS or ???) • What works? • What does not?

19. Quotes “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” ~ Plato

20. “Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” ~Jane Nelson

21. Positive Discipline Teaching Fellows Institute @ Charlotte • Part 1 (28:57) • Part 2(37:57) • Edutopia’s 10 Big Ideas to Improve Public Education (18 min)

22. Resources • http://faculty.washington.edu/dcheney/EDSPE503ClassroomManagement/Readings/NelsenChapter.pdf • http://www.tvtip.org/resources/DebbieCMresources/A9_Seven%20Models%20of%20Discipline.pdf • https://www.jmu.edu/kinesiology/hpainstitute/documents/Positive%20and%20Not%20So%20Positive%20Discipline%20Techniques.pdf

23. Resources • http://www.edutopia.org/classroom-management-relationships-strategies-tips • http://unesco.org.pk/education/icfe/resources/res10.pdf • http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/specedu/beh/pdf/6.pdf • https://readingrecovery.org/images/pdfs/Conferences/NC08/Handouts/Hayes_Remarkably_Effective_Classroom_Strategies.pdf

24. Resources • http://www.odessa.edu/dept/govt/dille/brian/courses/1100orientation/learningstyleinventory_survey.pdf • Teachingfellowsinstitute.org