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CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT. Peggy C. Hawse, Coordinator RESA VIII. Positive Discipline: Meaning Business. Being Consistent You are either consistent or you are not Consistency and Action Never make a rule that you are not willing to enforce EVERY time Discipline before Instruction
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CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT Peggy C. Hawse, Coordinator RESA VIII
Positive Discipline:Meaning Business • Being Consistent • You are either consistent or you are not • Consistency and Action • Never make a rule that you are not willing to enforce EVERY time • Discipline before Instruction • Instruction might be dearer to you, but it is second on your list of priorities
Meaning Business: Part 1Calm is Strength, Upset is Weakness • Little disruptions are the eternal enemies of time-on-task • Understanding stress • Fight-flight reflex; calm is the opposite of fight-flight • When you are calm, you think; when you are upset, you react • Breathe; take a relaxing breath • Play your hand one card at a time • Time is on your side • They fold or they raise the stakes
Remember… • Discipline management in the classroom is first and foremost emotional. You can not manage another person’s behavior until you manage your own.
Meaning Business: Part 2The Body Language of Commitment • Relax and slow down • Show you are serious • Move slowly, “the turn” • Point your toes • Make eye contact • Relax your hands and shoulders • Relax your jaw • Take another relaxing breath
Body Language Continued… • Body language as conversation • What if they don’t go back to work?
Meaning Business: Part 3Follow Through and Pseudo-compliance • Noncompliance and pseudo-compliance • Move the body, not the mouth • Silly talk • Take a couple steps • The body language poker game • Walk • Visual prompt • Verbal prompt • Monitor with praise • Follow through • High Stakes Poker
Meaning Business: Part 4Dealing with Backtalk T: Joe, I would like you to turn around and get some work done. J: I wasn’t doing anything. T: You have been talking this whole period, and I want it to stop. J: No, I wasn’t. T: Every time I look up, I see you talking to Serena. J: She was just asking me a question. T: I don’t care who was asking who what. When I look up, I expect to see you doing your own work. J: Yeah, but…
Dealing with Backtalk continued… • The first rule of backtalk • It takes one fool to backtalk. • It takes two fools to make a conversation out of it. • The second rule of backtalk • Open your mouth and slit your throat.
Dealing with Backtalk continued… T: Joe, I would like you to bring your chair around and get some work done. J: I wasn’t doing anything. T: (silence) J: Well, I wasn’t. T: (silence) J: Well… T: (silence) J: (silence)
Dealing with Backtalk continued… • A comedy routine • Student is the clown; teacher is the straight man • If students want to backtalk, at least make them do all the work. Don’t do half of it for them! • Opening your mouth is like throwing gasoline on a fire.
Dealing with Backtalk continued… • Nasty backtalk • Student is risking it all. • Responding to backtalk • Short term response • Long term response • Hard for the student to blame someone else when he is the only one out of line.
Meaning Business: Part 5Exceptions to the Rule • Emotional: calm is strength • Mental: clarity, commitment, and consistency • Physical: the body language of Meaning Business HOWEVER the opposite of what we expect happens…
Exceptions to the Rulecontinued… Strange Responses: • Needy Students • Was it me, or was it them? • Any reinforcement will be reinforcing • You must be very guarded • Explosive students • All with a history of physical abuse • Parry reflex is a response to ward off a blow to the head
Exceptions to the Rulecontinued… • Regulating intensity • Calm in the eye of the storm • When in doubt, do nothing • If you are calm, you will have a calming effect • Gently motion toward the seat • When meaning business fails
What rules do you need? • If there are no rules displayed in the classroom OR • If the rules do not fit your situation/needs; then have two only • Do not talk when I am talking. • Do not be disrespectful.
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