Sunday, March 22, 2009

Discipline Techniques

There are many proficiency that teachers can use in the classrooms to catch the students’ attention and thus students can learn and understand about what is teaching. Discipline techniques concerned about students’ emotions are prefered. For instance: Focusing, Direct Instruction, Monitoring, Modeling, Humanistic I-messages, Positive Discipline, and Environmental Control.[1] These methods represent many classrooms’ aspects referring to students and teachers’ attitudes. What we should be aware of is students' behavior in order to be able to use the best proficiency in the classroom. In fact, there are a lot of techniques that are useful in some many cases, but we can’t use them in every place that we are teaching, because each student is different and therefore each school has a different culture.

Using Assertive Discipline isn’t good for children due to this idea is about authoritarianism. It contradicts to the idea of being worried in what students want. Authoritarianism is a form of government (social control) in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).[2] Obviously, we can’t either to do what students want but we need to respect their thoughts. So, what’s the best method that we can use in the classroom? We don’t have techniques 100% effectives, most of the time we do need to create new ones depending on our students and contexts.



[1] Budd Churchward, 11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline. Discipline By Design… The Honor Level System. 2009. http://www.honorlevel.com/x47.xml

[2] http://www.wordreference.com/definition/authoritarianism