How can procedures be used when students misbehave?
QUESTION:
I’m trying to get a handle on this whole concept of guided choices and procedures. I guess I don’t really understand what a procedure is or how you would use a procedure when a student is misbehaving. Can you give me an example?
DR. MARSHALL’S RESPONSE:
Teaching procedures is teaching expectations.
Here is an example:
Rather than [...]
I need help to establish procedures in the computer lab.
QUESTION:
I am a Computer specialist working with over 500 students a week. I see most students only once a week for 45 minutes at a time. I’d like to try using Discipline without Stress. From the Teaching Model I know I should begin by establishing classroom management procedures. Can you help me with this?
RESPONSE:
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Difficulties on the first day of school
QUESTION:
I have a first grade girl who, no matter how many times she is asked about what level she is on and how she can change to Level C/D, will not change her behavior. At what point would you give a think sheet? It was a VERY long first day of school!
RESPONSE:
During the first [...]
Using DWS in Preschool with Students Who Have Special Needs
Posted by Teri Gibson, a member of the Discipline without Stress mailring.
I have just begun using DWS this year with my 4 yr. old special needs preschool classes. I absolutely love it. No, my class is not perfect. No, DWS does not solve all behavior problems. What it does is this: For the first time, [...]
An example of developing procedures proactively to avoid problems.
The more I use the Discipline without Stress approach, the more I appreciate that Step One of the Teaching Model is key to the whole plan.
We’ve just started a series of swimming lessons at our local Community Center for all the primary students in our school. This year I decided to be more proactive [...]
The most effective procedures are those that are carefully planned and explicitly taught.
Recently, the following post was shared on the Kinderkorner mailring by Marybeth Quig-Hartman, who generously allowed me to reprint it here. Note the amount of “teacher thinking” that Marybeth puts into developing her routines and the amount of class time she devotes to the teaching of procedures in the beginning of the school year.
Such diligence [...]
My class meetings are a disaster!
QUESTION:
I teach two 8th grade “behavior modification classes,” mainly composed of students sent to us from alternative school or juvenile hall. I like the suggestion in your discipline book about holding class meetings but the ones I’ve tried so far have been a disaster. There is no way that I know of to keep [...]
How do you teach them to follow a certain procedure?
QUESTION:
I am a student teacher in a 3rd grade class. My college says that you should never start a lesson with “Take out your math book.” Okay… then how do you get the kids to take out their math books? My other question is how do you get them to do it right away? It usually takes 3 [...]
Tell me how procedures are used in a discipline situation.
QUESTION:
I don’t understand how the teaching of procedures can be used in a discipline situation. Can you give me an example.
RESPONSE:
The following anecdote is an example of how a Discipline without Stress teacher dealt with misbehavior by introducing some new procedures.
BEING SELF-DISCIPLINED WITH PENCILS!
Having used DwStress for several years now, I understand [...]
I don’t understand the difference between expectations and rules.
QUESTION:
I’m a middle school art teacher. I’ve just read Dr. Marshall’s DWS book. I want to use it in my teaching but I’m having trouble understanding expectations vs. rules. The two sound the same to me just that they have different labels. I’m not sure if I need to convert what I have used in the [...]
