Discipline Answers

QUESTION:
What do you do if you have a problem with a child on the second day of school, before you’ve introduced the Hierarchy levels?
RESPONSE:
Don’t forget that Step One of the Teaching Model is Classroom Management. By proactively teaching specific procedures for everything you want your students to do, you will be able to deal with [...]

QUESTION:
I’m a first grade teacher. While I totally agree that Discipline without Stress is the best way to go, I have some concerns about the developmental readiness of children for being able to operate at the Democracy level. I seem to recall from my Ed. Psych. class that this level of behavior was ‘normally’ [...]

QUESTION:
I am very new to the DwStress mailring. I’ll be a 2nd year teacher this coming school year and will be implementing this system in my classroom. I did have a concern about grades. Would you please review Dr. Marshall’s views on grades and how they are related to competition? If he discourages grades, [...]

QUESTION:
Does anyone know if DwStress is ever implemented in high school? I teach high school Leadership classes and I think high schoolers need these things even more immediately than little ones. The real world is going to require self-discipline of them, real soon! Raising their responsibility is exactly what high school kids need. Most [...]

QUESTION:
I have often been tempted to order the Discipline without Stress book. What has held me back is my school’s requirement that we use the same discipline plan throughout the department (in my case, 4th through 6th grades.).
The department has the same rules: (1) Be respectful (2) Be obedient (3) Be honest [...]

QUESTION:
I really like the idea of sending home a daily behavior report to parents. Now that I am using DISCIPLINE without STRESS, I am thinking that I would like to have my students give themselves a discipline mark at the end of each day. They could mark themselves as having operated on [...]

QUESTION:
Most of my students have serious behavior problems and disorders. Many days I have had desks thrown at me and have had students try to hit me. To be totally honest, I don’t see how I could use a loving internal discipline system that asks students to just THINK about what they are [...]

QUESTION:
I’ve been using DISCIPLINE without STRESS for a few months now and my students seem to understand about the four levels of behavior. Generally their behavior is acceptable, but they aren’t operating on Level D all the time yet. What can I do about this?
RESPONSE:
Surprising as it might seem, having all students [...]

QUESTION:
I have some parents who don’t like that “D” behavior is better behavior than “A.” My students get letter grades for conduct and a few parents have a difficult time with D being good in the classroom but not on the report card. Can you help me with this?
DR. MARSHALL’S RESPONSE:
This is a common [...]

QUESTION:
I found out about Dr. Marshall’s DISCIPLINE without STRESS on the Internet when I visited a primary teacher’s classroom website. I noticed that although this teacher used DwStress, there was also a “behavior board” in the classroom where the students’ behavior was noted when they acted up. Certain misbehaviour was followed by [...]