10-15 students are arriving late – every day!
QUESTION:
I am currently in a situation where I am the permanent teacher, taking the place of another teacher. I have been in this position for about 3 weeks now, and I have noticed that many students arrive late every day. Not just one or two but 10-15 students are arriving late to my class! [...]
Looking for a quote to encourage good choices
QUESTION:
I want to make an banner for my room. Do you have a good quote that would encourage students to make good choices?
DR. MARSHALL’S RESPONSE:
Here’s one I used in my classes:
Responsibility finds a way.
Irresponsibility finds excuses.
First day of school – having trouble asking questions!
QUESTION:
Today was the first day of school and I had quite a hard time with my first graders. I’m trying not to give consequences but my students did not respond very well when I asked them to identify their levels. I also had a hard time coming up with questions to ask them when they were [...]
Dealing with an uncooperative student
In our second year of working with DWS, my teaching partner and I had a student with special needs. Chronologically he was old enough to be in grade three but emotionally and cognitively grade one was a much better placement for him. At that time I wrote about one experience with this boy that taught [...]
Sharing My Latest DWS Success!
Posted by J.E., a member of the Discipline without Stress mailring.
Here is my latest success:
Last Friday, three third graders left their homeroom in route to my class (science) and on the way, chose to yell and scream and play an impromptu game of tag. (At my school, we don’t walk the kids from class [...]
It seems that every year my teaching partner and I introduce the DWS Hierarchy a bit differently from the year before. As we’ve become more familiar with the bigger picture of using DWS throughout the course of an full school year, we worry less and less about the initial introduction. Over the years, we’ve experienced [...]
Using DWS to deal with younger siblings visiting in the classroom
Throughout this summer, I’ve been emailing back and forth with one teacher in my province who wants to learn how the reading program my partner and I have developed, works in our grade one classroom. She is also quite interested in a program our K-6 school has instituted called “The Whole School Read,” in which [...]
Choice-Response Thinking – In a Poem!
Recently I came across a poem by Portia Nelson. It struck me that this poem sums up why I love teaching with the Discipline without Stress approach so much!
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS
by Portia [...]
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 [...]
What if a student won’t acknowledge Level B?
QUESTION:
I once had a grade 8 student who said, “It doesn’t matter what level I say I’m on, you’re always going
to find a way to tell me that I’m on an unacceptable level.”
I’m wondering what a teacher might say in response to something like that?
A response from Tammy
Shared on the DWS Mailring:
I’d probably [...]
