Discipline Answers

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?
RESPONSE FROM Tammy
Shared on the DISCIPLINE without STRESS Mailring:
I’d [...]

QUESTION:
Language is my biggest stumbling block. I know what I want to say but on the spur of the moment I often find it hard to put into words. As I develop new habits with this discipline approach, I sometimes feel a bit tongue-tied. Can you give me some examples of questions that don’t [...]

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 [...]

Through our use of the DISCIPLINE without STRESS approach, my teaching partner and I have come to understand that positive changes in behavior are more likely to occur when we prompt students to think about how they choose to operate in their lives. More and more often, we now practice the DISICPLINE without STRESS Principle [...]

QUESTION:
I am required to give each of my students a grade for behavior–either a 1, 2 or 3. This doesn’t seem to mesh well with DISCIPLINE without STRESS, since this approach has a focus of internalizing responsibility. I would prefer that my students give themselves a behavior grade. How can I use [...]