http://disciplineanswers.com/serious-behavior-problems/ Discipline for Promoting Responsibility and Learning Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://disciplineanswers.com/serious-behavior-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-480 jan Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:44:09 +0000 http://disciplineanswers.com/index.php/most-of-my-students-have-serious-behavior-problems-i-don%e2%80%99t-see-how-i-could-use-a-loving-internal-discipline-system-that-asks-students-to-just-think-about-what-they-are-doing/#comment-480 I work in an urban enviroment where many of the children who are not special ed behave in the manner listed by Liz above. Our administration actually documents every vist made by a student and that number is tallied up at review time and held against the teacher. Naturally this leads to a fear based enviroment where "controlling" the children is the highest priority. My question is this=how do you keep disciplinary issues from taking so much time away from the instructional day? Are there shortcuts to managing poorly behaved kids so that one can actually teach? Thanks for your answers! I work in an urban enviroment where many of the children who are not special ed behave in the manner listed by Liz above. Our administration actually documents every vist made by a student and that number is tallied up at review time and held against the teacher. Naturally this leads to a fear based enviroment where “controlling” the children is the highest priority. My question is this=how do you keep disciplinary issues from taking so much time away from the instructional day? Are there shortcuts to managing poorly behaved kids so that one can actually teach? Thanks for your answers!

]]> http://disciplineanswers.com/serious-behavior-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Liz Barosh Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:37:43 +0000 http://disciplineanswers.com/index.php/most-of-my-students-have-serious-behavior-problems-i-don%e2%80%99t-see-how-i-could-use-a-loving-internal-discipline-system-that-asks-students-to-just-think-about-what-they-are-doing/#comment-6 I like your response to this question, but I need other strategies as well. I believe this question may have come from a Teacher of students with Emotional Disturbances. Here is my thought: many times administrators do not want these students up in their office where they continue to create chaos. I was told on one occasion by a very frustrated administrator that I need to handle my own discipline problems. I hadn't even sent the student up to the office, he went on his own accord with his friends in tow, because of a recess incident. As Special Educators, we are expected many times, to keep our discipline problems away from the office or the administrator, even if this involves hitting, throwing desks or other unsafe acts. This is due in part to an inability on the part of the administrator to know how to handle the student either. When parents of General Education students come strolling through the office and you have a student who is tearing papers off the office walls or throwing chairs over the administrator is embarrassed. They want the problem to go away,right away. Many Special Educators have been trained in Non-Violent Crisis Intervention methods, which are very helpful. But honestly, the unspoken expectation is that you don't send your discipline problems to the office. If you want confirmation of this, ask some other special educators. Thank you for your time and talents, Liz I like your response to this question, but I need other strategies as well. I believe this question may have come from a Teacher of students with Emotional Disturbances.
Here is my thought: many times administrators do not want these students up in their office where they continue to create chaos. I was told on one occasion by a very frustrated administrator that I need to handle my own discipline problems. I hadn’t even sent the student up to the office, he went on his own accord with his friends in tow, because of a recess incident.
As Special Educators, we are expected many times, to keep our discipline problems away from the office or the administrator, even if this involves hitting, throwing desks or other unsafe acts. This is due in part to an inability on the part of the administrator to know how to handle the student either. When parents of General Education students come strolling through the office and you have a student who is tearing papers off the office walls or throwing chairs over the administrator is embarrassed. They want the problem to go away,right away.
Many Special Educators have been trained in Non-Violent Crisis Intervention methods, which are very helpful. But honestly, the unspoken expectation is that you don’t send your discipline problems to the office. If you want confirmation of this, ask some other special educators.
Thank you for your time and talents,
Liz

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