Friday, February 20, 2015
Journal 3
Please share with your group your ideas on a classroom management strategy regarding consequences for behavior. For example, a clothespin you move up and down on colors (a common one I see in the schools...hint...it is not always a effective). Then, indicate what possible pitfalls you might see to the strategy and how you could avoid those pitfalls. For example, a child refuses to move his/her clip when asked...
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A consequence strategy that I have in mind is to go over the rules with the students and ask them what they think would be effective consequences if they broke the rules. In this way, the students are involved and won't be as inclined to fight about consequences when they break the rules because they will have had a say in the consequences.
ReplyDeleteI think something that I would like to implement no matter what is the 1-5 system. On the first occurrence of rule breaking, I would warn the student. 2nd, I would call their name. 3rd, I would practice proximity. 4th, I would put the student away from the rest of the group to do their work alone. And 5th, and only in severe situations, I would call in for help from administration. This could, however, have some pitfalls. If students don't care about any of the steps, then it won't be effective. This also requires me as the teacher to remember what step each student is on which could get confusing.
A consequence that I have in mind is to go over the rules at the beginning of the school year and what will happen when these rules are broken. I would do consequences in baby steps: warning, time out, writing a paragraph and have it signed by a parent, and detention. I wouldn't do all of this all at once. It would depend on the consequence for the bad behavior. Using all of these consequences at once would be wrong, ridiculous, and overwhelming. It wouldn't be fair to the students either. I would probably ask the student what he or she thinks the consequence should be. Only for emergencies or extreme bad behavior would make me think about calling a behavioral specialist, psychologist, or administrator for help.
ReplyDeleteDuring our class this week I really found what was interesting was the discussion on Thursday. In class we talked about various forms of "disciplinary" action in order to establish and attain classroom management. A great point that was brought up was the issue of a student with behavior problems. A solution was to give these types of students a "job". Give them an everyday task that gives them independence, belonging, and gratitude to help them feel purpose and focus. One fall back of this type of classroom management skill might be that, other students might recognize this seemed to be "favored" behavior and want special tasks and skills to do as well. It might become a little overwhelming to have so many students completing so many daily jobs.
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