As a child, I was guided in different ways. If I acted up, I got a spanking. If I was good, then I got rewarded. I believe that children should be taught with positive behaviors. If a child acts up, don’t jump down their throat, talk to them. If a child hits, I remove them from the setting and talk to them about why we…
Steer recognises that ‘a clear and consistent approach is essential for teachers and parents, but this needs to be balanced with a recognition that it is the nature of childhood that it is a period when mistakes are made and lessons learned.’ Mistakes made is the key point here and ‘Without opportunities for restoration, punishment really can damage relationships’ (Hook & Vass, 2002). The `Yellow card` idea mentioned in the Steer Report appears to be an effective way of doing this.…
For confidentiality reasons I will name the children Clare, Molly and Mary, in my placement the children are allowed to express their feelings freely. In my classroom the children are all set different activities to do that allow them to express how they feel. Activities such as the home corner, painting or even circle time. Each of these activities shows how the children react and express how they are feeling. When children are in the home corner playing with the dolls, they can act out what their parents are doing at home. Sometimes it could be good but other times the children could act out an aggressive argument. Children could be re-acting what happens in the house or what they have seen in someone else house. Children seem to always copy what a parent or older sibling does and Albert Bandura showed this in his experiment. His experiment was called the bobo doll theory, Albert had done hundreds of studies but the bobo doll theory is the one that stands out amongst the others. Albert made a video on the bobo doll and in the video was a female student beating up the bobo doll. The student would hit and kick the bobo doll and would hit it with a tiny hammer and sit on it while calling it aggressive names. The video was showed to kindergartners and they were sent into the room with the bobo doll and tiny hammers. The children basically beat the day lights out of the doll by kicking, punching and hitting it with the tiny hammers. In other ways the children just imitated what they saw the student doing in the video. Albert then showed the children a video of the student caring and being nice to the doll and he sent the…
Mitchell, Patrick. "Physical punishment and why kids are better off without it."Children 's Voice Magazine July-Aug. 2007: 19. Academic OneFile. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.…
The “rules and consequences” face is the most dominant face of discipline that a teacher may use towards a student that is misbehaving. In my classroom, I am firm with rules and became accustomed to tough disciplinary figures while living in a household with my grandparents for majority of my childhood. Corporal punishment and strong authoritarian figures were an everyday reality for me growing up. Though it was tough for me during those times, I appreciate the tough love at this stage in my life for it made me a productive and hardworking…
During my time at PRISM (Pupil Referral Unit) I worked with students who had been excluded from school due to their behaviour. These lessons were planned and set up by myself to help the young people obtain stabilisation in their lives by expressing creativity alongside their English and Maths studies. A great deal of my time here was spent working closely with both the triangle group (11-16) and 18+ SEN group to manage their behaviour in a calm and collective way so that learning could continue in the…
Considering the fact that there are all different kinds of children with different needs, it is important to know how to manage and teach them the behavioral discipline needed in order for them to grow up and develop as best they can. What I’ve learned from reading these articles is that it is highly important to show children of different characteristics/needs, the means of positive discipline. Also, doing this appropriately and in the correct manners is key in helping children “reclaim” their classroom, as one article states. I found it interesting to also learn and read about all the different ways to enforce and apply effective guidance techniques when working with children.…
Our research project will determine if Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) will have an impact on students and to what fidelity does PBIS need to be implemented within a classroom. Our research focused on a group of 6th grade students that have varied discipline behaviors. We will be specifically focusing on the chronic unwanted behaviors, which include disruption, defiance, calling out, and distracting other students. The research project focused on how PBIS strategies change classroom climate.…
My time as a Younglife leader stands out to me as most rewarding. Knowing that the best things in life take time, I greatly cherish the relationships and transformations molded during that experience. Over the course of three years, with countless camps, soccer games, and conversations, I gained the privilege of speaking into the lives of my middle school students. Nothing was more fulfilling than the chance to offer words of reinforcement and guidance whenever they approached me seeking advice about their worries and struggles. My faith gives me an inherent joy, but the greater reward has been sharing that joy and source of strength with others. I now understand how being a friend who thoughtfully listens and encourages can sometimes be enough…
With sports, school and the multitudes of other extracurricular activities, this generation of children and teens are scheduled to their limit. And many of them are stressed and unsure how to balance their many roles. For parents who have children who are multi-taskers, mindfulness training helps them to learn how to focus on and enjoy the moment…instead of thinking about tomorrow’s test or game.…
Education is commonly viewed as teaching specific curriculum, but when it comes to young children they need to be taught more than just basic school subject material. Whether it be in school or at home, teachers and parents have the role of guiding children and encouraging them to expand their growth through skills. Social skills are highly prominent because interactions with others occur every day. According to Viega, Neto, and Rieffe (2016), “Free play is the primary context for positive-social interactions, but it also enables children to act out aggressive tensions, helping them to regulate these aggressive feelings and behaviors” (p.50). Not only does interacting with their peers make the children more socially stable, but free play also acts as a release of unwanted aggression that commonly builds up in young kids and becomes a disruption. They are enhancing their communication skills and learning the importance of…
Today’s challenge is to find ways to nourish the spirit of the “world’s children” in our lives and teach them skills for dealing with the ever-increasing demands of a stressful and complicated world, and life itself.…
Once I had read, Runaway Train, for class and after discussing it I learned there was a lot of events in this story that really made me realize how important it is to identify children’s triggers, how children deal with bullying and how children handle their own emotions. What stood out to me most among these topics that I noticed were discussed throughout this story was how different situations for children can trigger them to act out and not handle their own behavior or emotions. So far in our class we have discussed all these topics and have related them all back to behavior and emotions. An accurate example from the story that shows this occurring is between the character Trent and his own school going against him.…
Violence-prone children don’t consider the consequences when they lash out. Through calm dialogue we can help children understand the effects of their actions. There are two approaches to considering consequences that work well. The first is feedforward; it helps children to understand beforehand what consequences might result from their aggression. A second approach is to let children experience firsthand the result of their actions, when it’s possible to do so without promoting further violence. The modeling effect is very powerful, and one major factor in violence is low self-esteem. There are four aspects of low self-esteem: virtue, power, significance, and competence. Virtue is a word that evokes other concepts, such as integrity, morality, honesty, character, decency-all concepts that relate to “being good”. Dominating power differs from personal power as aggressiveness differs from assertiveness. An aggressive person just pushes forward, with little regard for other people. In contrast, an assertive person stands up for what he or she needs and expresses those needs and desires in a way that recognizes and respects…
Another innovative alternative to punitive discipline is positive behavioral interventions and supports. This student-oriented directive “offers a more comprehensive approach to minimizing school disruption by incorporating proactive alternatives, such as positive discipline, school management, and a tiered approach to addressing the increasing behavioral needs of students” (Fenning & Rose 2007), while concurrently teaching students appropriate alternatives to inappropriate behavior. The objective behind this method of discipline is to reinforce appropriate behaviors, as well as setting and enforcing clear rules that can be easily understood by students, thereby teaching students how to interact appropriately with their teachers and peers (Fenning & Rose 2007). Positive behavioral interventions and supports considers the reasoning behind any…