Preventive Discipline

Preventive and Support Discipline Preventive Discipline is important in the classroom because it is an effective way to prevent from having to give a consequence to a student or students. Most teacher do not want to give some form of consequence to their student or students, but it may be necessary. Support Discipline is useful because it helps the student refocus on what they are supposed to be doing. Some students just need a little reminder to stay on task, and Support Discipline techniques help keep the student on task. The Differential Reinforcement technique can be very useful because the teacher is drawing positive attention to a student that is doing something good instead of drawing attention to one student that is doing something