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Looking for suggestions to decrease the negative behavior of this student
I'm looking for some input/insights to teachers who use a color system for discipline--beyond the red, yellow, green card system. I'd like to hear from people who use at least 5 colors and how it works in their class. Thanks in advance!
Durante Neal’s Georgia public high school coach knocked his eyeball out of its socket to punish Durante for fighting with another student. The coach hit Durante in the eye with a weight lock, which caused his eye to pop out of its socket, lost forever. Cedric Napolean, a 14-year-old autistic special education student, was smothered to death by hi...See MoreDurante Neal’s Georgia public high school coach knocked his eyeball out of its socket to punish Durante for fighting with another student. The coach hit Durante in the eye with a weight lock, which caused his eye to pop out of its socket, lost forever. Cedric Napolean, a 14-year-old autistic special education student, was smothered to death by his special education teacher’s “restraint,” a form of “corporal punishment” for misbehavior. Cedric was placed face down on the floor, and when he struggled, his teacher sat on his shoulders to keep him still. Cedric repeatedly stated that he could not breathe, and when ignored, suffocated to death on the floor of the Texas public school that was responsible to teach him the skills necessary to become a happy and productive member of society. An interim principal at the School of Excellence in Education in San Antonio, Texas, “punished” an 18-year- old senior high school woman for a technical school rule violation by forcing her onto the floor, holding her feet up high above her head and shoulders with the help of two other public employees, and beating her with a four foot wooden board named “Old Thunder.” Jessica Serafin was hospitalized, traumatized, and unable ever to return to high school. Her emotional pain and humiliation continue to haunt her. These stories sound medieval, but occurred in 1998, 2002, and 2004, respectively. All of the public school employees’ actions were defended as “restraint” or “corporal punishment” employed against students in accordance with school policy.
These and many other instances of child abuse at the hands of public school employees motivated Carolyn McCarthy (D- NY) to take action. This week, McCarthy will introduce a bill in the House to deny federal funding to schools that use “corporal punishment.” Twenty (mostly southern) schools continue to beat schoolchildren in schools every day in America, a fact that is largely unknown and shocking to many Americans.
Since the inception of this country, educators have slapped, spanked, kicked, and beaten schoolchildren with wooden paddles, baseball bats, boots, books, weightlifting tools, and numerous other objects. Children have been severely beaten, hospitalized, permanently maimed, and killed under color of state law in the name of “education.” But in 2010, America is lagging behind the industrialized world by failing to recognize children’s right to be free of physical punishment. In 1783, Poland banned school corporal punishment, and virtually the entire industrialized world followed, with scant few clinging to the notion that the government may appropriately beat schoolchildren. Yet, in America, children are the only citizens who may be corporally punished legally – even convicted murderers are protected from corporal punishment in the prison system. Every United Nations country other than the United States and Somalia has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits school corporal punishment. The fact that the United States is bedfellows with Somalia on a human rights issue is frightening. Perhaps worse, Department of Education statistics prove that disabled students and black schoolchildren are disproportionately whacked, rendering the government employees’ conduct not just abusive, but discriminatory.
There is no excuse for beating children to train them for civic duty. Forty years of research demonstrates beyond any rational doubt that corporal punishment is not just ineffective, but counterproductive to its intended purpose. The studies prove that corporal punishment causes: increased violent and other antisocial behavior; a decrease in IQ test scores; impaired self-esteem, empathy for others, and respect for authority; an increased likelihood of drug and alcohol abuse; and dysfunctional interpersonal relationships. For these reasons, every national child health and education organization opposes corporal punishment in education, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the America Public Health Organization, the National Association for State Boards of Education, and the National Education Association.
Americans everywhere should support McCarthy’s bill to safeguard all American children from beatings at the hands of the government. Physical violence is not an American value and it should not be taught to our children by the public employees entrusted with their care.
Deana Pollard Sacks, B.A. University of Washington (1986); J.D. University of Southern California (1989); LL.M., University of California, Berkeley (1999). Sacks is a Visiting Professor of Law at Florida State University, an Advisory Board Member of EPOCH-USA and PTAVE, and the author of State Actors Beating Children: A Call For Judicial Relief, 42 U.C. Davis Law Review 1165 (2009).
Discipline was my weakness this year for sure!! Does anyone know of a book that introduces rules? Not a cutesy one that talks about first day nerves, I need a read aloud that will help me as I introduce class rules. Does anyone know of any they could recommend? I teach Kinder. I'm going to post on the K board as well, thanks in advance!
by Diane McNelley
Jun 14, 2010
If you are having trouble with discipline in the classroom, I suggest reading this easy to read manual that focuses on real life situations not that text book theory that we studied in college. The name of the book is Secrets of Classroom Behavior Management by Mamie Jefferson-Hill You can find it on Amazon.com for only $10.00
by Rod Sparer
Jun 30, 2010
When I taught a short while back I didn't have the best discipline plan or any support. I really don't think discipline and classroom management was stressed enough in my teacher education. Now and then my professors brought up the fact that teachers have to have good classroom management, but they didn't go into serious detail like they did lesson...See MoreWhen I taught a short while back I didn't have the best discipline plan or any support. I really don't think discipline and classroom management was stressed enough in my teacher education. Now and then my professors brought up the fact that teachers have to have good classroom management, but they didn't go into serious detail like they did lesson plans. As we all know you can have the best lesson plans on earth, but if you don't have the management skills, forget about it.
Now that I am returning to the classroom, I'm curious what discipline plans have worked for folks and how they manage their classes. I was going over Lee Canters Assertive disciple, which has some good ideas. He suggests you point out the positive rather than negative. I think most discipline and management systems agree on respecting students, praising good behavior, and setting expectations early. However, when a child acts up Canter would suggest you might say, "Billy I need you to sit in your sit so you can finish your lesson". If Billy doesn't comply the teacher would write his name on the board and say nothing. If the behavior continues you might put a check by his name. Then perhaps if the behavior still continues, you would add a check and say " billy you have a choice, you can either remain in your seat quietly for the rest of class or you can spend 30 minutes with me after school today". If Billy continues to act up he gets a third check and the teacher calls home in class to arrange detention that day.
This sounds great but there are a few problems I see. Canter suggest you call the kid's home and tell a parent Billy has to stay 30mins after school. Canter says if the parent doesn't agree or makes excuses then tell the parent "Billy either can stay with me for 30mins today or an hour on whatever day is arranged. It's much more effective if the punishment is on the same day". Another problem I see with this is that sometimes the numbers for parents do not work or they are not available. Then what? Also, what if the parent just isn't cooperative? Furthermore, what if you have several troublemakers in one class and multiply that by 5 or 6 classes. Then do they all stay after the same day? It could almost turn into a party for them. Sometimes it can be hard to phone parents during class and if they hear a rowdy class they will think you have no control.
I encountered issues like this at my last school, but in truth there was no teacher support and teacher authority was undermined by administrators. It was not unusual to have several major troublemakers in one class. Would Canter's approach be appropriate for for ages k-2?
I think this could possibly be more effective if the teacher sends home a beginning of the year letter or contract stating the discipline process and if children misbehave in class they have to stay after school for some type of detention the same day. That way parents have a heads up and they can't complain that they didn't know.
Suggestions? What plans do you use?
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