Teaching Agriculture In Secondary Schools
AEE 535



Class 12:
Maintaining Discipline in the Classroom
Learning Objectives:
Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
    Describe different models of maintaining discipline.
    Choose appropriate steps to follow in dealing with student misbehavior
    Develop a discipline plan for a classroom.
    Explain the difference between school discipline and classroom discipline.
Instructional
Activities:

Take the Discipline Strategies pretest.

Read "Some Thoughts on Discipline" by the course instructor. This will provide a starting point for the lesson.

Several different discipline models or styles exist. There is a good summary of varying styles at http://www.adprima.com/assertive.htm. Go to this site and start with the link to "The Canter and Jones Models". This describes Assertive Discipline models. Then go to Dewey, Discipline, and Democracy by John Covaleskie (same web site) to read an essay that takes an opposing view. 

After reading both of these, click on http://www.honorlevel.com/stages.html to read about the Honor Level System: Discipline by Design by Budd Churchward. Churchward suggests that both Canter and Covaleskie are correct, but for different types of students.

Read the article in Educational Leadership titled "From Tourists to Citizens in the Classroom" by H. Jerome Freiberg.  To find the article, go to the NC State Libraries Homepage and click on E-journal Finder. Type in Educational Leadership as the journal title. Then search through Academic Search Elite.  Click the link for +1996, then Vol 54 Issue 1-Sep96. The article will be listed.

All teachers should anticipate that at some point they will have to deal with a discipline situation and should have a plan in place when this occurs. "Four Stages of Discipline" describes a plan for dealing with discipline problems when they occur. These four stages are described at: http://www.honorlevel.com/steps.html. Read the suggested steps—they may or may not work for you, but they are an example of a discipline plan. 

Kathleen Cotton summarizes the research on discipline in an article titled "Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline." The article also has some information that is more general in nature on the topic of classroom management. This article is found at the following url: http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html

School discipline has a definite effect on classroom discipline. Sometimes the two terms are used interchangeably. ERIC Digest includes an article on School Discipline that makes some excellent points. This article can be found at http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed350727.html

 View this PowerPoint on Discipline.  Or download the Discipline Presentation here.

We've saved the best for the last. Think of a discipline problem you have (or might have) and then go to http://www.disciplinehelp.com/ and click on Solutions for Handling 117 Misbehaviors and see if you can find the solution for your problem. You will also want to check out other links at this site.

Assignments:

Select the discipline model that you would use, and explain your specific plan for dealing with discipline problems that occur. Your plan should be essentially what you would tell students about how you would handle discipline in your classes.


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