POSITIVE DISCIPLINE approach to classroom management:
This year several Ebenezer Elementary teachers are using Positive Discipline in their classrooms. Positive Discipline is a program based on the work of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs and designed to teach young people to become responsible, respectful and resourceful members of their communities. Based on the best selling Positive Discipline books by Dr. Jane Nelsen and co-authors Lynn Lott, Cheryl Erwin, Kate Ortolano, Mary Hughes, Mike Brock, Lisa Larson and others, it teaches important social and life skills in a manner that is deeply respectful and encouraging for both children and adults (including parents, teachers, childcare providers, youth workers, and others). For more information on Positive Discipline please visit www.positivediscipline.com
Dyane Carrere talks about Positive Discipline principals:
Podcast intro of Positive Discipline:
Podcast on the Attention-Seeking-Hat Wearing Student:
Strategies to stop student misbehavior & increase instructional time.
Dyane Carrere, Educational Consultant at Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU-13), talks about simple behavior management strategies to help teachers with misbehaving students. Among the strategies discussed are:
- Thanking students prior to task compliance
- Teacher directed movement activity to get students back on-task
- 12 inches from desk time-out
- Buddy Teacher time-out strategy
Bonnie Gable, works within a classroom environment comprised mostly of students with ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in the School District of Philadelphia. Among the strategies discussed are teacher and student led movement activities to foster classroom community and on-task behaviors.