Category: Discipline

BubbleUp Take5: Mental Health, Restorative Conversations, Capturing Student Voices, Discussion Strategies and Dogs!

3/12/2018

This week's Take5 is full of strategies to promote student engagement and even more important, student well-being. From a new teaching practice -- Restorative Conversations -- to giving students a bigger voice in schools to the use of therapy dogs in classrooms across the country, we're focused on students' ability to communicate and to feel a sense of belonging at school. Together, we can all take steps -- big and small -- to help our students thrive not only academically but also emotionally.

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Why Whole Class Discipline has No Place in your Classroom.

10/24/2017

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Whole Class Discipline. While we might call it different things: Discipline, Behavior Management, Creating a Classroom Climate, most teachers have engaged in whole class discipline. It's really any time that a teacher rewards or hands out consequences based on the behavior of a group, rather than the actions of an individual.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Keeping kids after the bell as a consequence for behavior
Taking time off of recess as a consequence for behavior
Stopping an activity (or saying we can't do an activity) because of behavior
Collecting puffs or jewels or coins in a jar, allowing kids to earn rewards for whole class behavior.
Placing tally marks or minutes on the board to represent how quickly a whole class can get quiet or focus

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BubbleUp Take5: Mental Health, Restorative Conversations, Capturing Student Voices, Discussion Strategies and Dogs!

Why Whole Class Discipline has No Place in your Classroom.

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