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Assumptions
Students must be forced to comply with rules Students cannot be expected to determine appropriate classroom rules and follow them Punishment will cause students to avoid bad behavior and engage in good classroom behavior
More assumptions
Good behavior can also be encouraged by positive reinforcement For proper classroom management, parents and school administrators msut help to enforce rules.
Lee Canter Child guidance specialist Established an organization called Canter and Associates Provides training for teachers who want to become more assertive in their teaching http://www.canter.net
Assertive discipline
Emphasizes punishing unacceptable behaviors Providing reinforcement for behaviors that are acceptable to teachers
Canter believed that teachers generally ignored their own needs in the classroom in favor or satisfying the students needs.
Canter believes these misconceptions lead us to discipline students in wishy-washy ways This leads to other problems
Teacher rights
To establish classroom rules and procedures that produce optimum learning environments To insist on behavior from students that meets the teachers desires To insist on behavior that leads to positive social development
Names on the board with check marks to indicate the degree of the punishment
2. Question
Would you please get to work?
3. I message
I want you to open your books and get to work.
4. Demand
Get to work now.
Do not issue threats Follow through with what ever you say you re going to do Some teachers have made recodings of the misbehaviors