Principles of Teaching 1:
DISCIPLINE
What is Discipline?
✘ Is a controlled behavior
✘ It constitutes the next important
concern of teachers as part of
good management
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Unfavorable learning conditions
• Most common cause of classroom
problems that affects the learners’
abilities, needs, and interests
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Unfavorable learning conditions
Examples:
• Overcrowded with more than the regular
number of students to a class
• With poor lightning facilities and
inadequate ventilation
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Unfavorable learning conditions
Examples:
• With furniture and storage cabinets
disorderly positioned
• With inappropriate seating arrangement
• Near sources of noise
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Teacher’s Poor Management Skills
• The teacher’s lack of adequate
knowledge and skills in handling
occurrences of misbehavior likewise
contributes to a trouble-prone setting
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Teacher’s Poor Management Skills
• The teacher’s ability to meet discipline-
challenging situations can spell the
difference between a good and distressed
classroom control
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Teacher’s Poor Management Skills
• Teacher depend on their:
a. Knowledge and skill in employing a wide
range of classroom strategies and
procedures
b. Personal and emotional attributes
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Students’ varied background
• Students bring to the classroom a
surprising record of individual attitudes,
interests, and abilities
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Students’ varied background
• Said characteristics could be traced from
their differences in:
a. Family background
b. Physical and mental capacities
c. Emotional traits among others
Causes of Disciplinary Problems
✘ Students’ varied background
• With varied abilities they may greatly
differ in expressing self control, patience
and temper when challenged
• Their relationships with one another can
bring about either positive or negative
interactions as they study and work
together
Preventing Discipline Problems
✘ Depending on students’ abilities and
interests, teachers can implement group-
oriented methodologies such as:
a. Cooperative learning approach
b. Team learning
c. Peer tutoring
d. Group projects
Preventing Discipline Problems
✘ Teachers who are sensitive to possible
misdirection of efforts and interactions
are fast to switch form one technique to
another as the need arises. There must
be clear understanding of the objectives
of the lesson and strategies to be used.
Preventing Discipline Problems
✘ Prime importance are the teachers’
personal attributes such as:
a. Patience
b. Compassion
c. Concern and caring attitude
d. Respect and trust for others
Preventing Discipline Problems
✘ the teachers’ personalities influence
students’ behavior. A warm, respectable
relationship with students through sincere
and straightforward communications can
demonstrate trust and credibility
Preventing Discipline Problems
✘ the teachers’ teaching style will determine
how the students will respond, at times
receptive, sometimes withdrawn. This
points to the way they move around
during the class activity, how they give
orders in the form of requests, and how
the procedures are clearly explained
Assertive Discipline
A structured, systematic approach designed
to assist teachers in managing an
organized, teacher-in-charge classroom
environment.
The teacher is the captain of his/her
classroom.
Assertive Discipline
Involves the use of the following behaviors:
✘ Identify expectations clearly
✘ Be willing to say “I like that” or “I don’t like
that”
✘ Be persistent in stating expectations and
feelings
Assertive Discipline
✘ Use a firm tone of voice
✘ Maintain eye contact
✘ Follow up with promises rather with threats
✘ Be assertive in confrontations with students;
include the use of statements of expectation,
indicate consequences that will occur, and note
why action is necessary
Practices in Maintaining Good
Discipline
1. Discipline is the students’ responsibility.
If they misbehave, the teacher accepts
no excuses. They must be ready for the
consequences.
Practices in Maintaining Good
Discipline
2. Discipline is the teachers’ way of
establishing a desirable student-oriented
environment for learning.
Practices in Maintaining Good
Discipline
3. Discipline is coupled with effective
teaching strategies and techniques. A
well-planned learning activity will go on
smoothly with less interruptions caused
by misbehavior.
Practices in Maintaining Good
Discipline
4. Discipline is achieved through the effects
of group dynamics on behavior. Individual
behavior affects the group likewise the
group’s expectations win the individual
behavior. Classroom control is
maintained
Practices in Maintaining Good
Discipline
5. Discipline is believed to be the exclusive
responsibility of the teachers. They have
the right to insist on the proper behavior.
They announce the rules that student are
expected to follow. Good behavior is
rewarded and bad behavior is dealt with
accordingly.
Ways of Dealing with Discipline
Problems (Accepted and Effective )
1. Use verbal reinforcers that encourage
good behavior and discourage bad
tendencies.
2. Use nonverbal gestures, frown or hard
look to dissuade them from mischiefs.
Ways of Dealing with Discipline
Problems (Accepted and Effective )
3. Dialogues can help in discovering
problems and agreeing on mutually
beneficial solutions.
4. Focus attention on one who is unruly and
is about to disturb the neighbors. Lead
him/her to a secluded area and nicely
convince him/her to be quiet.
Ways of Dealing with Discipline
Problems (Accepted and Effective )
5. Award merits for good behavior and
demerits for inconsistencies and lapses.
6. A private one-on-one brief conference
can lead top be a better understanding of
mistakes that need to be remedied or
improved.
Ways of Dealing with Discipline
Problems (Accepted and Effective )
7. Give students the freedom to express or
explain agitated feelings and misgivings
rather than censure them right away.
Ways of Dealing with Discipline
Problems (Unacceptable and Ineffective )
1. Scolding and harsh words as a reprimand
will have a negative effect on the entire
class.
2. Nagging and faultfinding, together with
long “sermons” are repugnant and nasty.
Ways of Dealing with Discipline
Problems (Unacceptable and Ineffective )
3. Keeping a student in a “detention area”
during or after classes as a penalty for
misbehavior is a waste of time and
occasion for learning. The shameful
experience is not easy to forget.
4. Assignment of additional homework
compared to the rest can make them
dislike the subject.
Ways of Dealing with Discipline
Problems (Unacceptable and Ineffective )
5. Use of ridicule or sarcasm could humiliate
and embarrass a student.
6. Grades for academic achievement should
not be affected due to wrongdoing.
