•One of the greatest challenges for teachers is discipline in the classroom. Classroom
discipline has been defined in various ways,
for example:
•“Enforcing simple
classroom rules that facilitate learning
and minimize disruption.”
•“The slow,
bit-by-bit, time-consuming task of helping
children to see the sense of acting in a certain way.”
•Effective classroom management requires constant monitoring of student behavior,
and a two-pronged
approach to student misbehavior:
prevention and remediation- the
adjustment of unacceptable behavior to acceptable behavior.
•Over the years, a number of discipline models have been
developed to help teachers control
student behavior in the classroom.
In this lesson you will
examine the Master Teacher
discipline model You Can Handle Them All, a step-by-step guide to handling over a hundred specific student behaviors.