Classroom management help from Marv Marshall ("Discipline Without Stress")
Teachers.Net
This month, Marv Marshall focuses upon the importance of establishing
procedures in order to be proactive about classroom management.
Excerpt:
I find I’m much more positive in my own mind when I purposely view
“misbehavior” as coming from “someone who didn’t learn the procedure,”
as when I perceive the same behavior as coming from “someone who’s not
following the rules.” Having tried both ways, I greatly prefer
teaching from the “procedures” mindset. I find it a more relaxing and
positive approach to working with people. It puts me in a “teaching
frame of mind” rather than a “find a consequence for breaking the rule
frame of mind.”
Read more about Marshall's formula for "Discipline Without Stress" in
the October 2009 Teachers.Net Gazette.
http://teachers.net/gazette/