Assertive Discipline Lesson Plan
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Once upon a time--not so long ago--disciplining children at school was easy: the teacher hit them with a paddle, smacked them in the face, pinched them, pulled them by the ears or hair, locked them up in a dark closet, and abused them verbally. By and large, the system worked: children learned how to toe the line. Times have changed. Today, pupils and students abuse and sometimes knife or shoot their teachers. Teachers react with fear and confusion. They tend to think that perhaps a majority of children are educationally handicapped, afflicted with behavior and emotional problems, or with genetic or mental infirmities, and certainly with dysfunctional families. Or they are just plain thugs. And doubtlessly, many are.Psychologists studied this sad situation. They worked with dogs and mice, and came to the conclusion that the surest way to obtain compliance from a subject--be it canine, rodent, or human--was through inducing fear (what our grandparents already knew). They also discovered that conditioned fear was morbid and destructive of personal and social growth, that it interfered with effective solutions of reality-problems, that it bred total passivity or total aggressivity (whether latent or expressed). Many, if not most, criminals have a childhood background of physical and psychological abuse, of perverse fathers and resigned mothers. So, the pendulum swung, and children inherited the era of laissez-faire, of abandonment of parental and social responsi
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ProgramASSERTIVE DISCIPLINE
DurationOne workshop day
Lesson's topicPositive Consequences in the Classroom
Competencies/Behavioral objectives
Upon completing this Lesson, the participant will be able to:
1.Effect positive reinforcement of desirable students' behaviors.
2.Develop an effective Reinforcement Plan for the classroom.
3.Follow-through positive reinforcement with appropriate behavior modification activities (such as by sending notes to parents).
4.Develop and implement a classwide Reinforcement Plan for difficult classes (marbles, chips, etc.).
5.Discriminate between bribery and reward.
6.Determine time limits for a classwide Positive Reinforcement Plan.
7.Discriminate between positive reinforcement techniques used for elementary and for secondary students.
Terminologypositive consequences, behavioral reinforcement (positive and negative), directions, verbal and non-verbal reinforcement techniques, praise, follow-through, consequence, difficult classes, problem students, reward, motivation, learning, bribery.
Resources & references
1.Videotape, Assertive Discipline, Phase One, Session Four(30 minutes).
2.Canter, Lee, and Marlene Canter (1976). Assertive Discipline: A Take Charge Approach for Today's
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