This is a strategy from the STAR Course (Successful Teaching Thru Acceptance of Responsibility - Performance Learning Systems)
Remember when you were a kid and your rode in the backseat of your parent's car with your brother (in my case), and of course, the two of us were arguing/fighting like cats and dogs. "He touched my side!" Well, the question is how many times did your Mom or Dad turn back to you and say, "If you guys don't stop this, I'm going to stop this car and ..." So, how many time before they actually did something?
For Teachers this IS a reality every day. WHAT IS YOUR NUMBER? How many time do you warn in an unacceptable situation, before you take action and render a consequence? That's your number. Research says that your number should be ONE, two is OK, but ONE is most effective.
We invite your comments, question and discussion. Think about it! What is YOUR number, and How do you feel about that?
I hadn't thought about my number before taking the classroom management course with Brenda. My number always changed and my responses were not well thought-out. Now I have a script to say in response to different types of behaviors. My goal is for my number to be "one" from now on. My students will learn my number.
ReplyDeleteI am working hard at keeping my number at "1". Yesterday was a perfect example. I have a homeroom 7EFI student who is an expert at work avoidance. 30minutes into the class I checked on him to see if he had completed the blog, and he was surfing the net. "I couldn't login" was the excuse. I opened the site for him, and he was logged-in (no surprise there). I asked him to spend half of lunch recess with me to catch up and he said "I couldn't find you".
ReplyDeleteDuring French period after lunch I had him help me write a script of the events. He "could not remember his parents phone number", so we got it from the office and made the phone call. He read the script to his father.
I do not think that he will try this particular work avoidance tactic with me again. My number was "1" and it worked!