Actions and Consequences
How you use behavior management and the punishments you give can have a lasting effect on a student learning and relationships. The idea is that certain actions, such as
sending a student out of the classroom and suspending a student, can have
detrimental effects that go beyond the scope of what is intended. We as teachers need to be aware of these
effects and find alternatives that will allow our students to grow and thrive.
Let us focus on:
TPE
2: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student
1.
Promote students' social-emotional growth, development, and individual
responsibility using positive interventions and supports, restorative justice,
and conflict resolution practices to foster a caring community where each
student is treated fairly and respectfully by adults and peers.
The goal of behavior management is to create a safe environment for our students that is conducive to learning. This is a goal we can never lose sight of. One danger is that we can some times confuse this as maintaining order, and may be tempted to take actions that can harm some of our most marginalized students. Any time we remove student from the learning environment creates a rift that can hurt a students ability to learn and their relationship with the teacher. One example of a potentially dangerous policy is zero tolerance. For more information please refer to the following video:
I
have learned that teachers need to find alternative measures to dealing with
student disciplinary issues. Restorative
justice is a great way to help students take responsibility of their actions
and hold themselves accountable.
Suspension needs to be a last resort and student must be kept in the
classroom as much as possible.
In
my classroom, individualized consequences are the key to my classroom
management plan. Frameworks will be
established to ensure consistency and fairness; however, considerations must be
made and there can be no zero tolerance policies.
What are your thoughts?
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