beyond discipline alfie kohn classroom management educ 360
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Beyond Discipline
Alfie Kohn
Classroom Management
EDUC 360
Beyond Discipline
Alfie KohnClassroom Management
Beyond Discipline
• operates under the premise:– Students are
responsible for their own behavior
– Students are capable of controlling their own behavior
Beyond discipline looks like
• A student-directed management style
• Teachers allowing students to experience natural consequences
• Absence of physical or psychological punishments
Beyond discipline
• Does not promote removing student with misbehavior from the classroom
• Creates a unconditional community
• Designs classroom as a safe place
Beyond discipline
• Promotes creating a sense of belonging
• Teaches unconditionally
• Has high expectations with unconditional acceptance
• Sees student separate from behavior
Kohn promotes…
• Working with children to encourage their social and moral development which means…
Utilizing children’s need…
• To be able to make their own decisions
• To belong• To learn and apply
learning
So focus on…
• Learning • Classroom
environment• Set of values vs rules• Natural curiosity and
need to learn
Community environment has
• No competition• No rewards• Words of
encouragement• Respect• Sense of belonging• Class meetings
When misbehavior happens…
• Focus on curriculum• What is the purpose
of the task?• Is the learner
constructing new information?
Emphasize a curriculum based on
• Students’ affinities• Opportunities to
construct new knowledge
• Working with peers• Group projects• Multiple learning
styles
Remember students are…
• Compassionate• Sympathetic• Courteous • Curious • Constructivists
creating their own knowledge