fredric jones: positive discipline model by lacey head and brittany vance
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FREDRIC JONES:POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
MODEL
By Lacey Head and Brittany Vance
DEFINITION
According to Fredric Jones, classroom
discipline is “the business of enforcing
classroom standards and building patterns of
cooperation to maximize learning and minimize
disruptions.”
In order to make Positive Discipline
successful, these four components are needed:
limit setting, omission training, positive
training, and backup system.
TEACHER’S RESPONSIBILITY
Teachers must model appropriate behavior and use proper
classroom management techniques.• Teachers must respect students in order to get respect from
them in return.• If a teacher acts mature then the student will more than likely
model the teacher’s behavior.
Teachers need to organize classroom furniture to maximize
mobility and accessibility to students.
Teachers need to establish control in the classroom by using
body language such as eye contact, physical proximity, facial
expression, and body carriage.
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Teachers should provide incentives for students so
that they have motivation to get work completed.
A teacher needs to provide a back up system.• In Jones’s words, “a back-up system is a series of
responses designed to meet force with force so that the uglier the student’s behavior becomes, the deeper he or she digs his or her hole with no escape.”
• Some examples are: warning, conference with student, time-out, loss of privileges, being sent to the office, detention, conference with parent, in school/out of school suspension (three days), expulsion.
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Not only do good teachers tell students how they
should act, but they demonstrate appropriate
behavior in all of their interactions and daily
routines. Be the example.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY
If the teacher is doing his or her job by setting an
appropriate example for students, then the students
will duplicate that behavior in their own lives.
KEY TERMS
Limit Setting- Actions that the teacher takes to stop a student’s
inappropriate behavior and to prompt the student to on-task
behavior through the use of body language.
Responsibility Training- A system for ensuring positive cooperation
in the classroom.
Omission Training- The individualized incentive program that
encourages defiant students through the omission of unwanted
behavior.
Backup system- System of consequences that we explained before.
PROS AND CONS OF MODEL
We were trying to think of a con to this model, but we
feel that every teacher should act this way naturally.
If a student refuses to follow the teacher’s lead in
setting an example then the backup plan will come into
effect.
We feel that even though this plan may have flaws, it is a
great plan to enforce in the classroom because it covers
such a wide array of issues.
RANDOM FACTS:
Jones found that 50% of classroom time is lost due
to student misbehavior and being off task.• 80% of lost time is due to talking without
permission.• 19% is lost to daydreaming, students being out of
their seats, making noise, etc.• 1% is lost due to more serious behaviors such as
fighting.