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Impacts of indiscipline

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FORMING WH-QUESTIONS

- What are the discipline problems occurring in our society?

- Why are these disciplinary problems occurring?

- What are the ways to overcome these problems?

- How do these disciplinary problems affect others?

- Keyword : Disciplinary problems, Impacts of

disciplinary problems

NARROWING THE TOPIC

BROAD TOPIC: SOCIAL PROBLEMS

NARROWED TOPIC: DISCIPLINE PROBLEM

FOCUSSED TOPIC: IMPACTS OF INDISCPLINE ACT

Collecting the data

Type of material and name JOURNAL

Title of article IMPACT OF DISCIPLINE ISSUES ON SCHOOLEFFECTIVENESS: THE VIEWS OF SOME GHANAIANPRINCIPALS

Author(s) Inusah Salifu and Joseph S Agbenyega

Publisher  

Year of publication  

ISBN  

Website address (online sources)

http://mierjs.in/ojs/index.php/mjestp/article/view/42/37

Date of retrieval (online sources)

28 JANUARY 2015

Volume number, issue number and page(s)

Page 51-64

Type of material and name JOURNAL

Title of article STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF INDISCIPLINE AT THREE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN ONE EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT IN CENTRAL TRINIDAD

Author(s) Deaukee Lochan

Publisher School of Education Faculty of Humanities and Education St. Augustine

Year of publication 2010

ISBN  

Website address (online sources)

http://mierjs.in/ojs/index.php/mjestp/article/view/42/37

Date of retrieval (online sources)

28 JANUARY 2015

Volume number, issue number and page(s)

Page 51-64

Type of material and name JOURNAL

Title of article The Effects of Various Modes of AbsenteeismProblem in School on the Academic Performance ofStudents in Secondary Schools

Author(s) Azizi Yahaya, Jamaludin Ramli, Shahrin Hashim, Mohd. Ali Ibrahim, Hamdan Bin Hj. Abd.Kadir, Yusof Boon, Raja Roslan Raja Abd Rahman

Publisher European Journal of Social Sciences

Year of publication 2010

ISBN  

Website address (online sources)  

Date of retrieval (online sources) 28 JANUARY 2015

Volume number, issue number and page(s)

Volume 12, Number 4 (2010), page 624-628

SELECTION AND ORGANISATION OF

INFORMATION

Selecting information

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

TOPIC: IMPACTS OF DISCIPLINARY PROBLEM

QUESTION 1: WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DISCIPLINARY PROBLEM TO THE SOCIETY?QUESTION 2: CAN DISCIPLNE CAUSE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN?QUESTION 3: HOW DISCIPLINE PROBLEM AFFECT A COUNTRY?

CONSTRUCTING THESIS STATEMENT

What are the impacts of indiscipline among students?

Students will fail in examination.

Students will involve in immoral activities thus, get health problems.

Students will involve more in crimes and make our country to be insecure.

Thesis statement

Indiscipline among students will give great impacts to academic, health and also community.

Organising information

PARAPHRASING

a) In a longitudinal study of African-American males, Robins and Ratcliff (1978) found that of those students who were often truant in elementary school and truant in high school, 75 percent failed to graduate. Failure to graduate, in turn, is associated with diminished earning potential in adulthood and other poor outcomes.

According to Robins and Ratcliff (1978), they discover that 75 percent students who failed to graduate are those who frequently played truant in elementary school and high school.

 

Paraphrase and summarise???

1.SUMMARY GRIDThe impact of school indiscipline is not possible to easily quantify. There is widespread acceptance of the fact that indiscipline in the school setting usually affects teaching and learning. Misbehaviour from students has the tendency to make teaching an unpleasant experience especially if it occurs frequently such that the teacher has to spend most of his or her instructional time correcting them . If students decline to stay on task, they invariably do not learn, as they would have done if they were not disobedient. In this sense, the best plans, activities and materials do not as well mean anything. Learning requires close and uninterrupted concentration especially in the type of environment where learning activities are planned according to time. Learning in schools require distraction-free atmosphere, purposeful directions from a teacher, and an ample time for pondering over what one is taught or has read on his own . These conditions cannot be said to prevail in schools where discipline is rife and disruption is frequent coupled with movement of students without permission. In effect, neither teachers nor learners can be encouraged to give of their best because of the atmosphere of constant confusion and friction (Wright & Kate, 2003). As indiscipline damages students' self-confidence and turns others into criminals their formative years in school is important to instil discipline in them. Exploring discipline issues in this study is therefore significant and contributes to our understanding of the Ghanaian situation and efforts to improve on the situation in schools for maximum learning to occur.

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Main idea Supporting details

1 Affects providing and gaining knowledge

-makes teaching as an uncomfortable experience-instructors have to spend more time in advising the problematic students instead of teaching-teachers and students can’t give of their best teaching and gaining skills-indiscipline could destroy student’s self-confidence

Indiscipline problems among students will affect the teachers to teach and the students to learn. Misbehaviour of a student will make teaching as an uncomfortable experience. The instructors have to spend more time in advising the problematic students instead of teaching. Indiscipline could destroy a student’s self-confidence. Due to that, instructors and students can’t be expected to give of their best due to the constant inconvenienced situation (Wright and Kate, 2003).

Boakye (2006), writing on Ghanaian school discipline issues concur that indiscipline leads many student to drugs, which significantly increase restlessness, excitability and hyperactivity. Chronic undisciplined students tend to alcohol, crack cocaine and antidepressants leading to lethargic, apathetic behaviour or urge to incite erratic and dangerous behaviour thus causing sporadic outburst of violence. He observes further that, indiscipline may cause a sudden decrease in classroom achievement. According to him, student indiscipline poses a great challenge to principals because they are saddled with how to motivate students. Gyamera (2005) also contends that motivation is the energy that fuels a person's drive to achieve. She reveals that, drugs slow down a person's ability to think and act normally thereby weakening his or her power of reasoning. Adentwi notes that drug abuse and other indiscipline related behaviour promote poor co-ordination, attention deficit disorder, unpredictable mood swings, and sexual immorality as leading factors for school dropout. Adentwi has the belief that the use of drugs carries a very high price tag, which manifests in drug dependence as well as personal and social disorganisation. This tends to have the tendency of bringing about involvement in serious crimes by the victim. He thinks that, drugs slow down a person's ability to think and act normally thereby weakening his or her power of reasoning.

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2 Indiscipline can cause health problem

-leads students in drug abuse which will cause him to increase in restlessness, hyperactivity and excitability-drugs can cause health problem such as lethargic, apathetic behaviour-principals are mentally challenged-drugs slow down thinking ability-weakening the power of reasoning-cause poor co-ordination, attention deficit disorder, mood swings and sexual immorality

According to Boakye (2006), indiscipline can lead to health problem. Drug abuse among students will cause him to increase in restlessness, hyperactivity and excitability. Drug abuse can cause health problems such as lethargic, apathetic behaviour. Indiscipline not only affects the problematic students but also the principals as he will be mentally challenged to solve students’ discipline problems. The misuse of drugs among indiscipline students will slow down their thinking ability and weakening the power of reasoning.

Student nonattendance is a problem that extends much further than the school. It affects the student, the family, and the community. The Los Angeles County Office of Education identifies truancy as the most powerful predictor of delinquency. Police departments across the nation report that many students not in school during regular hours are committing crimes, including vandalism, shoplifting, and graffiti. When Van Nuys, California, officials conducted a three-week sweep for truants on the streets, shoplifting arrests dropped by 60 percent (Garry 1996). Absenteeism is detrimental to students' achievement, promotion, graduation, self-esteem, and employment potential. Clearly, students who miss school fall behind their peers in the classroom. This, in turn, leads to low self-esteem and increases the likelihood that at-risk students will drop out of school. In a longitudinal study of African-American males, Robins and Ratcliff (1978) found that of those students who were often truant in elementary school and truant in high school, 75 percent failed to graduate. Failure to graduate, in turn, is associated with diminished earning potential in adulthood and other poor outcomes.

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3 Indiscipline cause increase in crime

-Students that play truant affect the community-they commit in crimes, vandalism, stealing, and graffiti-truancy cause low self-esteem-increase drop out of school-can’t earn money when adult and lead to crime

Indiscipline cause increase in crime. Students that play truant affect the community by committing in crimes, vandalism, stealing, and graffiti. Truancy causes low self-esteem and increase drop out of school. These people can’t earn money when enter adulthood and lead them to commit crime. According to Robins and Ratcliff (1978), they discover that 75 percent students who failed to graduate are those who frequently played truant in elementary school and high school.

Outlining

DRAFTING

Developing a Topic Sentence for a Paragraph

Paragraph 1

One of the greatest impacts of discipline problems among student is declining in academic result drastically.

Paragraph 2

Another great consequence of indiscipline among students is causing serious mental health problem.

Paragraph 3

Finally, indiscipline can bring problems in any community or nation.

Topic Impacts of Indiscipline Act Topic sentence One of the greatest impacts of discipline problems among

student is declining in academic result drastically.Supporting/Connecting sentence Due to indiscipline act, academic result had dropped

drastically.Source QuotationsAuthor : Deaukee Lochan Title of article: The effect of discipline problems on teaching and learning. Journal : Students’ Perceptions of Indiscipline at Three Primary Schools in One Educational District in Central Trinidad Date : 2010 

Some researchers said that when classrooms are occupied by disruptive behaviour, the teaching and learning process is adversely affected.

Author : Inusah Salifu and Joseph S Agbenyega Title of article : Implications of indiscipline on school administration Journal : Impact of Discipline Issues on School Effectiveness : The views of Some Ghanaian Principals 

The teacher will face the effect in teaching or providing the knowledge to the students (Wright and Kate, 2003)

Synthesising Supporting Details from Various Sources

Topic Impacts of Indiscipline Act

Topic sentence Another great consequence of indiscipline among students is causing serious mental health problem.

Supporting/Connecting sentence

There are many health problems that indiscipline act could cause.

Source Quotation

Author : Inusah Salifu and Joseph S Agbenyega Title of article : Implications of indiscipline on school administration Journal : Impact of Discipline Issues on School Effectiveness : The views of Some Ghanaian Principals 

According to Boakye (2006), school discipline problems could lead most of the students to get involved in drugs which will lead to serious health problems.

Topic Impacts of Indiscipline ActTopic sentence Finally, indiscipline can bring problems in any community or nation.

Supporting/Connecting sentence

Indiscipline act could make a country to be in a very bad atmosphere

Source Quotation Author : Azizi YahayaJamaludin RamliShahrin HashimMohd. Ali IbrahimHamdan Bin Hj. Abd.KadirYusof BoonRaja Roslan Raja Abd Rahman Title of article : What Are Some of the Consequences of Nonattendance? Journal : The Effects of Various Modes of AbsenteeismProblem in School on the Academic Performance ofStudents in Secondary Schools

According to Robins and Ratcliff (1978), they discover that 75 percent students who failed to graduate are those who frequently played truant in elementary school and high school.

Writing an Introduction and a Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Past a few decades, the rate of indiscipline acts is increasing among the students. Truancy, stealing, fighting, bullying and drug abusing are several examples of problems that caused due to discipline problems among the students. Students are future leaders (Abdul Kaalam, 2002). According to Curwin and Mendler (2008), there are four reasons on why indiscipline acts occur. First of all, they are lack of awareness. Then, they think they are useless. Moreover, they want to look good in front of their friends and finally, they feel that they need more attention from others. The indiscipline acts are bringing too much problems to everyone. Based on all these, indiscipline among students will give great impacts to academic, health and also community.

CONCLUSION

In a nutshell, a proper action should be taken in order to prevent the impacts of indiscipline act from getting worst. The authorities should take immediate action and at the same time the action should be effective. According to Charles (2002), methods such as scolding, beating, giving warning, demanding, bossing in order to discipline someone are no longer effective. Hence, new methods should be used to fight against these indiscipline acts.

The impact of

Indiscipline Act

Academic

Community

Healthinstructors and

students can’t be

expected to give of their best due to

the constant

inconvenienced

situation (Wright and

Kate, 2003).

According to Boakye

(2006), indiscipline can lead to

health problem.

According to Robins and Ratcliff (1978), they

discover that 75 percent students who failed to

graduate are those who frequently played truant in elementary school and high

school.

ACADEMIC

makes teaching as an

uncomfortable experience

have to spend more time in advising the problematic

students

Teachers will get

frustrated

Wasting of valuable teaching

period

teachers can’t give their best teaching

skills

No proper or effective output

destroy student’s self-confidence

Makes the student to feel

weak and useless

HEALTH

get involved in drugs

affect the authority

lethargic, apathetic behaviour

increase in restlessness,

hyperactivity and excitability

slow down thinking ability-weakening

the power of reasoning

mentally challenged

poor co-ordination, attention deficit disorder, mood

swings and sexual immorality

need to solve students’ indiscipline

problems

COMMUNITY

truancy

cause low self-esteem

increase drop out of

school

many ungraduated students will be outside

there

Feel that they are

stupid

Can’t afford for a job

Increase in

crime

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