Part 2
What are the essential elements of an adequate discipline module?

We are finding a great deal of constructive Classroom management strategies in Gasser’s descriptions of his Reality Therapy, Control Theory and Choice Theory. A more recent term for Glasser’s approach to management of students’ behaviour is NONCOERCIVE DISCIPLINE. It involves the process of review and revision, and assists in dealing to the needs of each individual student. We are focusing here on teachers helping the students become more responsible for their own behavior.

The implementation of an essential management plan would require the following for the teacher:
# know the students, their needs and interests
# engage students in planning meaningful and need satisfying learning experiences;
# involve students in decision making about classroom routines, procedures, fair rules and logical consequences;
# conduct regular forums with students to review and monitor the learning progress and environment;
# reflect with students, on instances of misbehaviour or conflict, and assist in identifying causes and possible solutions and
# facilitate and monitor plans for eliminating problems behaviours.


Furthermore we need to have an underpinning teacher plan intervention to help with the classroom management difficulties.

# Punishment should be applied without anger and
# It should be a logical outcome of the agreement they made with the teacher in the social group discussion.
# Punishment should be fair and known in advance
# Challenging behavior, should be clarified, described by the student and discussed with the teacher and the student.
# Clarifying the appropriateness and effectiveness of the misbehaviours in relationship in helping for learning and supporting the other students and seeing if it breaks the rules which were established in the Class environment.




Any effective discipline model must be based on a well- understood system of beliefs.
An adequate discipline model is, in my opinion, one which expresses a fundamental respect for the human individual.
In a democratic society, this will be a model which assists the student in processes of self-regulation. The ideas of both Glasser and Deikurs address this fundamental issue.