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Describe one or two discipline policies in place in your classroom or at your school that adhere to the model discussed in this lesson. Have they been effective?
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We have honor code meeting with students who have been caught cheating. The teachers talk with the student and try to help the student understand the severity of what they have done, but that there is forgiveness. They can move on and go to their teachers for help the next time instead of the choice made.
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I am at the high school level now and teaching about making good choices comes with good consequences. Bad choices come with bad consequences
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A choice comes with a reward or a consequence. When we make our choice we have to be willing to understand the result of our choice, accept the result, learn and move forward.
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In my class, I emphasize on the importance of choices. They understand the basic principle that states, “every good choice comes with a good reward and every bad choice comes with a consequence”. There are procedures and there’s an expectation. When they go against the procedures, they are aware they’ve gone below the expectation and have to face the consequences of their choices. The whole idea is not to make them feel dejected or less of themselves but to gracefully build them up character wise in both making of choices and sense of responsibility.
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On the first day of school, I ask my students for their input on what they think the classroom rules should be. I have them write ideas on Post-it notes and I read them around when adding them to the social contract. If they are reasonable requests that I agree with, I will use them as our classroom rules. They usually want rewards for good behavior. The negative consequences follow suit depending on which rules they break. It is effective for the majority of the students. There are always a couple who want to test the boundaries.