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Describe your discipline philosophy. Do you think you are disciplining in a way that nurtures your students?
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Part of my discipline policy is to talk to the student and ask them why they did what they did. I also ask them how they would feel if someone did to them whatever they did to the other person. I also ask them if they see me doing that. Then we talk about how the situation could be handled differently. I often want them to think about their choices and how their choices not only affect them, but they affect others. Then depending on what they did, they just need to apologize, they might lose a privilege, or if it is really bad, they go see the vp and get a phone call home.
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I believe discipline should always address the heart. Sin actions have a root cause in the heart so it is important to address the heart attitude with our students, while also addressing their behavior. At the same time, there is forgivness for sin, so students should leave times of discipline counseling knowing they are loved by God and that Christ has paid the debt for their sin.
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In discipline, my goal is to help the child learn from his/her mistakes. I teach from the beginning of school that none of us are perfect. We all will have moments of learning and having consequences to those learning moments. I will counsel the children if I see consistent bad choices and use Scripture to help them understand more deeply what the Lord wants them to learn. In many situations I use natural consequences – example: The student chose to take teaching or work time to talk or play around, so I will take some of the child’s recess/free time to walk and reflect on how you can make better choices the next time. I want my students to also understand what grace is and how the Lord shows us grace each day. I also teach them that we cannot look at grace and make it “cheap.” Each day is a new day with me. I never desire to take what happened yesterday and apply it to a new day if bad choices were made. Every moment is a teachable moment.
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I hope to use some of the elements of discipline that connects in my classroom. The foundation is that they are safe with me. Second, they are cared for no matter what. They are called and capable. And finally, they are responsible for their actions. I hope to use logical consequences.
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It is extremely important to show respect and love for one another in my course. I always remind students that in order to have an enjoyable learning experience, students and teachers must respect and love one another. In my course we use the changing card system, whenever a student breaks a course rule they change a card (from green to yellow to orange to red). Each change of card has a consequence (and students learn quickly that bad behavior in course results in a consequence). Every time a student misbehaves in course, I take time to remind the student, along with the whole course, of the course rules and the rules that have been broken. I also remind students that the reason why we have the rules in place is to practice love and respect for one another.