Talk:Assertive discipline

From WikEd

I also used Assertive discipline for years in my classroom. I too found it restrictive and the "I am going to get you" attitude. Then I came upon Disciplilne with Dignity and devised my own discipline plan that worked with the type of students that I had and my teaching style. Sharon Morrisette

Critique

I found this article vague. It did not explain clearly what consequences might be given to disruptive students. Does AD use time-outs? (See Wikipedia:Child time-out, an article I wrote most of.)

Also I disliked the "cop out" term behaviors to mean "misbehavior". Is there a ban on label behavior good and bad, constructive and disruptive, or what? Does AD sook to be in accord with relativistic approaches like [[]]?

When I've taught, it's always been in a class where the parents have empowered me to enforce order any way I saw fit - other than breaking the law, of course! If a student refused my instructions, I would simply ask him to take a letter to his parents (announcing his expulsion!). You'd be surprised how well the other children would behave when they find out (from the expelled child) the sort of conequences his parents dealt out to him.

Anyway, it sounds like this article is trying to say that AD relies chiefly on positive feedback, through something like praise and recognition - as an alternative to using force. But it doesn't make this clear. And it doesn't give any details on how effective it is.

I'd also like to see links to other types of classroom discipline approach. Not all teachers have the luxury of a completely supportive parent community. What can they do, for example, in an environment where they cannot expel (or even suspend) disruptive students? Ed Poor 21:06, 16 Sep 2005 (CDT)