Strengths of Assertive Discipline

Strengths of Assertive Discipline

It is simple to use. Rules are clear. The personal desires of the teacher can be enforced. It involves parents and administors in the discipline process. First efficient discipline system.

Emmer and Evertson (1980) found that effective managers clearly laid out expectations on the first day of class and that the best teachers were observed explicitly teaching their rules early in the year.

The use of Assertive Discipline by teachers have proven beneficial in both decreasing the number of referrals and as an effective means of increasing on-task behavior of students

State whether the theory appeal you and provide the reasons.

If YES..Assertive Discipline provides an outline and a systematic approach that emphasizes consistency in handling classroom behavior.It is a two-way approach in which it affects the behavior of the teacher and the students alike.

The key to Assertive Discipline is catching students being good and letting them know that you like it.

Effective teachers master the skills of positive reinforcement and only use firm and consistent negative consequences but only as a LAST RESORT.Assertive discipline is positive discipline.Canter wanted to eliminate the teachers need to stop the lesson just to point out one students misbehavior while the whole class looks on.

POSITIVE DISCIPLINETeach specific behaviors.Use positive repetition to reinforce the students when they follow the directions.If a student is still misbehaving ,then the teacher can use the negative consequences accordingly.

Effective teachers are always positive first. Focusing on negative behavior teaches students that negative behavior gets attention, that the teacher is a negative person, and that the classroom is a negative place. - Lee Canter, 2012

Assertive Discipline is not a negative program, but it can be misused by negative teachers. (Canter,2012)

The consequences should never be psychologically or physically harmful to the students. -often misunderstood by parents & teachers

Students should never be made to stand in front of the class as objects of ridicule or be degraded in any other way.

Canter is strongly against the administration of corporal punishment and that there are more effective ways of dealing with students than hitting them.

Assertive Discipline has a good balance of establishing rules and developing a positive, respectful learning environment.

Good behaviour is encouraged and rewarded, and bad behaviour is punished, instead of ignored like in Behaviour modification by Skinner.

The balance of both rewards, rules, and punishment is the KEY to creating a positive learning environment.

Students learn self-discipline and responsible behavior by being given clear, consistent choices.

I want teachers to learn that they have to take charge, explain their expectations, be positive with students, and consistently employ both positive reinforcement and negative consequences. - Lee Canter,2012

Within the same school system, elemantary school classroom teachers trained in and implementing Assertive Discipline during one academic year displayed significant positive differences with regard to focus control, pupil control idealogy, and higher mean scores with respect to self-concept and assertive teacher personality characteristics.

Bibliography Canter, L, & Canter, M. (1976). Assertive discipline: a take-charge approach for todays educator. Los Angelos, CA: Canter and Associates INC. Charles, C.M. (2008). Building classroom discipline (9th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Education INC.

Assertive Discipline: More than Names on the Board and Marbles in a Jar Author(s): Lee Canter Reviewed work(s): Source: The Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Sep., 1989), pp. 57-61 Published by: Phi Delta Kappa International Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20404058 .