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CH 9 - Creating a Positive Learning Environment

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CH 9 - Creating a Positive Learning Environment

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Creating Positive Learning Environments

Helps students feel safe and secure Enables students to take health risks Creates more opportunities for student

learning Assists with positive personal

development

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Harassment

Verbal: teasing, name-calling, threatening, and taunting

Relationship assaults: gossip, destroying relationships, and exclusion from social interactions

Physical assaults: hitting, kicking, shoving, and weapons use

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Harassment (Cont.)

All aspects of harassment have existed among youth for generations

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Your Turn

Think back to when you were in elementary, middle, or high school.

Based on the previous definitions of harassment, do you remember harassing, being harassed, or watching someone be harassed?

What do you recall? How did it make you feel?

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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (1999)

The YRBSS sampled thousands of students in grades 9-12. Their report is located: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4905a1.htm.

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Findings from YRBSS

The second leading cause of death among youth today remains homicide (18.6%).

More youth today feel unsafe about coming to and staying at school than youth from decades ago.

Approximately 5.2% of youth surveyed missed school at some point during the 1999 school year because they felt that their safety was threatened.

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Verbal Harassment: Words Do Hurt

Verbal harassment may have the following consequences:

May leave deep emotional scars on our young people.

May lead to physical violence. May negatively affect the recipients self-

esteem and self-image

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Reasons for Verbal and Physical Harassment

Bias Prejudice Hatred Jealousy Fear Ignorance

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What is Positive Discipline?

Discipline means the training necessary to produce or establish a specific pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.

Positive discipline works to create an inclusive environment where students want to come to learn and participate.

Positive discipline emphasizes teachers catching students doing things well or correctly.

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Negative Discipline

Negative discipline is grounded in reactive behaviors on the part of the teacher.

The emphasis is on catching students doing something wrong.

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Your Turn

Recall your physical education experiences.

How did your teachers discipline students?

What were the benefits and limitations of these approaches?

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The Art of Positive Discipline

Establish clear rules about classroom routines, student behavior, and learning protocols.

Establish clear consequences for breaking rules.

Never use exercise as punishment or tactics that instill fear or humiliation in students

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What are your rules?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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What are your protocols/procedures

Locker room? Students not dressing out? Roll call? Warm-ups? Getting equipment? Fire drill? Others. . .

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How will you convey that information

To the students?

To parents?

To the administration?

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Establishing Positive Discipline in Your Classes

Examine personal biases and assumptions about students.

Self-fulfilling prophecy cycle Use inclusive language.

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Establishing Positive Discipline in Your Classes (Cont.)

Use equitable language Monitor appropriateness of student

language. Interrupt ALL forms of harassment. Pay attention to the physical

environment.

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Be Aware of Everything – DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK

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Be Aware of Everything – DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK

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Teaching strategies for positive discipline

Help students get to know you and one another.

Establish ground rules for the class. Post ground rules in the gymnasium or

locker rooms. Determine consequences for poor

behavior and post these as well.

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What are your consequences?

They should be in a hierarchy

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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Teachers with Effective Discipline are proactive

Dos Be assertive Act Be consistent Communicate clearly Set realistic goals Treat students with

courtesy

Don’ts Be aggressive React Be inconsistent Be vague Set unrealistic goals Nag, threaten

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Teachers with Effective Discipline (Cont.)

Dos Convey interest &

enthusiasm Maintain composure

Don’ts Be disinterested and

bored Lose temper

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Teachers with Effective Discipline (Cont.)

Are good planners-

-Meet students at the door

-Teach students their rules

Are good managers-

-can see all students at all times

-have equipment readily accessible

Have high traffic areas free of congestion

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Developing social skills

Stating clear rules and consequences does not guarantee good behavior.

The purpose of developing social skills is to teach students how to behave positively with one another and how to cooperate.

Include social concepts such as trust, respect, honesty, trustworthiness, responsibility, cooperation, and integrity.