Now and Then
Types of School Punishment
Learning Objectives
History
- Suspension: Is a form of punishment that the teacher or school expel the student for a certain amount of time.
- Expulsion: Is a form of punishment that the teacher or school expel the student from the school.
- Detention: Is a form of punishment in which the student have to stay after school.
- Teachers could punish the students like the parents did. the most common method used was corporal punishment such as : cane, paddle, yard stick or strap.
- classroom discipline was considered as punishment.
- it was assumed that children were bad and the only way to prevent misbehavior was to punish.
Present
- To know what strict discipline is.
- To look at how discipline has evolved.
- To look at the different types of school punishments.
- Know the benefits and drawbacks of strict discipline.
- Look at different theories.
- What methods work better.
Detention
Expulsion
Suspension
- Bringing weapons to school ( gun, knife and etc.).
- Committing crime in school area.
- putting other people life in danger.
- Alcohol and drugs ( under influence of alcohol).
- Threat to others ( teachers, Student and etc.).
- Vandalism ( damaging school property).
- Inappropriate behavior (disrespect teachers, uses inappropriate language).
- Coming late to classes or skipping classes.
- Loitering ( student who are in certain classes without adult supervision).
Strict Discipline is the Best Way to Manage Children's Behavior in School.
- Rather than classroom discipline educators believe in classroom control.
- Teachers or educators are more informed about how misbehavior is connected to to physiological or psychological problems.
- 125 countries have banned corporal punishment.
- educators use other methods such as, detention expulsion, denial of privileges, in preventing misbehavior.
References
Advantages and Disadvantages of strict discipline in school.
Bowen, S. (2015) Discipline in School: What works and What Doesn't. Available at: http://www.eduguide.org/article/discipline-in-school-what-works-and-what-doesnt (Accessed: 26th March 2016).
Fitria,N.(2012), Being a strict teacher, is it good or bad ? https://welovewriting.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/being-a-strict-teacher-is-it-good-or-bad/(Accessed 26 January 2016)
Advantages
Merriam-Webster (2015), suspension. Available at: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suspension (Accessed: 31 March 2016)
The Free Dictionary (2016), suspension. Available at: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/suspension (Accessed: 31 March 2016)
Merriam-Webster (2015), expulsion. Available at: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expulsion (Accessed: 31 March 2016)
The Free Dictionary (2016), expulsion. Available at: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/expulsion (Accessed: 31 March 2016)
School Advocacy Hamilton (2006), suspension. Available at: http://www.schooladvocacy.ca/Safe%20Schools.pdf (Accessed: 31 March 2016)
CTLawHelp.org (2011), School Expulsion: What is the process? What Can you do?. Available at: http://ctlawhelp.org/school-expulsions-when-your-child-is-expelled (Accessed: 31 March 2016)
Edwards, C., Moussa, G., Madin, E. (2016), Detention Policy. Available at: http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/DD1B8F23-25A7-4674-8053-0873D4C44506/98616/DetentionPolicy.pdf (Accessed: 31
March 2016)
School Discipline History (2016) Available at: http://education.findlaw.com/student-conduct-and-discipline/school-discipline-history.html (Accessed: 30th March 2016).
- Obedience and respect to elders like authority.
- Teaches the child to be confident and develops self esteem.
- In some cases it gives the child a sense of predictability and control .
- Teaches the child about boundaries.
- Creates a classroom atmosphere which is organized, giving the teacher more control in the classroom.
- Student who are motivated, it will create a classroom that learning and teaching is taken seriously.
- The student tends to have respect toward the teacher.
What is Strict Discipline ?
Disadvantages
McLeod, S. (2007) Edward Thorndike. Available at: http://www.simplypsychology.org/edward-thorndike.html (Accessed: 1st April 2016).
Strokes, R. (No Date) Philosophy of Teaching and Behaviour Management Plan. Available at: https://rachelastokes.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/behaviour-management-plan.pdf (Accessed: 1st April 2016).
Linsin, M. (2009) Broken Windows Theory And Classroom Management. Available at: http://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/2009/06/18/broken-windows-theory-and-classroom-management/ (Accessed: 1st April 2016).
McLeod, S. (2007) Skinner - Operant Conditioning. Available at: http://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html#mod (Accessed: 1st April 2016).
- Cause antisocial behavior in later in life.
- Reduce self esteem, led to the child having low self esteem.
- Can also reduce the child's creativity and critical thinking
- In some cases it can cause physical injury to the child
- Make the child feel like that they always need to be told what to do
- Strict discipline will discourage the student to attend to the classroom.
- Student will try to act rebellious against the teacher.
- Strict Discipline can be described as a harsh punishment for misbehavior.
- Discipline teaches children to follow the rule and behave properly.
- Its intention is to teach the child to realize the consequence of their action.
Barriers to managing strict discipline.
Reasons
Theories
- Some think that teachers don't care about them.
- favoritism
- Others don't want to be in school at all.
- They don't consider goal setting and success in school important anymore.
- Students are unaware that their adolescent behaviors will result in punishment they won't like.
- Discipline enforcers have to go through long procedures of due process: hearings, specific charges, witnesses, and appeals.
- Self esteem
- Vague rules
- Teacher-student relationship
- Time-out and detention.
- enforcement
- Role modeling (Bandura).
- Legal procedures
- Troubled students.
- Behavioural modification - B.F. Skinner : increasing or decreasing the frequency of a behaviour or altering a behaviour through negative or positive reinforcement.
- Adlerian approaches - Alfred Adler : theory endeavors to increase each student’s sense of belonging and subsequent appropriate behaviour by developing a democratic relationship within the classroom, where students and teachers share a mutual respect, cooperation and encouragement
- Broken windows theory - James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling : is used to promote order in classrooms. Enforcing rules and standards of behaviours in a school.
- Law of Effect - Edward Thorndike : a behabiour followed by pleasant consequences will be repeated and a behaviour followed by unpleasant consequences will be stopped.
What works
- Reaching success through involvement.
- Parental involvement.
- Alternative schools.
- School scheduling.
- School ID's.
- recognition of school as a learning environment.
- positive discipline or PD (Behaviorism).
- Assertive discipline (Lee and Marlene Canter).