Ron Morrish:

Ways to Complete Phase 1

References:

http://www.realdiscipline.com/biography.php

• Be straightforward with them about wanting them to succeed.
• Encourage good behavior and self control.
• Spend time using direct instruction and close supervision so students know what is expected of them.
• If students make a mistake show them how to correct it.
• Address all instances of misbehavior, small or large.
• Make your rules and commit to them.
• Morris says insistence is the best way to ensure students' compliance.
• Use the word "rule"
• Never give students a choice when it comes to limits.
• Clearly communicate your expectations to your students without negotiation.

Who is Ronald Morrish?

Education and Behavior Specialist

Author of 3 books

Teacher from Ontario, Canada

Phase 2:

Teaching Students

How to Behave

Involved with parent groups and child care

providers from different countries

Professional Development Instructor

http://www.realdiscipline.com/biography.php

• Begin to teach them how to be courteous with each other.
• Help them learn how to resolve conflicts, set goals, organize their tasks, and organize their times.
• Don't scold them, let them redo their behavior.

Two Natural Rewards

Phase 1:

Training for Compliance

3 Phases for Guiding Students

• Personal attention
• Approval
• Morrish believes if you overuse praise that students’ motivation level reduces and increases the students’ dependency.
• Healthier attitude will form when you truly recognize them for good behavior.

Phase 3:

Managing Student Choice

• Compliance, according to Morrish, means "following directions".
• Train students to comply with rules, limits, and authority.
• Teachers need to train students to keep up respect for them.
• Make following the rules automatic so students just do it.

Scenario 3

Scenario 1

11 Steps to Planning A Good Discipline System

• Allow your students to make more choices.
• Help students realize that their choices do affect others.
• Only allow choices that will benefit students. (If students want to make poor choices, help make decisions for them and return to phase 1)
• Encourage self-discipline even when you're not around.

1. Decide in advance how you want your students to behave.

2. Design a supporting structure.

3. Establish a threshold for behavior at school.

4. Run a 2-week training camp.

5. Teach students how to behave appropriately.

6. Set the stage for quality instruction.

7. Provide active, assertive supervision.

8. Enforce rules and expectations.

9. Focus on prevention.

10. Set high standards.

11. Treat caregivers as partners.

Motivation and Rewards

How to Develop

Positive Relationships

Consequences Are NOT Punishments!!

Morrish's Strategy

• Students don’t want to obey rules, don’t want to stay quiet, don’t want to do homework, don’t want to study for tests and so forth.

That’s why we use discipline!

• Good discipline teaches students

• Make instructional activities interesting, but do not shy away from teaching students what they need to know.

• Do not praise or reward students for only doing what you expect.

o Occasional special recognition

• Consistently focus on the positive.
• Wipe the slate clean after students make behavior mistakes.
• Don't back away from discipline.
• Lead the way.
• Never humiliate students when correcting their behavior.
• Don't accept mediocrity.

"Teach students how to behave properly and insist they comply with directions."

If a student is given a consequence for pushing boundaries or doing something to hurt others he suggests to:

• Should be faced when the student misbehaves
• Consequences can be very helpful if they are structured and applied correctly
• They teach student how to behave
• Have students execute the procedure
• Morrish's favorite consequence is to have a student repeat the behavior in the correct manner.
• Have the student explain how they could have done something in a better manner and with more responsibility.

Scenario 2

• Make an improvement plan
• How can the handle the situation better in the future
• Provide compensation
• Do something positive to make up for the negative
• Making the offended person feel better OR the school/ classroom look better
• Write a letter
• Teach younger children
• Write or illustrate a story about the incident that emphases what was don wrong and what was learned from the experience.

Ron Morrish:

Approach to Discipline