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Choice Theory in a Kindergarten Classroom
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What's the Difference?
Choice Theory in a Kindergarten Classroom
Connecting Behaviors
External vs. Internal Motivation
- Choice theory stresses internal motivation rather than external motivation.
- Students are empowered by the understanding that they control themselves.
- External motivation tools – sticker charts, rewards, etc. are not used to attempt to control student behavior.
Quality World
Perceived World
Disconnecting Behaviors:
Criticizing
Blaming
Complaining
Nagging
Threatening *
Punishing *
Bribing/Rewarding to Control *
What is Choice Theory?
Supporting
Trusting
Encouraging
Caring teacher/student
relationships are the basis of a successful classroom.
- A “personal picture album" of all the people, things, ideas, and ideals that we have discovered increase the quality of our lives.
- Students, parents, and teachers can all have very different quality world pictures!
- Understanding this and valuing each others’ quality world pictures enhances the student/teacher/parent relationship.
Accepting
Listening
Choice Theory emphasizes the importance of positive, caring relationships.
An explanation of human behavior developed by William Glasser.
His ideas about human behavior have been applied in business, counseling, and in the CLASSROOM.
Respecting
Relationships
Negotiating Differences
Comparing Place
Notes:
Discipline
Sometimes students don't do what you want them to do....
All behavior is Total Behavior...
Behavior not only includes how students act and think, but also what they feel and their physiology.
- The only way students experience the real world is through their perceptions.
- Students’ perceptions are influenced by their knowledge, experiences, and values.
- When something or someone helps a student meet his/her needs, the student's Perceived World is in line with his/her Quality World...everything goes along smoothly.
The Difference in a CT Classroom...
Why are they doing that?!
Students’ behavior (positive or negative) is an attempt to meet their own unique needs (Quality World).
Discipline is not punitive.
Freedom, fun, belonging, power, and survival are basic needs shared by all human beings.
Each child is unique and experiences these
needs in a unique way.
Students are taught to recognize and manage their total behavior.