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Instead of taking the role of a Boss and have students adjust to the job the teacher defines, lead and facilitate to achieve high quality product.
Unfulfilled needs can result in misbehaviour.
(Need for Love)
Pupils can take drastic measures to gain attention.
However, this will result in lesser acceptance by others, especially if these measures are disruptive.
(Need for Control)
When teachers are too controlling, students may become rebellious. Teachers will feel that they are not responsible enough to use their freedom wisely, hence further increase their control, and causes more rebellion misbehavior.
Conclusion
Needs should be recognised and satisfied before patterns of inappropriate behavior develop. Teacher can avoid these problems by discerning children's needs and by helping them satisfy their needs legitimately.
Teachers are facilitators and routinely solicits student opinion.
Overemphasis of one need may result in other needs being deprived.
All children have needs for control and freedom.
One’s domineering need for control may deprive others of chances to satisfy their needs for control and freedom.
Conclusion:
Glasser states that it is important to teach children to balance their needs as well as others because self-centeredness may result in them losing all opportunities to satisfy all their needs (when they lose their friendship).
Example (Teachers’ Pictures VS Pupils’ Pictures)
Teachers expect students to sit quietly in class, turn in all work, pay attention, study ard and write excellent papers.
Students expect teachers to let them out early for recess, never give out homework and provide treats and parties.
Conclusion
It is rarely possible that we can change each others’ behaviour, but we can change the pictures in our heads.
Any experience students have that consistently satisfy their basic needs.
Fits learning task to the skills of the students and makes clear that there will be consequences for everything.
Provide student with a model to compare and to improve their work, producing work of higher quality.
A place staffed with qualified personnel that may be able to help students when they gets too disruptive.
We always have control over what we do, even when we behave destructively. When you strive to satisfy your own needs for control, you deprive others of their sense of personal control. As a result, deprive yourself of love and acceptance by others.
Conclusion
It is important to balance between satisfying your needs and others needs as well. It is difficult to satisfy the needs of pupils in the current school context and unless there is a radical restructuring of schools to meets their needs, discipline and bad behaviour problems will continue to be an issue in most schools.
Disruption in classes can be eliminated by the seven connecting habits that builds positive relationships
Caring
Listening
Supporting
Contributing
Student
Teacher
Encouraging
Trusting
Befriending
1. Goals of instruction
Students guided to make informed decisions about curriculum. Purpose is to promote student ownership.
2. Classroom rules
Rules are set by students with goal-achievement and impediments avoidance in mind. Students are better served by rules they create themselves within the context of selecting their own learning activities.
3. Classroom Operations
Letting students come up with procedures to facilitate learning helps students to improve the climate of the class.
4. Commitment
Class is to accept the goals, rules, procedures or to reconsider before accepting.
5. Consequences
Students to be guided to decide on consequences should there be infractions to the rules..
Class to come together to discuss and set up expectations and behavior.
Students to raise questions about classroom situation during a session.
Student self-reflection and evaluate their own educational experience.
Corrective approach to inappropriate behaviours
Glasser advocates students to be grouped in teams of 2 to 5 of varying levels of achievement for long-term projects to better satisfy pupils’ learning needs.
Several benefits include:
Glasser established the William Glasser Institute to promote his theories to not only schools but also to communities.
Success story: Apollo High School