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Week 7 PPLE - tutorial notes
Course: Promoting Positive Learning Environments (6732)
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University: University of Canberra
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Week 7: Discipline through self-restitution and moral
intelligence
Diane Gossen
Give up trying to make students do anything. Adopt an approach, consistent with
student needs, that entices and invites cooperation. Strive for the least coercive
road without becoming permissive
Establish a social contract with your class, specifying what the class believes in.
Use that contract as the foundation of your discipline system
Clarify teacher and student roles in the classroom and expect teachers and
students to take responsibility for the roles that apply to them
Use restitution in the more serious instances of classroom misbehaviour, as a
means of helping students strengthen themselves
Michele Borba
Make character building a central part of your discipline system and include it in your
curriculum. Create a moral learning community where students know how to behave
and want to behave because they feel safe, respected, and cared about. Become a
living example to your students of solid character
Do not assume students know how to behave appropriately: Explicitly show them
how to do so. Directly teach the seven virtues and point out examples of people
displaying virtuous behaviours, giving students examples to emulate
Involve students in creating their class rules and expectations. Choose the four to
eight most important rules (your “core class values”) and write them in the language
of virtues, such as, “Use self-control by keeping your hands and feet to yourself.” “Be
responsible by being in class on time and having your work completed.” Post them as
visual reminders
When students misbehave, remind them of class expectations. Ask if they are being
the kind of people they want to be. Ask what they plan to do to improve their
behaviour. Keep students accountable for their behaviour so they recognise they
have choices concerning their actions and that actions have consequences
