PERCEPTIONS OF CONSCIOUS DISCIPLINE. Education, 132(3), 589-599.
This article discussed the results from seventeen early childhood special educators that rated the significance, appropriateness, and effects of Conscious Discipline in a preschool setting. As curriculum has made continuous changes, classroom management approaches have been consistently based on behavioral theories and systems of rewards and punishments. Conscious discipline is a classroom management system that focuses on the development of social and emotional learning, which is stated as, “the process by which children learn to recognize emotions in themselves and others, manage their own emotions, …show more content…
(2013). How Fern Creek Is Beating
Goliath. Educational Leadership, 70(8), 66-70.
This article is about a small urban school where the students’ face many problems such as poverty, homelessness, mobility, instability, limited parent involvement, and violent neighborhood surroundings. To work against these problems the school started by creating a strong school family through the conscious discipline practices. After implementing this management system the school noticed many positive changes, “Four years ago, we had 376 discipline referrals from teachers, which resulted in 109 suspensions from school. Over the past three years, we’ve had zero suspensions and only 44 discipline referrals.” This incredible transformation shows how implementing conscious discipline into the classroom provides students with the skills to appropriately handle day to day stressors.
Hoffman, L. L., Hutchinson, C. J., & Reiss, E. (2009). On Improving School Climate: Reducing
Reliance on Rewards and Punishment. International Journal Of Whole Schooling, 5(1), …show more content…
Conscious discipline teaches the skills to develop emotional intelligence, which is the ability to identify, assess, and manage emotions to better communicate, solve problems and build relationships. For this study more than two hundred pre-kindergarten through 6th grade teachers from four elementary schools and four early childhood centers completed training and implemented Conscious Discipline into their classroom. The results showed that by implementing this system into classrooms a more positive school climate was created. The information from this article will help provide more understanding to how implementing conscious discipline into the classroom can help build students confidence and give them the skills to manage