Positive Discipline
Quotation
“We have lived through an age of supermoms and super teachers, where children have learned to expect the world to serve them rather than to be of service to the world” (Nelsen, 2006, p. 26). In our efforts to create child-centered education, perhaps we misunderstood what those who coined the term actually intended. Since the days of Sputnik, parents have been made to feel guilty if they don’t give their children the best of everything so they can be better than the rest of the world. American exceptionalism was originally intended to set a good example for the rest of the world, not to be superior for the sake of being superior. The paradox is that within this philosophy, parents also used punishment to control the behavior of their children rather than actually train them to live by principles. The result has been an entitlement society. America has been weakened in the eyes of the world instead of being a country that leads.
Question
In our current society, is it advisable for teachers to meet one-on-one with students of the opposite gender? I keep my classroom door open and the student and I are always visible to those who are passing by. If at any time I feel uncomfortable talking to a student (boy or girl) in private, we go to the office where the administrative …show more content…
Even on a high school level, I have found that if I make an effort to happily chat with a student that I have recently had to discipline, it reinforces to them that I don’t hate them, that I’m not holding a grudge, that I still want a relationship with them to some degree. It also shows the other students that I don’t have favorites and that I can let issues go. Teenagers are works in progress; they are in a stage. Yes, they need training, but they are in a transition from childhood to adulthood. I appreciated that teens were addressed as having special interests during these transitioning
Quotation
“We have lived through an age of supermoms and super teachers, where children have learned to expect the world to serve them rather than to be of service to the world” (Nelsen, 2006, p. 26). In our efforts to create child-centered education, perhaps we misunderstood what those who coined the term actually intended. Since the days of Sputnik, parents have been made to feel guilty if they don’t give their children the best of everything so they can be better than the rest of the world. American exceptionalism was originally intended to set a good example for the rest of the world, not to be superior for the sake of being superior. The paradox is that within this philosophy, parents also used punishment to control the behavior of their children rather than actually train them to live by principles. The result has been an entitlement society. America has been weakened in the eyes of the world instead of being a country that leads.
Question
In our current society, is it advisable for teachers to meet one-on-one with students of the opposite gender? I keep my classroom door open and the student and I are always visible to those who are passing by. If at any time I feel uncomfortable talking to a student (boy or girl) in private, we go to the office where the administrative …show more content…
Even on a high school level, I have found that if I make an effort to happily chat with a student that I have recently had to discipline, it reinforces to them that I don’t hate them, that I’m not holding a grudge, that I still want a relationship with them to some degree. It also shows the other students that I don’t have favorites and that I can let issues go. Teenagers are works in progress; they are in a stage. Yes, they need training, but they are in a transition from childhood to adulthood. I appreciated that teens were addressed as having special interests during these transitioning