The choice of a consequence must also address the following principles. The question is which alternative:
• Would generate the best overall consequences (i.e. Maximise benefit over harm?)
• Would make a good general rule for students to follow?
• Would help develop and maintain character in the students?
• Best promotes the common good related to your defining purpose?
• Could you live with if it was done to you?
• Would you be prepared to support in public?
• Involves the practical application of the school’s stated values and principles?
• Best protects the fundamental moral rights of individuals?
• Best affects an ethic of care?
There are two final checks you need to make before you apply a consequence. These are:
• The Integrity Test - Imagine …show more content…
• The consequences that satisfy the criteria set are labelled ‘yes’ the rest are not valid given a ‘no’ and are removed.
5. Rank the Consequences
• With the remaining consequences see if some can be combined and clarified (e.g. Various forms of time out/kept in/ etc. can often be refined to make one comprehensive step).
• The next process is to rank them from the least severe to the most severe. This allows for a staged increase in the severity of the consequence if the behaviour persists.
• It may that be for some behaviours only one consequence is required (for example when safety issues are involved there is only one action that is permissible). That is every time the behaviour occurs the same consequence applies.
6. Implementation
• After the consequences are settled on the rule is written up and displayed in the classroom. Everyone knows them and is part of their construction. Then when students break the rule they have the consequences applied in a non-personal manner, applied to their behaviour.
• More often than not some students will test the rule to see if it will be applied. These are more likely to be those who have lived in an inconsistent
• Would generate the best overall consequences (i.e. Maximise benefit over harm?)
• Would make a good general rule for students to follow?
• Would help develop and maintain character in the students?
• Best promotes the common good related to your defining purpose?
• Could you live with if it was done to you?
• Would you be prepared to support in public?
• Involves the practical application of the school’s stated values and principles?
• Best protects the fundamental moral rights of individuals?
• Best affects an ethic of care?
There are two final checks you need to make before you apply a consequence. These are:
• The Integrity Test - Imagine …show more content…
• The consequences that satisfy the criteria set are labelled ‘yes’ the rest are not valid given a ‘no’ and are removed.
5. Rank the Consequences
• With the remaining consequences see if some can be combined and clarified (e.g. Various forms of time out/kept in/ etc. can often be refined to make one comprehensive step).
• The next process is to rank them from the least severe to the most severe. This allows for a staged increase in the severity of the consequence if the behaviour persists.
• It may that be for some behaviours only one consequence is required (for example when safety issues are involved there is only one action that is permissible). That is every time the behaviour occurs the same consequence applies.
6. Implementation
• After the consequences are settled on the rule is written up and displayed in the classroom. Everyone knows them and is part of their construction. Then when students break the rule they have the consequences applied in a non-personal manner, applied to their behaviour.
• More often than not some students will test the rule to see if it will be applied. These are more likely to be those who have lived in an inconsistent