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CH 9 - Creating a Positive Learning Environment
Creating Positive Learning Environments
Helps students feel safe and secure Enables students to take health risks Creates more opportunities for student
learning Assists with positive personal
development
Harassment
Verbal: teasing, name-calling, threatening, and taunting
Relationship assaults: gossip, destroying relationships, and exclusion from social interactions
Physical assaults: hitting, kicking, shoving, and weapons use
Harassment (Cont.)
All aspects of harassment have existed among youth for generations
Your Turn
Think back to when you were in elementary, middle, or high school.
Based on the previous definitions of harassment, do you remember harassing, being harassed, or watching someone be harassed?
What do you recall? How did it make you feel?
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (1999)
The YRBSS sampled thousands of students in grades 9-12. Their report is located: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4905a1.htm.
Findings from YRBSS
The second leading cause of death among youth today remains homicide (18.6%).
More youth today feel unsafe about coming to and staying at school than youth from decades ago.
Approximately 5.2% of youth surveyed missed school at some point during the 1999 school year because they felt that their safety was threatened.
Verbal Harassment: Words Do Hurt
Verbal harassment may have the following consequences:
May leave deep emotional scars on our young people.
May lead to physical violence. May negatively affect the recipients self-
esteem and self-image
Reasons for Verbal and Physical Harassment
Bias Prejudice Hatred Jealousy Fear Ignorance
What is Positive Discipline?
Discipline means the training necessary to produce or establish a specific pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.
Positive discipline works to create an inclusive environment where students want to come to learn and participate.
Positive discipline emphasizes teachers catching students doing things well or correctly.
Negative Discipline
Negative discipline is grounded in reactive behaviors on the part of the teacher.
The emphasis is on catching students doing something wrong.
Your Turn
Recall your physical education experiences.
How did your teachers discipline students?
What were the benefits and limitations of these approaches?
The Art of Positive Discipline
Establish clear rules about classroom routines, student behavior, and learning protocols.
Establish clear consequences for breaking rules.
Never use exercise as punishment or tactics that instill fear or humiliation in students
What are your rules?
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What are your protocols/procedures
Locker room? Students not dressing out? Roll call? Warm-ups? Getting equipment? Fire drill? Others. . .
How will you convey that information
To the students?
To parents?
To the administration?
Establishing Positive Discipline in Your Classes
Examine personal biases and assumptions about students.
Self-fulfilling prophecy cycle Use inclusive language.
Establishing Positive Discipline in Your Classes (Cont.)
Use equitable language Monitor appropriateness of student
language. Interrupt ALL forms of harassment. Pay attention to the physical
environment.
Be Aware of Everything – DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK
Be Aware of Everything – DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK
Teaching strategies for positive discipline
Help students get to know you and one another.
Establish ground rules for the class. Post ground rules in the gymnasium or
locker rooms. Determine consequences for poor
behavior and post these as well.
What are your consequences?
They should be in a hierarchy
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Teachers with Effective Discipline are proactive
Dos Be assertive Act Be consistent Communicate clearly Set realistic goals Treat students with
courtesy
Don’ts Be aggressive React Be inconsistent Be vague Set unrealistic goals Nag, threaten
Teachers with Effective Discipline (Cont.)
Dos Convey interest &
enthusiasm Maintain composure
Don’ts Be disinterested and
bored Lose temper
Teachers with Effective Discipline (Cont.)
Are good planners-
-Meet students at the door
-Teach students their rules
Are good managers-
-can see all students at all times
-have equipment readily accessible
Have high traffic areas free of congestion
Developing social skills
Stating clear rules and consequences does not guarantee good behavior.
The purpose of developing social skills is to teach students how to behave positively with one another and how to cooperate.
Include social concepts such as trust, respect, honesty, trustworthiness, responsibility, cooperation, and integrity.