Journal #5

My Discipline Model
(Form #5)

NAME: Laura Michelle Weed Instructor: Dr. Sharon Johnson

My Discipline Model Name: Cooperative Discipline and Love and Logic

Brief, narrative description of the model:
Cooperative Discipline
• People are social beings and desire to belong.
• Students are rational decision-making organisms.
• All behavior is purposeful and set toward social goals.
• Students do not see reality as it is, but only as they perceive it to be.
• A student’s misbehavior is the result of faulty reasoning on how to gain recognition.

Love and Logic
• Adults set firm limits in loving ways without anger, lecture, or threats.
• When a child causes a problem the adult hands it back in loving ways.

Overt Teacher Behaviors:
Cooperative Discipline
• Once the teacher determines the faulty goal, which is motivating the student’s behavior, the teacher confronts the student, engages them in friendly conversation, and confirms the mistaken goal to the student.
• The teacher then confronts the student in order to verify the motivation for the behavior.
• Once the motivation has been established, try some of the following techniques in order to effectively reach the student.
• Minimize the attention
• Legitimize the behavior
• Do the unexpected
• Distract the student
• Notice appropriate behavior
• Move students
• Make a graceful exit
• Use a time out
• Set the consequences
• Use concrete Learning Materials and Computer-Assisted Instructions
• Teach one step at a time
• Teach positive self talk
• Make mistakes okay
• Build confidence
• Focus on past successes
• Make learning tangible
• Recognize achievements

Love and Logic
• In a loving way, the adult holds the child accountable for solving his/her problems in a way that does not make a problem for others.
• Children are offered choices with limits.
• Adults use enforceable statements.
• Adults provide delayed/extended consequences.
• The adult’s empathy is “locked in” before consequences are delivered.

Covert Teacher Behaviors:
Cooperative Discipline
• This model of discipline relies on the teacher studying the behavior of the student and gather information to be able to determine which faulty goal is motivating the student’s behavior.

Love and Logic
• Teacher is sure to take care of themselves by not owning the problem but giving it back to the student.


Educational Insights: What glimpses, indications, signals, warnings, or advice would you offer to a new teacher based on your experience and your new knowledge gained from this course?
• There are many different options and ways to discipline students.
• You have to find the one that fits best for you and your students!
• It’s all trial and error

Strengths:
Cooperative Discipline:
• Helps teacher uncover mistaken goal
• Teacher is able to adjust plan for goal using techniques – confronting, class meetings, role-playing and sociometric testing
• A system of mutual respect
• Replaces punishment with logical consequences
• Focus is more on the attempts to improve than on the improvement.

Love and Logic
• The teacher gives the problem right back to the student for them to solve.
• The teacher gives choices and allows the student to reap the consequences of that choice.
• The teacher is able to squelch an argument before it starts.
• The teacher is able to delay consequences.
• The teacher always appears to be on the kids side.

Limitations:
Cooperative Discipline
• Difficult to determine mistaken goal
• Limited demands on the students achievement
• Difficult to determine logical consequences
• Class meetings can strain relationships of participants
• Students don’t see the connection between their actions and logical consequences.

Love and Logic
• Student has control over choices. Teacher just facilitates.
• There might not be a great time to deliver delayed consequences.
• It is very easy to seem sarcastic!

Why do you believe your model will work with students?
Cooperative Discipline
• This model recognizes that every behavior has a motivation. If a student comes into my class and starts yelling, it has nothing to do with me but everything to do with the goal the student is trying to achieve.
• This model gives many options to deal with behaviors. You are bound to find one that works with your student.

Love and Logic
• Love and Logic is all about relationships. Students have to take control, while the teacher is in the background rooting for them. So many times as teachers, we try to do everything for the students and are exhausted at the end of the day. Although we might watch the kid fall on their face, it generally only takes once or twice before the kid learns.
• The anti-arguing statements are amazing! They allow you to stop an argument and continue on with the rest of your class without losing your cool and your integrity.