Classroom Discipline Go your

• Situation Shut home

up!
• Reasons
• Remedies You know
nothing!

No !

That is not
your
business !
Cant!
 Situation
• Abnormal Classroom Situation
- no accepted classroom behavior
- unwarranted emotional outbursts
- lying without feeling guilty
- no ‘delaying gratification’
- no guilty feelings
- ready to face any situation
- constant disturbances
 Situation
• - cheating but does not feel guilty
• - disrespect for the teachers, institutes, cultural
values etc. etc.
• - expression of regret often, but repeats the
same misdeed
• answering back
• etc.etc.
 Situation
• {Important}:
• {Important}:
NO PROPER WORLDVIEW!
NO PROPER WORLDVIEW!
World view is the view of one’s
place in the society and the
world.
 REASONS
Main one: Lack of Emotional Control

• No previous training in classroom behavior

• Home background
• Social Influences
• Sociological background
• No training in values
• No training in sharing feelings
• Etc. Etc.
 Classroom
TRUE?
Children have to vent out their
urges, emotions, etc., and express
feelings within the school time too.
 Classroom
TRUE ?
Teachers entering the classrooms period
after period determined to impart
everything they have prepared, without
allowing the students to change their
positions or talk even few words with their
friends, create a stressful environment in
the classroom.
 Classroom
TRUE ?
The stressful environment in the
classroom is expressed more by
the students who are already
emotionally disturbed because of
their home or social backgrounds.
 Children take every possible
opportunity to vent out their
repressed or suppressed emotions
whenever they get chances.
 TRUE ?
The most mischievous student
in a class is the one who is
demanding most love and most
affection from the elders, to
receive which he or she
misbehaves.
O.K., O.K., .
but do…
do… not
pe..pe..pess
that !
 Remedies
- empathy not antipathy
- students learn to share feelings
in peer group discussions
- constant counseling
- guiding on the values of positive
thinking
- creating a broad awareness in
the adult society
 Parents
• Don’t leave your elderly children to look
after themselves and pay attention only to
the young ones.
• If you do so, those elderly children would
feel rejected and they may form gangs
ands seek love and comfort among
themselves.
• Show the elderly children equal love and
affection and make them learn
responsibilities.
 Parents
• Love and affection should be shown not
only by words but by physical expressions
too.
• Over criticism would make children
obstinate. The more you criticize a child,
the more obstinate he or she should
become.
• Use only good words with your children.
 Parents
• Recognize their feelings and accept them
in words and physical expressions too.
(e.g. In an instance a child has discovered a
new thing in the computer and is excited
about it, and needs someone to share that
joy of discovery, be with him or her and
appreciate it by words and showing proper
feelings.)
 Parents
• Make your elder children love the younger
children. Make the younger ones love and
respect the elder ones.
• When feeling rejected by the parents, the
children form gangs among themselves, or they
feel to engage in premature love affairs to seek
the lost love and affection. They never succeed
because they cannot get parental love and care
from those in the same age groups.
 Parents
• Make your elder children love the younger
children. Make the younger ones love and
respect the elder ones.
• When feeling rejected by the parents, the
children form gangs among themselves, or they
feel to engage in premature love affairs to seek
the lost love and affection. They never succeed
because they cannot get parental love and care
from those in the same age groups.
 One suggestion
There have to be some sports
activities, musical activities, library
reading, free periods, some playing,
teaching out door (e.g. under a
tree) etc. etc. within the school time
too, which could make the children
get some relief from their
unnecessary destructive urges.
 Daniel Goleman
In some American schools where discipline
was a problem, Daniel Goleman the
psychologist, managed to improve both the
academic performances and the disciplinary
situation by making the children learn to
recognize emotions and share feelings.
 DanielGoleman
Teachers who were unwilling to participate
in the sessions of students recognizing
feelings and sharing them, asked for more
such lessons later.
 END
• Goodbye!
Actually, actually,
these are based on
some of my real
experiences!

E-mail rasubasinghe@yahoo.com C R.Subasinghe 2005