Essay Question- Describe and justify your eclectic approach to management that you would adopt in your own teaching. Flashcards
What needs to be in the introduction?
- B.F. Skinner- Behaviour modification model
- Behaviour is learnt as students experience the consequences of previous actions and events
- Rudolf Dreikurs- Democratic Discipline Model
- Human beings all have a need to belong and be accepted (taught to work as a community)
- William Glasser- Choice theory, reality therapy and lead management
- All our behaviour is an attempt to satisfy one or more of the basic five needs: survival, love, personal power, freedom and fun
- Thomas Gordon- Teacher effectiveness training model
- Good communication will prevent misbehaviour, promote good-teacher student relationships and make connections for students that will assist learning and success
- Bill Rogers- Positive Behaviour Leadership model
- We act on the basis of our beliefs and assumptions. People will fulfil their obligations when they understand and are committed to the reciprocal nature or rights and responsibilities
What is the topic of paragraph 1?
The nature of children`
What are the theorists who you agree with on the nature of children? Include any preventive and/or corrective strategies.
- B.F. Skinner- Behaviour modification model
- Students respond to external stimuli (contexts)
- Corrective strategy for behaviour- Rules-Ignore-praise
- Specify rules clearly, ignore disruptive behaviour
- Praise the children for following the rules
- Students respond to external stimuli (contexts)
- William Glasser- Choice theory, reality therapy and lead management
- Students are driven by innate needs for survival, love, belonging, power, freedom & fun
- Preventive strategies
- Use open-ended classroom meetings and collaborative learning
- Preventive strategies
- Students are driven by innate needs for survival, love, belonging, power, freedom & fun
What are the theorists who you disagree with on the nature of children?
- Thomas Gordon- Teacher effectiveness training model
- Students are valuable, worthwhile, equal with each other and capable of self-regulating their own behaviour
What is the topic for paragraph 2?
The relative degree of control and coercion in the classroom
What are the theorists who you agree with on the relative degree of control and coercion in the classroom? Include any preventive and/or corrective strategies.
- B.F. Skinner- Behaviour modification model
- Students need guidance from teachers in order to behave properly
- Corrective strategy
- Using a token economy to show students the acceptable and unacceptable behaviour
- Corrective strategy
- Students need guidance from teachers in order to behave properly
- Rudolf Dreikurs- Democratic Discipline Model
- Teacher cannot force students to do anything but they can help students to understand why they behave the way they do and, then help them find legitimate ways to satisfy their needs
- Preventive strategies
- Establish logical consequences
- Corrective strategies
- Understand students’ motives for behaviour e.g. Attention-seeking, power-seeking, revenge-seeking, displaying inadequacy
- Preventive strategies
- Teacher cannot force students to do anything but they can help students to understand why they behave the way they do and, then help them find legitimate ways to satisfy their needs
What are the theorists who you disagree with on the relative degree of control and coercion in the classroom?
- Thomas Gordon- Teacher effectiveness training model
- Students commonly rebel when teachers actively regulate their behaviour
- Depends on the nature of the student
- Students commonly rebel when teachers actively regulate their behaviour
What is the topic for paragraph 3?
Students’ self-government
What are the theorists who you agree with on the students’ self-government? Include any preventive and/or corrective strategies.
- Thomas Gordon- Teacher effectiveness training model
- Students can learn to manage their own behaviour
- Preventive strategies
- Reduce reliance on power
- Preventive strategies
- Students can learn to manage their own behaviour
- Bill Rogers- Positive Behaviour Leadership model
- Students need to feel as though they belong to the group, and will engage in a range of attention seeking behaviours to achieve this objective
- Preventive strategy
- Create a positive classroom tone
- Preventive strategy
- Students need to feel as though they belong to the group, and will engage in a range of attention seeking behaviours to achieve this objective
What are the theorists who you disagree with on the students’ self-government?
- B.F. Skinner- Behaviour Modification Model
- Students cannot learn to be responsibly self-governing
- Rudolf Dreikurs- Democratic Discipline Model
- Students can learn to understand their own motives and, consequently, are able to eliminate their own misbehaviour
What is the topic of paragraph 4?
The role of choice
What are the theorists who you agree with on the role of choice? Include any preventive and/or corrective strategies.
- B.F. Skinner- Behaviour modification model
- All behaviour is learn and, therefore can be changed by the teacher
- Corrective strategy
- Teacher needs to model correct behaviour and using the Rules, ignore praise strategy and a token economy will allow behaviour to be modified by the teacher
- Corrective strategy
- All behaviour is learn and, therefore can be changed by the teacher
- Rudolf Dreikurs- Democratic Discipline Model
- Giving students a choice between at least two alternative behaviours offers a sufficient basis on which they can learn to be responsible
- Corrective strategy
- Respond to and change students mistaken goals
- Corrective strategy
- Giving students a choice between at least two alternative behaviours offers a sufficient basis on which they can learn to be responsible
What are the theorists who you disagree with on the role of choice?
- William Glasser- Choice theory, reality therapy and lead management
- Students may be given a wide range of options from which to choose in their attempt to satisfy their needs
What is the topic of paragraph 5?
The role of the teacher
What are the theorists who you agree with on the role of the teacher? Include any preventive and/or corrective strategies.
- B.F. Skinner- Behaviour modification model
- Teachers manipulate the environmental stimuli (rewards/punishments) to obtain the behaviours they want in their students
- Corrective strategy
- Teacher needs to model correct behaviour and using the Rules, ignore praise strategy and a token economy will allow behaviour to be modified by the teacher
- Corrective strategy
- Teachers manipulate the environmental stimuli (rewards/punishments) to obtain the behaviours they want in their students
- Rudolf Dreikurs- Democratic Discipline Model
- Teachers allow students to experience the natural and logical consequences of their behaviour, and help them take responsibility for their own behaviour by learning about the connection between each behaviour and its consequences
- Preventive strategies
- Establish logical consequences
- Avoid reinforcing or provoking misbehaviour
- Preventive strategies
- Teachers allow students to experience the natural and logical consequences of their behaviour, and help them take responsibility for their own behaviour by learning about the connection between each behaviour and its consequences
