1. Guide to School Discipline
A presentation for new teachers, veteran teachers, and educational leaders.
© 2005 Mark Karadimos

2. Introduction This tutorial will provide:
teachers with a number of research driven strategies and practical ideas to institute classroom environments conducive to learning,
educational leaders a framework to build successful, cohesive organizations.

3. Various Strategies Reality Therapy (RT)
Positive Approach to Discipline (PAD)
Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET)
Transactional Analysis (TA)
Assertive Discipline (AD)
Adlerian Approaches
Student Team Learning (STL)

4. Reality Therapy Form Connections Between Behavior and Consequences
Elements: Class Meetings, Clearly Communicated Rules, & Use of Contracts.

5. Positive Approach to Discipline
Treat with Respect
Grant Responsibilities
Elements: Developing and Sharing Clear Rules, Providing Daily Opportunities for Success, and Administering In-School Suspensions.

6. Teacher Effectiveness Training
Differentiate Between Student and Teacher Problems
Elements: Teaching Students Problem-Solving & Negotiation Skills.

7. Transactional Analysis
Identify Issues & Make Changes
Elements: Reaching Students By Counseling to the Child, Adult, and Parent Components of Their Psyche.

8. Assertive Discipline Define Rules & Clear Expectations
Elements: Enforcing Penalty System With Increasingly Serious Sanctions.

9. Adlerian Approaches Understanding Student’s Reasons for Behavior
Helping Students Change Behavior & Meet Their Needs
Elements: Using a Variety of Methods.

10. Student Team Learning Focus on Group Learning
Elements: Creating Cooperative Learning Environment & Using Team Learning Instruction.

11. Learning the Strategies
Awareness of Discipline Strategies
Mastery of Styles
Personal Teaching Styles
Population, Learning Environment, & Time

12. Laying a Foundation Use Short, Clear, & Reasonable Set of Rules
Focus on Positive Events
Be a Role-Model
Maintain Involvement Bell-to-Bell
Manage Conflicts Calmly
Handle All Discipline Problems

13. Preventive Practices
1) Staff committed to exercising intolerance of conditions that inhibit learning.
2) High expectations for appropriate student behavior.
3) Clearly state rules that are developed from all participants within a school, including staff, students, and administrators.

14. Preventive Practices
4) Create a warm environment where educators take an active interest in the personal goals, achievements and problems of students.
5) School leaders are visible, accessible, and supportive.
6) Teachers are expected to handle routine discipline problems. Help from the principal is provided in the form of staff development and assistance for critical situations.
7) Form partnerships with the community.

15. Advanced Strategy Three Key Areas to the Strategy
1) Cultivating Students
2) Documentation
3) Prosocial Skills

16. Advanced Strategy Desire to Help Students Grow
Cultivating Students
Desire to Help Students Grow
Understanding that Students are in Development
Lots of Patience
Time

17. Advanced Strategy Individualized Discussions
Documentation
Individualized Discussions
Get Students to Understand a Problem Exists
Have Students Brainstorm Solutions
Move to Student-Teacher Agreed Solutions

18. Advanced Strategy Metacognition
Prosocial Skills Training
Metacognition
Lifelong Framework for Handling Conflict
Problem Identification
Problem-Solving Skills

19. Conclusion Improvement is a Community Event Consistency is Crucial
AFT Guidelines
Improvement is a Community Event
Consistency is Crucial
Alternatives to Standard Education
Rigorous Standards

20. Resources
AFT. (n.d.) Tips for Student Discipline. Retrieved on August 7th, 2005 at: Cotton, K. (2001) Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
ITAA (n.d.) A Summary of Transactional Analysis Key Ideas. Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at:
Karadimos, M. (2003) Behavior Identification & Adjustment. Word Document accessible at:
Karadimos, M. (2005) Guide to School Discipline. Word document available at:
McIntyre, T. (2005) Assertive Discipline. Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at:
Steffins, P. (1995) Positive Approach to Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
William Glasser Institute (2005) Counseling With Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy . Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at:

21. Resources
WikEd (2005) Teacher Effectiveness Training. Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at:
Yorba Middle School (n.d.) Preventive Discipline/Management. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
Churchward, B. (2003) 11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
The Master Teacher (2002) Discipline Help: You Can Handle Them All. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
McGraw-Hills. (n.d.) Classroom Rules Sample and Suggestion. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at:
Wiggins, D. (n.d.) Classroom Management Plan. Retrieved on June 8th, 2005 at: