It is our responsibility as teachers to find the balance between enforcing discipline in the classroom and adhering to the law simultaneously. This matter illustrates the complexity that one cannot completely factor out the enforcement of discipline as it is a vital part of a child’s development. We need to think beyond the horizon and explore novel approaches to how one can provide a learner with the distinction between right and wrong. By discovering alternatives to corporal punishment today, we can help sculpt the framework for the society of tomorrow. Teachers need to be well informed regarding these matters so that no gray areas appear when a learner misbehaves.
1. The Problem Statement
Section 10 of the South African Schools Act 84 clearly
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This is a great way to do research and find out why the learner is acting out. One can also collaborate with the parents to work out a system on how to deal with the learner.
• If the problem stems from a lack of interest in the work or the learner’s environment, one can get additional help from the student guidance council to further investigate the cause of the problem.
• Relationship-building and praising of the learner may also have a positive effect.
• Learners are very attentive to the behaviour of their teachers, that is why you should always lead by example.
• Restorative justice can be used to illustrate to the learner how the situation could have been handled and how to prevent future problems.
• Be aware of the age type with which you are dealing with, different age groups need different approaches when enforcing or maintaining discipline.
• In all circumstances, be respectful and constructive and never shout or act erratically when dealing with a learner. As the educator or school staff member, you should always be in control of your emotions and the situations. If it seems as if it is spiraling out of control, consult your Head of Department to mediate the
In the early 1900’s, corporal punishment was a very common practise among all schools. Corporal punishment was allowed to be committed by teachers in almost every situation, but at Trinity there was a different story. Only the headmaster was allowed to commit corporal punishment and if so, “on extreme occasions”. Although the government has since banned corporal punishment for non-government schools in 2006. Other states are still yet to take action and corporal punishment is still allowed in non-government schools.
Punishments and violence in child education remain as something that never left humanity since the beginning of the age. Parents ordinarily conducts punishments, even incorporating violence on it for the right cause. Moreover, in a majority of cultures and history, the common belief incites that punishments must act as the absolute way of disciplining and raising a child right. But in recent times, researchers and scholars who have conducted the study and are claiming that violence and punishment for the children, even the mild ones, are never to be done since it affects the children negatively. Using various elements of nonfictions, ethos, pathos, and logos, in the article “No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems” author Khazan attempts to persuade
I need to let the child know I care and help them the best I can. If a student is falling asleep in class or skipping homework If I build a relationship with them and their parents I already have an idea on what’s going on and can come up with solutions to try and
Some parents follow the bible verse, “if you spare the rod, you spoil the child.” An author, Micheal Pearl has written a religious literature titled, “To Train Up a Child” explaining the multiple tools that parents can use including plumbing tubes, wooden spoons, belt, or a willow-branch. In September 29, 1999, an older daughter complained to the Salvation Army after the history of her family’s corporal punishment. The 17 year old now lives outside the family home. This is significant because the judge’s ruling tend to stray away of parents who use corporal punishment.
The teacher should make sure that each student is involved in the lesson, ask process questions, open-ended questions, be patient when waiting for answers to these questions, and ultimately never say anything a kid can say. This method is something that I would like to implement in my future classroom. I know that it will take practice and perseverance, but it is something that I know I can
School Suspensions Are a Waste of Time Would you take school suspensions away if it would benedict the school? Many school have always used school suspensions as their way of chastisement, simply because it is the easiest way. School suspensions became popular around the 1960s and 70s because many more fights were occurring due to desegregation. Although school suspensions are widely used throughout most schools, it is time we found a more effective way of discipline. School suspensions are not working because students may not understand what they did wrong, suspensions feel more like time off than a punishment, and students are more likely to act out again after being suspended.
In the article “No Spanking, No Time-out, No Problems”, Olga Khazan uses many rhetorical strategies to support and persuade her audience. That traditional punishment methods of parents will not change a child’s/children’s unruly behavior overall, but positive reinforcement will increase the chances of better behavior not only now, but in the future as well. “Positive reinforcement is the presentation of a pleasurable consequence following a behavior” (Craighead). This twist to traditional discipline teaches children to work towards a resolution instead of teaching them to lean toward violence. “For example, the way that parents discipline their children is how children discipline their peers” (Khazan).
A four-year-old is still developing the concept of cause-and-effect and the beginnings of understanding empathy. Only discipline, causing pain to the four-year-old (and by pain, I do not necessarily mean physical pain) teaches him/her what is allowed.” This comment backs what I stated about a child learning to respect authority. From a more scientific approach in a Newsweek article that followed a nurturing study related to spankings conducted by Drs. Jennifer Lansford and Ken Dodge revealed some insightful details on the effect on corporal punishment in early age development this is apparent when the article states
The readings explore the ethical and non-ethical approaches to spanking on children. The author begins by introducing a Bill that was proposed by a California assemblywoman Sally Lieber to ban spanking in the country. However, the reading explores the good and bad sides of effecting the proposal on the American community. The reading explores the opinions of several critics to the bill. In some instances, the reading uncovers data from different countries that banned spanking on children and compare its effect to the society.
All of the different types of restorative justice are being used widely around the world. There is even an international celebration of restorative justice that lasts for a week! Since victim offender conferencing is the practice that is most widely used, it is rather well written about. Howard Zehr in The Little Book of Restorative Justice, Revised and Updated, explains that “some of us question the wisdom or usefulness of such a definition.
By addressing challenging behaviors of young exceptional children in school, Lee and Marlene Canter have designed a structured systematic approach in assertive discipline, to assist educators in running an organized environment and positively influence their students’ behavior in the classroom. Teachers should insist on responsible behavior from their students. They believe a firm, teacher-in-charge classroom is the best interests of their students and the most important classroom rule is “follow directions”. They make sure to teach students acceptable behavior through modelling, explanation, and practice.
For many, spanking a kid is deemed to be one of the best ways to raise a kid. Since the previous generations, also known as the older generations were raised this mode, many accredit that applying the almost exact same method on their kids can lead these youngsters to learn and grow straight, therefore expecting that a spanked kid will aftermath in a prospective society with future gracefully informed and well educated adults. However, corporal punishments aren’t indeed the appropriate way neither the best solution to deal with the misbehavior of a little bairn. Spanking a kid, whether it’s with bare hands or a flat object, may lead some kids to actually rebel against their family.
I. Introduction A. P. J. O 'Rourke once said “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them” (O’Rourke, Pg.10). Parents always want their children to be better than what they used to be when they were at their age; that is why they care about every detail in their children’s life especially when it comes to behavior, obeying them and listening to their words. B. Background Information: i. People came to realize that physical punishment is a rough, atrocious, unacceptable mean of punishment that should be banned for its appalling, horrifying effects. ii. Facts about physical punishment (sources used) 1.
Any punishment that is used should be pre-planned and mildly unpleasant. Students should know the consequences of inappropriate behaviors and quietly adhere to the outcomes of their actions (Charles,
There must be Willingness of the teacher to accept responsibility for classroom control and Long-term, solution-oriented approaches to problems. Techniques for Better Classroom