Discipline and Management In The Classroom

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Discipline and management are two terms that are used in regards to teachers and classrooms in schools today. What exactly does discipline and management mean? Are these two terms related or are they different? Why are they important in today’s educational setting? The answers to these questions can have a huge impact on the success of a teacher in the classroom.

Picture the following: In classroom A, the students are all quietly working in small groups as the teacher walks between the groups lending support when needed. In classroom B, the students are all quite in small groups as the teacher walks between the groups lending support when needed. Upon first reading of these two situations you would first think that these are two well run classes, until you realize that in classroom B it does not say the students are working. How does this example reflect discipline in the classroom? The students in classroom A have been taught self discipline, where the students in classroom B, have some self discipline (being quite) but not the self discipline to be actively engaged in their school work.

“To discipline means to instruct a person to follow a particular code of conduct or order. In the field of child development, discipline refers to methods of modeling character and of teaching self-control and acceptable behavior.” (Papalia, Wendkos-Olds, & Duskin-Feldman, 2006) The word discipline has several meanings, as a noun it means, a controlled behavior or self control, and as a verb it can mean to train, teach or punish. In the educational field, C.M. Charles describes it as a “Teacher’s efforts to maintain classroom decorum and secure students cooperation in learning and exercising self-control.” (Charles, 2011,p. 6)

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...I have subbed in. I would hope that the years of coaching students and the discipline that I have taught for sports will carry over into my own classroom.

Therefore we can safely assume that a well managed classroom will have well disciplined students within. If the teacher manages all aspects of the classroom, this will include teaching the students the proper behavior for that classroom. When a teacher does this effectivily, the teacher and students will enjoy the class much more, and as Robert Marzano states together they will achieve more.

Works Cited

Cantor, L. (2006). Classroom Management for Acedemic Success. Bloomington: Solution Tree.

Charles, C. (2011). Building Classroom Discipline (10th ed). Pearson.

Papalia, D., Wendkos-Olds, S., & Duskin-Feldman, R. (2006). A Child's World: Infancy

Through Adolescence (10th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

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