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In Pursuit of Positive and Proactive Behaviors – The Challenge Every school wants to provide a safe, preventive, and positive learning environment, but recent shifts in societal and cultural norms have given rise to reactions that can be injurious, uncivil, and discriminatory. Creating and maintaining positive and proactive school discipline plans while preserving societal values and norms is more challenging than ever. Urges to get toughand enact zero tolerance policies may give impetus, but not tools. Schools are often left wondering how to address problematic behaviors, make real change happen, and accomplish their intended goals. Seven Steps shows practitioners and pre-service educators what, why, and how to build effective school-wide discipline practices using both data and documented successes. It offers a step-by-step process that maximizes teaching and learning and prevents problem behavior while establishing and maintaining desirable behavior to enhance school success. Seven procedural steps show how to: • Develop, teach, and maintain schoolwide behavior expectations • Correct problem behaviors • Sustain your plan for the long haul Get started in creating a positive and supportive environment by exposing students to the best possible practices by all teachers in all settings.
Step 5: Correcting Problem Behavior
Step 5: Correcting Problem Behavior
This particular chapter on addressing problem behavior, in the authors’ opinion, is one of the most challenging to implement effectively in schools. A major reason is that there has been a long-standing practice in education that problem behavior needs to be punished, and if the problem behavior recurs, then we need to deliver stronger punishment that often results in suspension or expulsion, frequently leading to the student dropping out of school. In effect, a student infraction–punishment cycle develops that can all too often result in exclusion from education for the student. The prevalence of this practice was addressed more fully in Chapter 1.
However, a primary underpinning of a proactive approach to schoolwide discipline taken in ...
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