Discipline

So I am trying to post more regularly because I know I have a lot of fans out there wondering what I have been up to. Tsjaz was reading a book called "Discipline Without Stress Punishment or Rewards". I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate the ideas from this book into my classroom. If you have any idea what my classroom is like, you know incorporating any type of discipline with or without rewards and/or punishment is quite a challenge. Basically the premise is that all classroom behaviors fall into 4 categories: Anarchy, Bullying, Conforming, and Democracy. As a class we discussed these categories and defined behaviors that would represent each category. This was after we noted that "conforming" was not the same as "being a snitch". Apparently some students thought "conforming" might be the same as being an "informant". Once we came to a consensus that, as of today, our class falls somewhere in the middle of bullying and conforming, I mentioned that our goal was to become a democracy. At this point one of the students said "Good luck with that".