Management Of Discipline With Children

Workshop for teachers: Management of Discipline with children

ULACIT
Psychology applied to Education
Final Wokshop Presentation
Diciembre, 2011

Fabiana Alencar Cristina Ávalos Jillian Chaves Sharon MéndezMaría Vásquez
“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.” Gary Ryan Blair

General Objective
Provide teachers a helpful guidance to discipline a child, through the knowledge of different elements involved in achild’s development.
Specific Objectives
* Identify the difference between abuse and correction by means of the comprehension of the discipline concept.
* Understand how to set up norms and consequences by grasping the relationship between child characteristics.
* Determine when to reward a child accordingly through reinforcement practices.
Justification
The main reason for choosingthis theme is the current problem that exists with teachers and how they manage the process of disciplining. Also, society has changed their attitude towards punishment making now a pinch, shake, a dirty word among other mean physical and psychological abuse a way to straighten children. Furthermore, this has affected parent’s behaviors as to how strict or severe they should be with a child. All ofthis has generated much controversy on which is the best way to correct attitude if one cannot touch the child?
Children come into this world helpless and unable to thrive without us. Our job is to love and nurture them and to teach them how to live. Discipline means "to teach and train". We need to be good disciplinarians, to acquire skills that will accomplish the goal we set for ourselves,that of helping the child learn to control and set standards for him. There are several ways we can "make” a children behave. One is by using force. Another is by using fear. Still another is by punishment. Unfortunately, these three methods imply that the caregiver is superior and should overpower the child.
Rather than leading to a child with inner control, they make the child angry, resentful,fearful and dependent upon force. There is another way to discipline children. Though it may not appear to get the immediate results we might like, it is safer, more natural and humanistic. It is based on the assumption that children are by nature good, fair, and honest and ultimately capable of responding to that which is good, fair and honest within us. This method is to treat the child withrespect. It is treating the child as if he is as important a human being as you are. It is treating him with the same respect with which you wish for him to treat others, you, and himself.
Learning how to effectively discipline a child is an important skill that all parents and teachers need to learn. Discipline is not the same as punishment. Instead, discipline has to do more with teaching, andinvolves educating the child right from wrong, how to respect other people’s rights, which behaviors are acceptable and which are not. This will help to develop a child who feels secure and loved, is self-confident, self-disciplined, knows how to control his impulses, and who does not get overly frustrated with the normal stresses of everyday life. When having difficulty disciplining a child, it isimportant to remember that you may not be doing anything wrong.
All children are different and have different temperaments and developmental levels or a style of discipline that may work with other children but may not work with the rest. Parents should understand that how they behave when disciplining a child will help to determine how the child is going to behave or misbehave in the future....