Cooperative Discipline
In Linda Albert’s article on cooperativice discipline she addresses why students misbehave in the classroom and that is because they have to meet a universal psychological need—the need to belong (Charles, 2006). I have witnessed several behavior issues in the classroom that I am in currently and I do believe like the Albert mentioned in the article that they are seeking a universal psychological need but don’t know how to do it without misbehaving. Linda Albert calls the students behavior which are four mistaken goals: attention-seeking, power-seeking, revenge-seeking, and avoidance-of-failure (Charles, 2006). I have one student that falls under the attention-seeking behavior, this student shows off, calls out anything, and ask irrelevant questions all throughout the school day. The student’s behavior distracts others because of the blurting out during class when someone is talking or trying to answer a question, decides not to do his work and instead ask irrelevant questions to waste time to not do the assignment. Then the student constantly turns their head to look at others and comment on anything to upset the student or the student will stretch so far back that their hand or head disturbs another student. With the student doing all these the other students trying to learn get so upset then it starts into an argument between those students. I do stand by the student and that helps sometimes but then the student will ask an irreverent question. I have used phrases “Other students can’t concentrate” or “I can’t hear what the teacher is saying.” Two of the examples Linda Albert mentions are “stand behind the offending student, and use I-messages such as I find it difficult to keep my train of thought when talking is occurring (Charles, 2006). The one thing I would have to try would be to recognize good behavior when they are indeed behaving properly. Sometimes teachers get lost in the bad behavior students have that when they actually behave well the recognition is not given to those students. Not all teachers fail to recognize, teachers are really busy individuals and sometimes they honestly forget. According to Albert the goal of classroom discipline is the same everywhere—helping students learn to choose responsible behavior.
In Linda Albert’s article on cooperativice discipline she addresses why students misbehave in the classroom and that is because they have to meet a universal psychological need—the need to belong (Charles, 2006). I have witnessed several behavior issues in the classroom that I am in currently and I do believe like the Albert mentioned in the article that they are seeking a universal psychological need but don’t know how to do it without misbehaving. Linda Albert calls the students behavior which are four mistaken goals: attention-seeking, power-seeking, revenge-seeking, and avoidance-of-failure (Charles, 2006). I have one student that falls under the attention-seeking behavior, this student shows off, calls out anything, and ask irrelevant questions all throughout the school day. The student’s behavior distracts others because of the blurting out during class when someone is talking or trying to answer a question, decides not to do his work and instead ask irrelevant questions to waste time to not do the assignment. Then the student constantly turns their head to look at others and comment on anything to upset the student or the student will stretch so far back that their hand or head disturbs another student. With the student doing all these the other students trying to learn get so upset then it starts into an argument between those students. I do stand by the student and that helps sometimes but then the student will ask an irreverent question. I have used phrases “Other students can’t concentrate” or “I can’t hear what the teacher is saying.” Two of the examples Linda Albert mentions are “stand behind the offending student, and use I-messages such as I find it difficult to keep my train of thought when talking is occurring (Charles, 2006). The one thing I would have to try would be to recognize good behavior when they are indeed behaving properly. Sometimes teachers get lost in the bad behavior students have that when they actually behave well the recognition is not given to those students. Not all teachers fail to recognize, teachers are really busy individuals and sometimes they honestly forget. According to Albert the goal of classroom discipline is the same everywhere—helping students learn to choose responsible behavior.