ASSERTIVE DISCIPLINE
This model is developed by Lee Canter who is a child guidance specialist. He has established an organization in California called Canter and Associates, through which he provides training for teachers who want to become more assertive in their teaching. He and his wife lead workshops all over the US and the world. Canter believes that teachers have traditionally ignore their own needs in the classroom.
However, they have their own needs, wants, and feelings just as their students. For Canter, teachers must insist that their own rights are met in the classroom. These rights include :
The right to establish classroom rules and procedures that produce the optimum learning environment
The right to insist on behavior from students that meets teachers’ needs
The right to receive help in…
I want you to stop talking, turn around and face front, and pay attention to the lecture.”
Comment: Assertive teachers act in a calm, confident and businesslike manner. They let their discipline plan do all of the work. The response they desire is clearly communicated.
In assertive discipline model, the teacher has to write out a discipline plan, gives a copy to the principal for approval and sends it home to parents asking feedback and suggestions. The teacher also teaches the plan to the students on the first day of the class.
Assertive command: say name, gesture, touch, establish eye contact and tell the student exactly what to do.
“Ahmet, you knew the rules and you have chosen to break them, now you must experience the consequences (states the student’s name, points a finger at her, and then gestures toward the door and makes eye contact) I want you to stand, go out to door and go straight to the principal’s…
