Summary of My Theory for Classroom Management
When managing my classroom, I plan to model Barbara Coloroso’s theory of Inner Discipline. This means I will be concerned with having students think about their behaviors and how their behaviors impact others, rather than with providing punishments and consequences. Inner discipline models means helping the individual student to solve their own problems. This is done with the teacher’s guidance and sometimes instruction on useful strategies to solve your own problems through inner discipline.
This theory works great with all students, but especially beneficial to a group of students that need help in the United States. Students that live in poverty and often have many problems in their lives. They need to learned strategies to solve these problems on their own. In fact, a study in educational organization by Luvern Cunningham (1976) said that teaching students how to solve problems through third parties and inner decision instruction could greatly improve problem solving for urban education. These particular students have many problems and being taught the inner discipline to solve these problems on their own would prove even more beneficial to these students then any others. You may ask why I care that the Inner Discipline model is useful for urban students, this is because I plan to teach in an urban school with students who are in great need of a solid role model and a young teacher that they can relate to. Because of this I feel using the Inner Discipline model will increase my chances of improving these students lives and improving my ability to teach effectively.
While I seek to best prepare my students for solving their own problems and seeing how their choices impact others, I also want to best prepare them for the real world. Inner discipline allows this to occur. In fact, an article by Meredith Brandt, and Robb Christensen (2002) stated that learning problem solving strategies, such as inner discipline, improves social skills and levels of responsibility. This means by using Inner Discipline I will be teaching my students social skills that will help them all throughout their adult life, and we all know that adults need to be able to communicate with their coworkers and bosses as well as with customers in all types of jobs.
The theory I will model is Barbara Coloroso’s Inner Discipline. My main reasons for choosing this theory is because of the training it gives students to prepare for adulthood including social skills and increased level of responsibility. Additionally, it will help poverty students to be able to know how to solve their own problems which is huge for me since I plan to work with these types of students.
This theory works great with all students, but especially beneficial to a group of students that need help in the United States. Students that live in poverty and often have many problems in their lives. They need to learned strategies to solve these problems on their own. In fact, a study in educational organization by Luvern Cunningham (1976) said that teaching students how to solve problems through third parties and inner decision instruction could greatly improve problem solving for urban education. These particular students have many problems and being taught the inner discipline to solve these problems on their own would prove even more beneficial to these students then any others. You may ask why I care that the Inner Discipline model is useful for urban students, this is because I plan to teach in an urban school with students who are in great need of a solid role model and a young teacher that they can relate to. Because of this I feel using the Inner Discipline model will increase my chances of improving these students lives and improving my ability to teach effectively.
While I seek to best prepare my students for solving their own problems and seeing how their choices impact others, I also want to best prepare them for the real world. Inner discipline allows this to occur. In fact, an article by Meredith Brandt, and Robb Christensen (2002) stated that learning problem solving strategies, such as inner discipline, improves social skills and levels of responsibility. This means by using Inner Discipline I will be teaching my students social skills that will help them all throughout their adult life, and we all know that adults need to be able to communicate with their coworkers and bosses as well as with customers in all types of jobs.
The theory I will model is Barbara Coloroso’s Inner Discipline. My main reasons for choosing this theory is because of the training it gives students to prepare for adulthood including social skills and increased level of responsibility. Additionally, it will help poverty students to be able to know how to solve their own problems which is huge for me since I plan to work with these types of students.
References
Brandt, Meredith; Christensen, Robb. Improving Student Skills through the Use of Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, and Direct Instruction. (2002). Web. Master of Arts Action Research Project, Saint Xavi.
Cunningham, Luvern. Systematic Approaches to the Management and Governance of Urban Education. (1976). Web. Center for Educational Administration. Haifa Univ., Mount Carmel.
Hadrin, Carlette Jackson. Effective classroom management; models and strategies for today's classrooms, 3d ed (2011). . Portland: Book News, Inc.
Cunningham, Luvern. Systematic Approaches to the Management and Governance of Urban Education. (1976). Web. Center for Educational Administration. Haifa Univ., Mount Carmel.
Hadrin, Carlette Jackson. Effective classroom management; models and strategies for today's classrooms, 3d ed (2011). . Portland: Book News, Inc.