Positive Discipline As a teacher, when you instruct your students on a procedure or a policy and later learn that the students have not done what you instructed them to do, how would you react? Hand out punishment, or, try to analyze why they did not do what they were asked to do. When I
Author Archives: Jim Jordan
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Principles of Discipline What is discipline? When this question is asked, most people tend to answer that “discipline” is enforcing a certain set of rules in order to correct behavior or handing out punishment when behavior is out of order. Most of us tend to believe in discipline as reacting to negative behavior. We forget
Here we go again. At least 3 times a day we receive calls from parents stating that students and parents are reporting the bullying and the school is doing nothing. I mean nothing, not documenting, reporting or investigating. More importantly the school is not even making sure that the students are in a safe school
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Well, it’s finally here with the new Website. https://www.reportbullying.com/ a new design and interface. we have added more anti-bullying videos, testimonials, and an overall easier template to follow everything that we can do at https://www.reportbullying.com/ Our main focus is on the role of the bystanders but our program is complete with exercises, reporting systems, and
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Bullying in Schools often finds it difficult to help out students who are bullied and to teach a lesson to those who bully others. Both the issues are very serious and sensitive to tackle. The foremost problem is that such events often don’t come to the notice of teachers and authorities. Victims of bullying are
Unless an employee entirely understands what they do, they can easily fail on WHY they are there. However, good communication provides a better understanding to all employees of their job, and more importantly how they fit into the WHY or the mission of the company. Employees, who believe that what they do is the only
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A light bulb Manufacturing Company hired a consultant to analyze the cause of continuing problems among its various divisions. The management suspected communication issues and the consultant was asked to focus specifically on this aspect. The consultant went into the plant and started by spending some time asking a few key questions of a number
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In today’s schools, we find many elementary schools using the zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullying. Putting a strong hand down and not tolerating bullying in any way seems like the right approach. Parents seem to be happy that schools say no to any bullying that maybe occur at their child’s school. So how
From the National Education Society they have found that 98% of teachers believe it is their duty to intervene , document and follow up with bullying incidences. The fact is that less than 50% of teachers are properly trained to deal with bullying. I have attached a YouTube video to help teachers and parents deal
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I had the great opportunity of speaking in Sioux Lookout just north of Thunder Bay Ontario this week. This school was a First Nations school. The students were so polite and excited about reducing bullying in their school. I have been at this school on three other occasions and the last two times when I