Spencer Kagan's ideas with Win-Win Discipline is that it will develop lifelong responsible behavior, meaning that with collaboration between students and teachers the skills to act responsibly outside and inside the classroom can be facilitated.
Components of Win-Win Discipline
- Win-Win Discipline has three pillars that form the base of the philosophy.
2. Collaborative solutions: students and teachers collaborate on solutions to problems
3. Learned responsibility: students learn the skills to be self-directed and get to get along with others.
- Class Rules: Students and teachers work together to create a list of class rules that emulate the way both parties want their classroom to be like.
- Attention to types of misbehavior: Disruptive behavior is thought of as ineffective behavior choices
- Attention to student positions: Understanding what your students may be going through when they "act out"
- Structures: Appropriate behaviors that students can return to in order to make responsible choices
- Attention to needs: Misbehavior is a result of unmet needs
- Application of the process:
1. "Identify the category of misbehavior"
2. "Identify the student's emotion or state of mind when disrupting"
3. "Apply one or more helping structures that will stop the disruption and direct the student back to appropriate behavior"
Structures for the Moment of Disruption
Spencer Kagan believes that disruptive behavior should be dealt with before, during, and after the problem. Kagan has three examples of structures that can be used the moment a disruption occurs. They are:
1. Picture it right
2. Make a better choice
3. To you... to me.
Sources:
"Breaking News from Kagan." Kagan Publishing & Professional Development. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014. <http://www.kaganonline.com/index.php>.
Charles, C. M. Building Classroom Discipline. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.
"Breaking News from Kagan." Kagan Publishing & Professional Development. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014. <http://www.kaganonline.com/index.php>.
Charles, C. M. Building Classroom Discipline. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.