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Classroom Discipline and Behaviour Management Strategies
Classroom management combines preventive strategies (clear rules, routines) with responsive techniques. Kounin's model emphasizes withitness, overlapping, momentum, smoothness and the ripple effect. Canter's Assertive Discipline stresses calm, firm, consistent teacher responses using rules + positive recognition + consequences. Behaviour modification (Skinner) uses reinforcement (positive/negative) and token economies to shape behaviour. Dreikurs advocates logical consequences over arbitrary punishment. Restorative practices repair relationships through dialogue rather than only punishing.
Important topics
- Kounin's concepts: withitness, overlapping, momentum, smoothness, ripple effect
- Assertive Discipline model of Lee and Marlene Canter
- Behaviour modification through positive and negative reinforcement
- Token economy and its application in classrooms
- Preventive/proactive vs reactive discipline strategies
- Logical consequences approach of Rudolf Dreikurs
- Restorative practices for conflict resolution
- Establishing classroom rules and routines