This document discusses positive discipline techniques for teachers. It emphasizes developing rapport with students, understanding developmental norms, playing games students enjoy to build relationships, teaching mutual respect, understanding the purpose and triggers of problem behaviors, being proactive by modifying the environment, replacing undesired behaviors with acceptable behaviors, having clear expectations and consistent consequences, effective communication, catching students being good with praise, and role playing problem scenarios.

1. Positive Discipline
Diana Cortese (BASIS Program Lead)

2. Teacher for 40 years explains what she sees
as the most important aspect of teaching.
Video of Rita Pierson

3. Need to have basic knowledge of the
population you are working with.
Rapport Building 101

4. Use one word to describe this child
Think of one of your students….

5. ● Preschoolers are physically active and
energetic
● More energy at the age of 3 than any
other age
Developmental Norms for
Preschoolers

6. ● Just starting to acquire social skills
outside of the home
● Emotional, Cognitive and Physical
development is telling them to explore
● Lots of ideas of how the world should
operate
Developmental Norms

7. Learn specific games and activities that
each child likes
Play WITH that child in that game
Pairing

8. Teach respect by being respectful
Be mindful of your tone, sighs, eye
rolls
Mutual Respect

9. What presses your buttons??
Problem Behavior

10. ● Why is this student acting out?
● What is the purpose?
● How is it being reinforced?
● What are the triggers for the behavior?
Understanding Behavior

11. What are some environmental modifications
that can be made to prevent problem
behavior?
● visually
● tangible
● class wide
● individualized
Be Proactive!

12. We know what behavior we want to
decrease…
What behavior can we increase that serves
the same purpose (as the undesired
behavior) for the student?
Replacement Behavior(s)

13. ● Don’t assume students know how they
are expected to behave
● Explain behavior, model behavior, check
for understanding
● Reinforce other students for appropriate
behavior before punishing another for
inappropriate behavior.
Replacement Behaviors

14. ● Expectations are clear
● Consequences are consistent
● Applied fairly to all (if class wide plan)
● Age appropriate
● Not psychologically or physically harmful
Positive Behavior Plan

15. ● Model the listening you expect from your
students.
● Say what you mean and follow through
with kindness
● If you can’t say it respectfully, don’t say
it
Effective Communication

16. Students should always know:
● What they should be doing
● Where they should be
Effective Communication

17. ROLE PLAY!

18. Working through Problem
Behaviors

19. ● Use affirmative language
● Acknowledge small or neutral things
● Reinforce incompatible behavior
Catch them being good

20. Thankyou!