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Consequences
By Liz
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Make sure that your consequence relates directly to the misbehavior.
If a child is calling students names, the consequence of their action would be to apologize. When we do something mean, we say "I'm sorry". I teach third graders, and when that happens they write the person they were disrespecting a note of apology. This includes me. It might not work at first but pretty soon they will be tired of writing apologies.
If my students are talking, especially when I am teaching, I just stop and wait for them to finish. The time it takes for them to quiet down, I take that time from the whole | |
class at recess. If they want to waste my time, I will waste theirs. It is pretty effective for me to take the whole class recess away, because this motivates other students to help quiet the talkative students down or to not get involved in conversation at inappropriate time. I have a VERY talkative class, and they have quieted down a lot since the beginning of the year.
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