The author’s behavior management plan is for primary school grades (1-3). She plans to use many ideas from many different models of behavior management. The models that she takes her ideas from are Glasser, Kounin, Ginott, Dreikers, Canter, Jones, Albert, Nelson/Lott/Glenn, Coloroso, Kohn.
Some preventive elements in the author’s plan would include having the children and the teacher together decide on classroom rules and go over them in some way once a week which goes with the Dreikers Model of the democratic classroom and the Albert model. Another preventive element would be to set up a system of rewards and have them posted so that students would always be able to see it to remind them of what would happen if they do act appropriately. The consequences for breaking school and classroom rules would also be posted as a reminder to the students which goes
One corrective element would be reasonable consequences as noted in the Glasser and Dreikurs models. Another corrective element would be time-out when misbehavior occurs. The teacher and student would at a free time sit down and talk about what happened and how the student can make a better choice next time. The teacher may also have the children write the rule that they broke 15 times as a consequence for breaking the rule. The author likes the idea from Coloroso that says consequences should be reasonable, simple, valuable and practical.
Some supportive elements that will be used in the author’s classroom are from the Ginott & Canter models, using “I” messages instead of “you” messages in expressing the teacher’s feelings toward the student at the time. For instance, when a child misbehaves, the teacher tells them “I don’t like that” instead of “I don’t like you