As a place of learning, school should be kept safe for both pupils and teachers.
While corporal punishment is rejected, discipline is recognised as fundamentally important in a healthy childhood:
“The healthy development of children depends on parents and other adults for necessary guidance and direction, in line with children’s evolving capacities, to assist their growth towards responsible life in society.”
Teachers can play an active role in implementing and restoring discipline at schools.
Before writing an action plan to be submitted to the principal, can we start by identifying some cases of indiscipline?
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This is an excellent initiative. I encounter indiscipline on a daily basis at the school where I teach. For instance, I observe that children often forget simple courtesy such as greeting others politely or saying thank you. Some even use foul language in class not only with fellow classmates, but also with their teachers. Moreover, teachers often have to deal with students who come to class without having done their homework. These are but a few examples of cases of indiscipline which an efficient action plan can help tackle.
ReplyDeleteHi Preity Zintok! Thank you for your suggestions and insight on the subject. I may have overlooked these examples of indiscipline. So, I will definitely add these to the action plan. I also think that many students fail to attend their class altogether and roam around school with their friends.
ReplyDeleteVanida, I also believe that the diagram shows clearly the distinction between discipline and indiscipline. I will also read the report which you provided. However, I think that before detailing the aims and objectives of the action plan, you could think of the causes of indiscipline:
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Students coming from households that have a sophisticated lifestyle tend to be egocentric and arrogant and this is because their parents often neglect them or are over-indulgent. Indiscipline of a more violent nature would emanate from students coming from a dysfunctional families where parents are drug dealers, gamblers, verbally or physically abused
- Lack of School Infrastructure and Activities
Many of the schools lack adequate recreational facilities, leaving the student to remain idle and thus providing a fertile ground for negative behaviour. When students are involved in healthy activities, there would be lesser time for mischief.
- Peer group influence
Students are invariably influenced by the way their friend or a group of friends behave. As such, students tend to get persuaded by their friends to get involved into acts of indiscipline and violence."
I agree with Jonathan. However, we need to bear in mind that the backgrounds of children, the families they come from are sensitive issues. We need to tackle this with utmost care. Else, we will take the risk of making parents too angry to collaborate with us and all efforts will go to waste. Whatever be the parents' job and/or hobby and/or addiction, it will belong to us to communicate with them in such a way that they understand how essential it is that their kids be more disciplined. Ironically, we will become the parents' teachers. We need to ensure they don't feel pressurised; in the end, they must willingly help. Personally, I feel that otherwise, the situation will never improve in the long run.
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