Regarding Haim Ginott’s approach to discipline:
a. Identify its strengths and weakness in working with students.
b. Suggest how the weaknesses you identify might be remedied.
What will be an ideal response?
a. Strengths of Ginott’s approach: usually are considered to be congruent communication, sane messages, conferring dignity on students, inviting cooperation, I-messages, helpfulness as teachers’ hidden asset, and appreciative praise rather than evaluative praise. Weaknesses: usually are considered to be lack of clear-cut standards or expectations of proper behavior and no clear method for dealing with misbehavior when it occurs.
b. Use your judgment in appraising student suggestions for correcting the weaknesses in Ginott’s approach. You might look for a prescription that involves students in determining standards for behavior and for dealing with misbehavior.
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