Jamie Turner of Fair Haven, New Jersey, forwarded me information about her school's website. I share it with you below. SICKLES SCHOOL RAISE RESPONSIBILITY SYSTEM What is the Raise Responsibility System? Marvin Marshall's Raise Responsibility System was designed in order to promote responsible behavior within the school community. This simple system … [Read more...]
Discipine Without Stress and Social Studies
December 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
"I am teaching a graduate course in social studies. I have experienced teachers and they are loving your book - absolutely loving it. Of course, with grad students the perspective is different. They know a truly good thing when they see it when it comes to practical ideas in the classroom. You can't fool them." Dr. Suzie McBride California State … [Read more...]
Discipline and Alarm Clock
December 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The following is from a communication to me about self-discipline: I added "Bugging" and "Breaks classroom procedures" to Level B. I also added "A piling on" to Level A because I use a football analogy. Some students choose to tease other students. This is hurtful behavior. I explain to my students that in order to … [Read more...]
Influencing A Youngster to Start Kindergarten
December 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The young boy was to start kindergarten the next day and was protesting that he would not go. This could be a real discipline challenge. A normal reaction would have been to banish the youngster to his room and tell him that he had better make up his mind to go because he had no choice. (Note: the youngster may have had no choice as to the decision but … [Read more...]
A Key Concept
December 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Assume everything you say about another person can be overheard by that person. … [Read more...]
Influence by What the Other Person Wants
December 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The most effective approach to influence others is to consider what they want. For example, one day Ralph Waldo Emerson and his son tried to get a calf into a barn. Unfortunately, they made the common mistake of thinking of only what they wanted. Emerson pushed and his son pulled, but the calf was doing just what they were doing. It was thinking only of … [Read more...]
Choice: The Foundation of Values
December 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The following is from a personal communication from Nancy Snow, District Guidance Officer, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia: "Choice is the basic ingredient for the promotion of prosocial values. If we want kids to be caring, kind, and generous, we have to have them become aware of choices. You cannot mandate responsibility, persistence, consideration, … [Read more...]
DWS and Australia
December 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I had the pleasure of presenting in the Gold Coast, Sydney, Newcastle, and Adelaide, Australia hosted by Judy Hatswell, a senior faculty Member of the William Glasser Institute of Australia. While being hosted by Judy and her husband, Gerry, a retired school principal, I was admiring their various collections when I read a postcard sent to Judy by one of … [Read more...]
A Comment from An Elementary School Prinicipal
December 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
"This should be a required course of study in every collegiate education major curriculum." Al Herring, Principal Plain Dealing Elementary School, Plain Dealing, LA Check out the Discipline Without Stress Teaching Model at http://www.marvinmarshall.com/ … [Read more...]
The Effectiveness of Asking Questions
December 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
QUESTION: I am starting DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS next week. I have the DCBA poster on the wall. But what I need is a list of verbal prompts for me to post, such as "Oops, what shall we do now?" Otherwise, it's easy to fall back into old patterns of telling—instead of asking—or imposing, instead of eliciting a solution. Anybody have such a thing? I am … [Read more...]
