Case Study: Win-Win Discipline

Scenario Miss. McDaniel is a 4th grade teacher at West Hartsville Elementary School. This is her first-year teaching at this school and her third year working as an educator. In her 4th grade class she has seventeen students that she is responsible for educating. Miss. McDaniel has minimum behavioral issues in the classroom, but when discipline issues due occur they are often associated with a male student named Bobby Miller. Bobby is a 4th grade student at West Hartsville Elementary in Miss. McDaniel’s class. He often disrupts class and ignores the teacher when being reprimanded for his behavior. Bobby often denies being given any instructions on his behavior and is reluctant to making any changes in his behavior. When Bobby is confronted
Bobby exhibits noncompliant behavior in the classroom. He ignores the teacher and makes noises and talks during instruction. The teacher should use the Win-Win Discipline approach as a behavior management approach to address Booby’s issues. This behavior management approach is designed to hand discipline problems at the moment of the disruption using powerful and proven discipline strategies, and it also targets the students ‘unfulfilled needs which is often the root of discipline problems (Kagan, 2002). The Win-Win discipline strategy allows teachers and students to work together to find solutions to behavior problems. With this approach everyone benefits, hence, the label “Win-Win”. Using the Kagan behavioral model, Win-Win Discipline, the teacher can actively address the students’ behavioral and basic needs by identifying the behavior, determining the students’ position, choosing a behavioral strategy to respond to the behavior, and implementing follow-up and long-term
The teacher should provide physical proximity along with hand or facial signals. To address Bobby’s control- seeking behaviors the teacher will acknowledge the student’s power and providing the student with language that expresses choice. The teacher will also offer Bobby options of how or when assignments can be completed. Finally, to help keep Bobby engaged in classroom instruction the teacher will make sure all lessons are structured and students are actively involved in the lesson. The teacher will also do short interactive activities throughout the lesson to help keep students engaged and to energize