Mr. Santini's Decision-Making Model

1. The decision-making model for guidance of child behavior involves going through four steps: observing, deciding, acting, and reflecting. Mr. Santini, Sean, and Anne have observed Jakes behavior of cursing. We know that Jakes behaviors were observed as all the teachers are discussing it the day of occurrence. Mr. Santini is the cooperating teacher for both Anne and Sean. Mr. Santini has Anne and Sean think about whose problem it is that Jake curses. The first step of the decision-making model observing, involves also deciding whose problem it is. At first Anne states that Jake is in the problem whereas Sean states that he gets it from his father. Mr. Santini examines the context of the problem by taking into consideration of what both Anne
One thing would do differently is I would focus a lot on making it clear to Jake why cursing is not okay. I think it’s important that Jake understand that his behavior is not appropriate and why it is not. Jake may or may not think that his behavior is inappropriate. It is likely that Jake did observe this behavior. In my opinion he had to learn it from somewhere. If it has been observed that the father swears I do see why Sean would assume that he got it from his father. However, I think in this situation it doesn’t matter so much where he learned the behavior from. What matters is how the behavior is going to be corrected. In my opinion it can be likely that this type of behavior is dealt with effectively. In the heat of the moment I believe that a teacher is going to want to react immediately to this type of behavior. The reaction is all depending on the teacher and themselves and their practices. I believe that the automatic reaction is likely to either be dripline or explaining why cursing is not okay. Even if a teacher decides to discipline the child for cursing the teacher still would hopefully tell the child why they are punishing him or her. In this situation, the effectiveness of a teacher’s discipline can go either