W. H. Yount: Chapter Seven Analysis

W.H. Yount’s chapter 7 discusses several roles of the teacher. These include environmentalist, disciplinarian, and Self manager. He further breaks down the area of disciplinarian into three small groups. These groups include proactive coping, remedial coping and logical consequences. Each year I like to re-evaluate my disciplinary plan. As a teacher, my role is to is to guide with a stern hand, nurture with a loving heart and guidance from God, and education each student. The story that comes to mind is one that involves one of my seniors, her name was Mary. She was the most challenging student of this past year. Her personality and mind clashed in the worst way possible. In my class, I work hard to be proactive by walking around so that
It always took her ten minutes or more to settle down. But she never completely stopped talking and disrupting other students. I gave her nonverbal clues when her talking became too disruptive but she never acknowledged them at all. Then, I tried to use verbal interventions and had her stay after class. I discussed what was acceptable and what was not acceptable in my classroom. It was like I was talking to myself with this student. Her main goal in my room was to be the most disruptive person possible. As time went on, I finally had to call home for her behavior. The behavior improved slightly after discussing this with her mother but quickly reverted to the behavior before. I then tried using logical consequences with Mary such as having her apologize to the class about her talking and disrupting others. I had her stay for detention afterschool like I do for my young students. She had not remorse at all. I thought that maybe she need the attention so I tried to ignore the behavior at this point but it only got worse. By the end of the third nine weeks she was completely out of control and she and I knew it. Her behavior was totally unacceptable in my classroom. I finally resorted to a conversation I do not