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Rice, Joshua E.; LaVergne, Douglas D.; Gartin, Stacy A. – Journal of Career and Technical Education, 2011
The purpose of the study was to analyze agricultural education teachers' attitudes toward selected school components as motivational factors to continue teaching and demotivational factors to discontinue teaching. Using a mail questionnaire, the researchers employed a census study of agricultural education teachers in West Virginia (N = 90).…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Discipline, Agricultural Education, Teacher Motivation
Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute (NJ1), 2010
In the early 1990's faculty at Johnson and Wales University performed a quick study on the behaviors or shortcomings that were likely to get a new college hire fired. Their top five reasons which included failure to take the initiative, failure to follow instructions, being late to work or with assignments, poor communication abilities, and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Entry Workers, Dismissal (Personnel), Ethics
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Moriarty, Anthony – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2009
Most Monday mornings are noisy affairs where students and staff members are catching up on the events of the weekend. Sometimes these events are disputes that have festered over the weekend and are now ready to get settled. When a confrontation between students occurs, noise levels accelerate, students begin running, and an unnerving combination…
Descriptors: School Safety, Safety Education, Risk Management, Emergency Programs
Brock, Stephen E., Ed. – Communique, 2009
This article presents summaries of two recent crisis management publications: (1) "Social Validity of the CISM Model for School Crisis Intervention," summarized by Jack R. Dempsey; and (2) "School Violence: Associations With Control, Security/Enforcement, Educational/Therapeutic Approaches, and Demographic Factors," summarized by Ashlee Barton.…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Crisis Intervention, Violence, Crisis Management
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Arum, Richard; Preiss, Doreet – Education Next, 2009
School discipline is a critical area for research, as student interaction with school institutional authority is one of the primary mechanisms whereby young people come into contact with and internalize societal norms, values, and rules. It is thus significant that the number of cases reaching state and federal appellate courts has surged back up…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Student Rights, Discipline Problems
Freedberg, Louis; Chavez, Lisa – EdSource, 2012
During the past several years, there have been growing concerns regarding the effectiveness of school discipline policies, as well as their disproportionate impact on African American and Latino students. For at least a decade, questions have been raised about district-level "zero tolerance" policies that have contributed to larger…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Zero Tolerance Policy
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Irwin, L. H.; Anamuah-Mensah, J.; Aboagye, J. K.; Addison, A. K. – International Education, 2005
Civil behavior is highly treasured and expected of students and members of the general public in Ghanaian society. The function of families has been, and is, to raise children to behave in traditionally accepted ways. Traditional behavior pattern translates into respect for authority, be it classroom rules or laws of the land. Both parents and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Behavior Problems, Intervention, Discipline