Describes a method for controlling minor incidents of disruptive behavior and failure to prepare for class. (MCG)

Good discipline is important because no group of people can work together successfully without establishing standards of behavior, mutual respect and a desirable system of values that leads each person in the group to develop self-control and self-direction. (Author)

A program where students are supervised and disciplined for improper actions operates successfully at Hemet Junior High School in California. (Author/MLF)

Offers basic guidelines to deal with student discipline. Suggests that everyone connected with the school and district must develop and enforce strategies designed to magnify learning and behavioral expectations and to redirect students unable or unwilling to participate in the activities of education. (JOW)

This article is about strategy and presents 23 suggestions of what to do to modify student behavior. (Author/RK)

The establishment of a code of discipline leads to better classroom management. Using behavior modification techniques discipline problems are minimized and both teachers and students are the winners. Lists seven rules for the music room and describes methods of positive reinforcement and appropriate punishment. (CS)

Tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the normal ad hoc, finger-in-the-dike application of punishment for discipline problems be replaced by prepunishment, a philosophical innovation advocating that children who are justly punished for being naughty before the fact, are obviously less likely to be repeating offenders. (DE)

The case against corporal punishment in the schools is made, and alternatives to it are suggested. Readers are asked to respond to a tear-out opinion poll. (JL)

There are different ways to conceptualize management's controls and, within a particular management goal, there are many views about how to think about management. Teachers should promote the goal for students to develop their capacity for self-regulation. (JOW)

Corporal punishment is still legal under various circumstances in the United States public schools. This practice is specified in the discipline policies of cities and towns in roughly twenty-two states. Corporal punishment usually takes the form of paddling with wooden paddles or sticks by school administrators with the consent of the parents.…

Some schools are providing teachers with a special resource co-teacher to provide crisis intervention services for pupils when their coping capacity begins to fall apart. (RC)

Produced for the Washington State Board of Education's Subcommittee on Discipline, this lengthy bibliography lists books, annotated professional articles, ERIC research reports, films available through state educational agencies, and other resources on school discipline. A roster of professional speakers with their topic specialties and other…

Identifies and discusses some successful alternatives for coping with classroom behavior problems. (FL)

Discusses the importance of pupil control problems of public secondary school personnel and the development of models of custodial and humanistic ideologies. (HOD)

Surveys the ideas of William Glasser and Herbert Kohl on discipline and then evaluates them by reviewing both their strengths and weaknesses. (Author/MLF)