The purpose of this paper is to identify strategies for preventing and managing classroom discipline problems that any teacher, even a student teacher, can use successfully. Sixty-eight student science teachers, during their first weeks of student teaching, each reported, in an account of a well-remembered event about classroom management,…

A unique approach to dealing with truancy gives students "instant" credit for work completed at the end of each marking period. (Author/MLF)

After examining the results of polls and other indicators of attitudes toward discipline in the schools, the author concludes that our perception of the problem has not changed significantly in 25 years and that the solution, self-responsibility, is the same now as then. (IRT)

Cites incidents of assaults against teachers and offers some safe-school tips, a plan that helps cut crime, and advice to school executives to provide support and consolation to battered teachers. (MLF)

Reports on a survey of English primary school head teachers and educational psychologists' opinions on disruptive behavior. Sixty-two percent of the head teachers and thirty-one percent of the psychologists believed the onset of disruptive behavior was getting earlier. (Author/JDH)

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)

Instead of time off from school, suspended students experience a long day, with minutes seeming more like hours unless they are willing to get to the tasks at hand. (Author)

The model presented is intended to return discipline to a legitimate place in education and educational research; it focuses on three elements--pupil development, ecological factors, and disciplinary approaches. (DS)

Reports the results of a study of the discipline alternative, in-school suspension, in which disruptive students are removed from the mainstream and placed in a specialized program within the school. Identifies four areas in which discrepancies were found between what was planned and what actually happened. (Author/WD)

Results suggest that perhaps too much emphasis is placed on the more extreme aspects of student discipline when the most prevalent types of student misbehaviors are relatively mild and may actually be more dangerous to student and teacher morale than to the physical well-being of persons or property. (Author/IRT)

Describes use of a checklist, giving immediate feedback on specific items, to control individual behavior problems of students. (LD)

Summarizes discipline procedures for students with disabilities, as put forth in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 1997. Discusses discipline procedures for exclusion from current placement of 10 days or less; discipline procedures for suspension/expulsion of more than 10 days; and discipline procedures for weapons/drug offenses and…

Many surveys confirm a substantial number of discipline problems in schools, but not many surveys are aimed at their identification. Identification of discipline violations is indispensable for prudent planning of their interventions in and prevention of their occurrence. Earlier studies focused mostly on the teachers' perceptions of discipline…

In this article, the author addresses the concern of a teacher with students who exhibit discipline problems. She presents several suggestions to help make children obey and respect the teacher. Some of her suggestions include: (1) greeting each child by name at the door as they arrive; (2) standing tall and using a firm voice to convey authority;…