Let your Wisdom be viral, not your Pain.
Often as teachers we spend most of our time managing behaviours. As humans our first choice at correcting behaviours is inflicting a punishment of some sort as a corrective measure. Let's take a situation - A child throwing pencil case from a distance at another student who also might be a party to receiving it. An immediate response could be detention, calling up parents, giving extra work or so on. But this is not going to reform the students' actions. It might be a good idea to temporarily remove the student from the situation but it is not the solution to the problem. In order to bring about a reform , two things are a key: 1. An ongoing rapport with the student ensuring a free dialogue. 2. An action suggesting repair done to the stakeholders affected. REFORMATIVE Or PUNITIVE ? After an incident has occurred, it is important to address the situation and start a dialogue to engage the student to identify and regard the harm done due to their action. A dialogue needs to ...