2) Teaching with a lot of control is easy, because you are the only one you are responsible for. If you mess up, YOU messed up, so YOU fix it, and find a way to prevent it in the future. It is a simply more focused manner of teaching. If a student has a problem, they come to you and nobody else. You are the teacher and the students are the learners; there is no gray area. You, as the teacher, will have to do even more work, I believe, in this situation, because you must prepare for when things go wrong. You must come up with hypotheticals, whereas when only you were the teacher, the only hypotheticals were how the students would react to what you did. The students have much more control in this new situation, and can therefore lead the classroom environment in a totally different direction. You, as the teacher, must be prepared for this.
Although more difficult and risky, handing some control over to the students would definitely be worth it (that's how it usually is with difficult and risky things!). The students would be able to experience having responsibility and control, and it would be a great lesson in how to manage those two things. I believe it would also create a more bonded community, as the students would have a common "duty" or job.
Logical consequences and instructional consequences are similar but not exactly the same. Logical consequence is basically, making the student right their wrong. Correcting the issue in a way that isn't really punishing them, but fixing the problem. The examples in the book are pretty spot on: cleaning up a mess that they made, fixing what they broke.
ReplyDeleteInstructional consequences is to revisit what happened and providing examples of how it should have went down. It is redoing the situation, but with the result ending in the proper way. Like the book said, a student talking or disrupting the line would result in the teacher making the class sit down again. They would reline up with the teacher explaining the proper way to stand in line and providing the example of a student standing quietly in line.