Rules
Leverage on Discipline
Student Accountability
Teacher Attitude
Bonus Qs
100
What is Rule 1?
Entering the room properly, ready to learn.
100
What does Seganti use for leverage?
A 15 minute after school detention. A suspension from class until the student has served their detention.
100
Should students and the teacher write the class rules together?
No the teacher is the professional they should write and enforce the rules.
100
Why does Seganti think that disruptive behaviour is so detrimental?
Because it interferes with other students constitutional rights to a good education.
100
Why does Seganti suggest you keep your students busy from bell to bell?
So that students do not have an opportunity to talk or disrupt.
200
What is rule 2 and how does Seganti teach it?
Respect. Teachers should model the behaviour that is unacceptable in terms of respect.
200
What do students do during their detention?
Copy out the class rules.
200
How does Seganti avoid arguing with students?
He uses statements instead of questions. Or stares them down.
200
Seganti believes that students and teachers are equally important in the classroom. True or False
True but he does not believe they are of equal status.
200
How can you avoid being manipulated?
Respond to attempts at manipulation by stating rules or giving detentions.
300
When can a student come back to the classroom after being sent out?
Only the next day once they have served their detention.
300
Why does Seganti use detentions?
Students need a reason or leverage to follow the rules. It is more uncomfortable to not follow the rules than to follow them.
300
What are reasons that Seganti would give a class suspension instead of a just a 15 minute detention?
Defiance Repeated disruption Gross disrespect
300
Why does Seganti believe how you dress makes a difference to your teaching?
Dressing professionally projects authority. It creates a psychological difference between you and your students.
300
What are alternatives if after school detentions are not possible?
Arrange to have a student write out the rules in another classroom with another teacher. Have the whole class recopy the rules if there are many misbehaviours. Lunch suspension
400
Name two of Seganti's other 9 rules.
3. Work on task. 4. Eliminate distractions. 5. Beginning the period. 6. Be ready for work. 7. Attending to miscellaneous behaviour. 8. Permissions and procedures. 9. Teacher requests and directions. 10. End of class. 11. Clarifying the system of consequences.
400
What does Seganti do if the whole class is misbehaving?
He has the entire class copy out the class rules.
400
Where should the teacher be the first time the students come to enter the classroom?
At the doorway not letting students in until they are ready to learn.
400
Should teachers offer rewards to promote learning?
No a good education should be reward enough.
400
How does Seganti suggest you cultivate quiet in your classroom?
For the first two weeks of class have all the work be silent reading and writing so that students learn that classrooms should be mostly quiet and then you can introduce more group work.
500
How many warnings does Seganti give?
The first day of teaching the rules serves as a warning. There are no other warnings.
500
What happens if you skip detention?
Seganti will not let students back into class until: Caretakers have been notified Student has recopied class rules Student has served his/her detention
500
Seganti is adamant that rules are only effective if you do what two things?
Enforce them and are consistent.
500
What does Seganti mean by 'rely on action'?
Words don't mean much, don't spend time arguing or cajoling students. Use action, give detentions.
500
How does Seganti arrange his classroom to promote learning?
He has the students keep the room in neat rows, and each student is responsible for cleaning around their desk. He also keeps two desks beside his own for more disruptive students. He has assigned seats and uses them to memorize names.
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