Introduction
Discipline in the Backbone Classroom
Problem Solving
Difficult Students
100
This is the key to developing inner discipline.
What is problem solving?
100
According to Coloroso, these types of consequences happen naturally or are reasonable consequences that are intrinsically related to a student's actions.
What are real-world consequences?
100
This is a factor in determining the teacher’s role in the process of problem solving.
What is the age of the student?
100
In 2007, this percentage of students reported that they had been bullied.
What is 32.2 percent?
200
This type of classroom has no structure. The teacher's expectations keep changing and punishments are arbitrary and inconsistent.
What is a Jellyfish Classroom?
200
This acronym is used to determine whether or not a consequence is appropriate.
What is RSVP?
200
In the backbone classroom, Coloroso lists these six steps for teaching problem solving.
What are identify and define the problem, list possible solutions, evaluate the options, choose one option, make a plan, and reevaluate the problem and the student?
200
Direct bullying includes face-to-face confrontation and tends to peak in what grade level?
What is middle school?
300
In this type of classroom, students are told what to think, not taught how to think.
What is a Brick-Wall Classroom?
300
Coloroso identifies this clear difference between punishment and discipline.
What is discipline deals with the reality of the situation, not with the power and control of the teacher?
300
These three factors make up Coloroso’s idea of Reconciliatory justice, which she feels goes hand-in-hand with the six step problem solving model.
What are restitution, resolution, and reconciliation?
300
This type of bullying often involves a third party and results in social isolation, rumor spreading, and scapegoating.
What is indirect bullying?
400
In this type of classroom, students' feelings are acknowledged as real and legitimate, and the teacher does not judge his or her students for those feelings.
What is a Backbone Classroom?
400
In Coloroso's theory, discipline gives life to a student's learning in these ways.
What are showing children what they have done wrong, giving them ownership of the problem, giving them ways to solve the problems they created, and leaving their dignity intact?
400
This concept of “if you break it, fix it” is one of the three parts of Reconciliatory Justice.
What is restitution?
400
Coloroso feels that cyberbulling can be great than the harm caused by other bullying for these four reasons.
What is it is vicious, it is constant and provides no escape for the victim, it is worldwide, and the cyberbullies remain anonymous?
500
With inner discipline, students must be taught ______ to think, not _______ to think.
What is how and what?
500
This is what students will do to get teachers to back down or give in on punishments.
What are the three cons: begging, bribing, weeping, wailing, and teeth gnashing; showing anger and aggression; and sulking?
500
Coloroso lists this concept as a way to allow the offender to make amends in some tangible way.
What is Apology of Action?
500
Along with developing a classroom plan to help students identify a bullying incident, the text identifies these ways of creating a classroom atmosphere that prevents or lessens bullying incidents.
What are providing opportunities for students to talk about bullying, helping student develop a set of rules about bullying, providing cooperative learning activities for small group interaction, attend to students’ behaviors throughout the day (including lunch and recess) to prevent incidents, act immediately, and learn the signs of a student who may be a victim of bullying?
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