Theoretical Basis
Who influenced Dreikurs model?
Alfred Adler
How many preventive strategies are there?
4
Name one of Dreikurs corrective strategies.
1. understand student's motives for behaviour
2. respond to student's spoken goals
3. change student's mistaken goals
4. exchange mistaken goals for positive goals
5. encourage discouraged students
6. invoke logical consequences
Provide an example of what students do to attract attention to themselves
showing off to the class, disrupting the teacher, appearing lazy, ask for special favours, etc.
According to Dreikurs, what is behaviour driven by?
Individual’s purposes
True of False?
Autocratic teachers fail to notice how important rules are in the classroom.
False, that’s permissive
What is a reason for inadequacy?
Over ambitious, sensitive, or competitive
What is one of the different attention seeking behaviours?
active constructive attention seeking
passive-constructive attention seeking
active-destructive attention seeking
passive-destructive attention seeking
What are a student’s two groups of belonging?
Family and school
How is praise different from encouragement?
Praise focuses on level of achievement while encouragement highlights the value of learning.
What should a teacher avoid when dealing with a power seeking student?
power struggles or giving into demands
Why should teachers not give attention in response to students’ attention-seeking behaviour?
The innapropriate behaviour will increase
How might a first child’s behaviour change when a second child is born?
The child will want to regain lost status
Is it a logical consequence to send a child to bed without dinner if they arrived to dinner late?
No, this is an example of a punishment
What is physiological point of view?
Teachers understand the private logic of their misbehaving students.
When would students display inadequacy?
When they fail to achieve a sense of belonging through attention, power, or revenge seeking behaviours