1. Alfie Kohn Classroom Management EDUC 360
Beyond Discipline
Alfie Kohn
Classroom Management
EDUC 360

2. Beyond Discipline operates under the premise:
Students are responsible for their own behavior
Students are capable of controlling their own behavior

3. Beyond discipline looks like
A student-directed management style
Teachers allowing students to experience natural consequences
Absence of physical or psychological punishments

4. Beyond discipline
Does not promote removing student with misbehavior from the classroom
Creates a unconditional community
Designs classroom as a safe place

5. Beyond discipline Promotes creating a sense of belonging
Teaches unconditionally
Has high expectations with unconditional acceptance
Sees student separate from behavior

6. Kohn promotes…
Working with children to encourage their social and moral development which means…

7. Utilizing children’s need…
To be able to make their own decisions
To belong
To learn and apply learning

8. So focus on… Learning Classroom environment Set of values vs rules
Natural curiosity and need to learn

9. Community environment has
No competition
No rewards
Words of encouragement
Respect
Sense of belonging
Class meetings

10. When misbehavior happens…
Focus on curriculum
What is the purpose of the task?
Is the learner constructing new information?

11. Emphasize a curriculum based on
Students’ affinities
Opportunities to construct new knowledge
Working with peers
Group projects
Multiple learning styles

12. Remember students are…
Compassionate
Sympathetic
Courteous
Curious
Constructivists creating their own knowledge