What School Characteristics Are Associated with Discipline Problems?
When
Johns Hopkins University researchers Gary D. Gottfredson and Denise C.
Gottfredson analyzed data from over 600 of the nation's secondary
schools, they found that the following school characteristics were
associated with discipline problems: Rules were unclear or perceived as
unfairly or inconsistently enforced; students did not believe in the
rules; teachers and administrators did not know what the rules were or
disagreed on the proper responses to student misconduct;
teacher-administration cooperation was poor or the administration
inactive; teachers tended to have punitive attitudes; misconduct was
ignored; and schools were large or lacked adequate resources for
teaching (cited in Gottfredson 1989).
After
reviewing dozens of studies on student behavior, Duke agreed with many
of the Gottfredsons' conclusions. Orderly schools, he noted, usually
balance clearly established and communicated rules with a climate of
concern for students as individuals, and small alternative schools often
maintain order successfully with fewer formal rules and a more flexible
approach to infractions than large schools typically have.
How Can Schools Decrease Disruptive Behavior?
Working
to change the above-mentioned characteristics may decrease disruptive
behavior. First, rules and the consequences of breaking them should be
clearly specified and communicated to staff, students, and parents by
such means as newsletters, student assemblies, and handbooks. Meyers and
Pawlas (1989) recommend periodically restating the rules, especially
after students return from summer or winter vacation.
Once
rules have been communicated, fair and consistent enforcement helps
maintain students' respect for the school's discipline system.
Consistency will be greater when fewer individuals are responsible for
enforcement. Providing a hearing process for students to present their
side of the story and establishing an appeal process will also increase
students' and parents' perceptions of fairness.
The
Gottfredsons suggest creating smaller schools or dividing large schools
into several schools-within-schools (cited in Duke). This has been done
in several Portland, Oregon, middle schools that have large numbers of
at-risk students. For example, as Director of Instruction Leigh Wilcox
explained, Lane Middle School has been divided into three minischools,
each with a complete age range of students taught by a team of teachers
(telephone interview, July 10, 1992).
Discipline
policies should distinguish between categories of offenses. Minor
infractions may be treated flexibly, depending on the circumstances,
while nonnegotiable consequences are set for serious offenses. Actual
criminal offenses may be reported to the police as part of a cooperative
anticrime effort (Gaustad 1991).
Lack of Leadership in Teacher
1. Teachers have no respect as they had in the past.
2. Students do not show respect the teachers
3. Teachers get involved in the cesspool of politics and self-interest
4. Teachers loose their ideals and do not pay their intentions for the development of the students
5. Teachers usually excite the students and use them as tools of private tuitions.
6. Miserable economic condition is also one of the main reason for lack of leadership
7. They are incapable of giving the guidance to the students
The Current Education System
1. Current education system is always being criticized
2. Students came to know that education given to them is not good
3. Students have no regard for education
4. Students just consider the education for the sake of their earning
5. In present, primary aim of educational system is to get good position in the annual examination
6. Students use their unfair means for achieving their objectives
Lack of Sustaining Ideal in the Students
1. Society has pitiable condition now a days
2. Social changes are going to be changed
3. Moral values have shaken our society
4. Individual have no security of his life
5. Lack of healthy ideals among the students
Economic Difficulties
1. Our economic condition has its deplorable degree
2. Increased population created many national problems
3. Less resources
Lack of Communication
1. Between staff
2. Between students
3. Between parents
Disruptive behavior of the teacher
1. No interest toward the students
2. No new methodologies
3. No interest in the curriculum
4. No interest in the development of the students’ personalities
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