The Ginott Model

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The Ginott Model
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Haim Ginott(1922-1973) A Glimpse of His
Life.

• Began his career as a school teacher in Israel in
  1947 before immigrating to the United States.
  Then he earned a doctoral degree in clinical
  psychology, from Columbia university, in 1952.
• During his work at the guidance clinic, in
  Jacksonville Florida, he refined his unique
  combination of compassion and boundary setting.

• His work had a significant impact on the way
  adults relate to children.
• His goal was to help parents and teachers
  socialize children while simultaneously
  cultivating their emotional well being.
• He taught adults how to relate to children in a
  caring and understanding way without diminishing
  their authority.

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Key elements of the Ginott Model

• Congruent Communication
• Fostering Independence and Self Respect
• Avoiding the Perils of Praise

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Congruent Communication

• Congruent communication is a way of communicating
  with students that increases self-esteem and
  decreases conflict. It involves talking with and
  responding to students in an empathic manner. It
  also involves appropriate expression of anger,
  and the use of sane messages that are logical
  and rational.

• Talk to the situation, not to the personality
  and character is the cardinal rule of
  communication.
• (Quote from teacher and child p. 84)
• When angry, an enlightened teacher remains real.
  He describes what he sees, what he feels, and
  what he expects. (P.84)
• A teacher cannot be artificial and effective.
  Nothing defeats him more than phoniness. No one
  can pretend respect and care without being
  detected. Skill divorced from genuineness is
  soon unmasked. (P.84)

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Congruent Incongruent

• A child spills paint Oh. I see the paint
  spilled. We need water and a rag.
• A child forgot to return his book to the library
  Your book needs to be returned to the library.
  Its overdue
• A class is getting ready to go to gym and two
  girls are playing catch with their sneakers It
  makes me angry to see that. Sneakers are not for
  throwing. They are for wearing to the gym.

• A child spills paint You are so clumsy. Why
  are you so careless?
• A child forgot to return their book to the
  library You are so irresponsible! You always
  procrastinate and forget. Why didnt you return
  the book to the library?
• Teacher goes with his/her first impulse to yell
  and punish.

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Fostering Independence and Self Respect

• Ginott believed that dependency breeds hostility.
  Therefore, teachers should encourage autonomy.
• Facilitating autonomy-children need to make
  choices about their behavior. Teachers can meet
  this need by giving students small choices, such
  as the number of problems they are given for
  homework.
• Guiding emotion- use reflective listening. This
  will help children clarify their own emotions.

• Children are dependent on their teachers, and
  dependency breeds hostility. To reduce hostility
  a teacher deliberately provides children with
  opportunities to experience independence. The
  more autonomy, the less enmity The more
  self-dependence, the less resentment of
  others.(Quote from teacher and child p. 91)

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Avoiding the Perils of Praise

• Evaluative praise places a judgment on character
  traits. Evaluative praise can be destructive.
  (Apple example)
• Appropriate praise tells students what they have
  accomplished while letting them draw their own
  conclusions about its value.

• Praise, like a drug, may make a child feel
  good-for the moment. However, it creates
  dependence. Others become his source of
  approval. He relies on them to quench his
  craving and establish his value. They must tell
  him his daily worth.(Quote from teacher and child
  p. 126)

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Examples of Appropriate Praise

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So, Where Is the Discipline?

• The essence of discipline is finding effective
  alternatives to punishment. To punish the child
  is to enrage him and make him uneducable."
  (Teacher and Child p. 147,148)
• In discipline whatever generates hate must be
  avoided. Whatever creates self-esteem is to be
  fostered. (Teacher and Child p.148)
• The emphasis is on prevention.
• Ginott believed that discipline problems could be
  prevented through loving, warm, and patient
  action on the part of the teacher, and that when
  a problem occurs the emphasis should be on the
  problem, rather than the individual. (Examples
  from book)

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Strengths

• The Ginott model is very effective in helping
  teachers establish positive communication with
  their students.
• The focus is on empowering students to develop
  their own sense of responsibility and
  independence, and the model creates a venue for
  teachers to facilitate students progress in this
  area.
• Can be incorporated into the use of any
  discipline model, because the concepts of the
  Ginott model complement both the more structured
  discipline models and the less structured
  discipline models.

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Weaknesses

• The Ginott model does not give a specific method
  for dealing with more serious ongoing discipline
  problems. Many people prefer to have a more
  structured procedure for dealing with serious
  misbehavior.
• Insufficient support for teachers who are used to
  a more traditional role in dealing with students.

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Case Study

• Rhoda, a 12 year old migrant, who has a language
  deficiency, is coming to school with bad body
  odor. The students and parents are complaining,
  and the teacher has chosen to ignore the
  situation. He had just received a note from the
  principal stating that he must address the rotten
  smell emanating from his room.

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Identify the problem

• The problem is we have a student with a serious
  hygiene problem that is causing disruption in the
  classroom.

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Objective

• Rhoda will have a self-awareness that there is a
  problem with her personal hygiene.

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Solutions

• The teacher will indirectly incorporate
  components of daily hygiene into a math lesson on
  volume or money. For example teaching students
  how to measure volume and giving the assignment
  to measure the volume of water that builds up
  when they are taking their DAILY shower.
• Parent-Teacher-Interpreter Conference (Ginotts
  Way)

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Implementation

• Conduct math lesson on volume or money, including
  personal hygiene terminology and correlate it to
  math problems. Provide worksheets to the
  students, along with daily hygiene items that
  will be related to the math lesson. Allow the
  students to keep the items for use at home.
• Conduct a parent/teacher/interpreter conference
  using Ginotts method of parent education
• Recitation
• Sensitization
• Learning of Concepts
• Teaching and practice of better skills
• Will meet in 2 weeks to review progress

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Evaluate

• After the lessons were taught there was a
  noticeable difference in Rhodas personal hygiene
  for two weeks, and the students complained less.
  After two weeks the odor returned, and solution
  two had to be implemented.
• With the help of the interpreter the parents
  became aware of the importance of the issue of
  personal hygiene and the problem was resolved.

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References

• REFERENCES
• Ginott, H. G. Teacher and Child New York Collier
  Books Macmillan Publishing Company, 1993
• Handouts, for this assignment, from Ms. Cavin
• http//faculty.leeu.edu/bestes/resources/modelsof
  discipline.html
• http//www.arfamilies.org/family_life/Educators/gi
  nott_method.htm
• http//www.betweenparentandchild.com/index.php?sc
  ontenpHaim
• http//en.thinkexist.com/quotes/dr._haim_ginott/
• http//eqi.org/ginott.htm
• www.inspiringthots.net/movie/trs-power.php