William Glasser

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William GlassersNoncoercive Discipline

• Presented By
• Bethany Duke, Genny Fitzgerald
• Anna Gilbert, Candace Pianka
• and William Tignor

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Class Meetings

• Discussion of class concerns and problems
• Sit in a circle

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Students Needs

• All human beings share common needs for
• Survival
• Belonging
• Power
• Fun
• Freedom
• Education that does not prioritize these needs is
  bound to fail.
• Cooperative learning helps students meet these
  basic needs.

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Quality School and Curriculum

• Boring lessons create an environment where
  students do not pay attention
• If lessons are interesting then students will not
  have to be forced to pay attention
• Students should learn only what is useful and
  enjoyable
• There is too much memorizing of irrelevant facts

• Students decide what they want to go in depth in
• Topics that interest them they will learn more
  successfully

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6 Characteristics of a Quality School

• Relationships are based on trust
• Competition for grades are eliminated and
  replaced with a Total Learning Competency
• All students do some work that is beyond
  competence and receives A-A
• Students and staff are taught Choice Theory and
  parent involvement is encouraged
• State proficiency and college entrance exams are
  the focus
• Staff, students, parents and administrators view
  the school as a joyful place

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Problems with Quality Teaching, Schools, and
Curriculum

• There is no way to make the curriculum statewide
• Students interests vary and topics will be at a
  stand-off
• Not everyone is looking to go to college
• The grading system is more of a pass/fail based
  on effort

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Boss Teachers vs. Lead Teachers

• Move away from boss teachers towards lead
  teachers
• Motivation cannot be provided for students
• Students want to learn with lead teachers, but
  are unproductive with boss teachers

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Boss Teachers

• Set the tasks and standards for student learning
• Talk rather than demonstrate and rarely ask for
  student input
• Grade the work without students in the evaluation
  
• Use coercion when students resist

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Lead Teachers

• Focuses on students needs and interests
• Two main time consumers organizing interesting
  activities and providing assistance to students
• Ask students what subjects they would like to
  explore
• Ask for input on the subjects they are learning
• Demonstrate ways in which the work can be done,
  using models that reflect quality
• Make sure students know that they are receiving
  the best tools and means to create and get done
  the best work
• Non-coercive and non-adversarial

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Rules and Consequences

• Have the students determine class rules that they
  think will help them get their work done and
  truly help them learn.
• Once the students see the importance of courtesy,
  no other rules may be necessary.
• Students should also determine the consequence
  for when a rule is broken.  

• The best way to solve a problem is by looking for
  ways to remedy whatever is causing the rule to be
  broken.
• Once the rules and consequences have been
  determined, they should be written down and all
  students should sign them as they promise to
  abide by them.

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Reality Therapy

• Method of counseling which teaches people how to
  direct their own lives, make more effective
  choices
• We can choose behaviors that will help us better
  the future

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Reality Therapy in the Classroom

• Creating a trusting environment
• Using techniques which help a person discover
  what they really want, reflect on what they are
  doing now, and create a new plan for fulfilling
  that want more effectively in the future

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Ten Axioms of Choice Theory
1. The only person whose behavior we can control
is our own. 2. All we can give another person is
information. 3. All long- lasting psychological
problems are relationship problems. 4. The
problem relationship is always part of our
present life. 5. What happened in the past has
everything to do with what we are today, but we
can only satisfy our basic needs right now and
plan to continue satisfying them in the
future. 6. We can only satisfy our needs by
satisfying the pictures in our Quality World. 7.
All we do is behave. 8. All behavior is Total
Behavior and is made up of four components
acting, thinking, feeling and physiology. 9. All
Total Behavior is chosen, but we only have direct
control over the acting and thinking components.
We can only control our feeling and physiology
indirectly through how we choose to act and
think. 10. All Total Behavior is designated by
verbs and named by the part that is most
recognizable.
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Bibliography

• Charles, C.M.  (2002).  Building classroom
  discipline.  (7th ed.).  Boston Allyn and
  Bacon.  
• Websites
• http//www.wglasser.com/  The William Glasser
  Institute.
• http//wfurr.com/ct/   Choice Theory Psychology
• http//www.k12albemarle.org/MurrayHS/MHS_gen/gqs.h
  tm  A Glasser Quality School
• http//acrtqss.home.texas.net/Quality_School.html 
  Quality School
• http//indigo.ie/irti/whatis.htm  Reality
  Therapy  
• Books by William Glasser
• Reality Therapy A New Approach to Psychiatry
  (1965)
• Schools without Failure (1969)
• Control Theory in the Classroom (1986)
• The Quality School Managing Students with
  Coercion (1998)
• Choice Theory in the Classroom (1998)
• The Quality School Teacher (1998)