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Essay on Classroom Management Techniques: Glasser vs. Canter
Significance of the Study
School discipline and classroom management problems continue to be placed at the top of the teacher’s problem list. Number of books and hundreds of journal articles have been written discussing mechanism of discipline in the classroom. Even recognized authorities on student discipline such as William Glasser (1969) and Lee Canter (1984) have proposed plans that were successful in some schools, however failed in others. As with any plan in education, the individual school’s culture and environment must be considered when putting into practice a discipline program.
Canned programs” like those of Glasser and Canter need examination and adjusting through data collection to adjust the plans. The qualitative data collected might be used to help determine the common threads of several discipline practices and their successful execution. During the past decade, both the United States Congress in addition to individual state legislatures have expressed apprehension for student safety, discipline, and school security through numerous hearings and the passage of several bills intended for reducing youth violence. Creating an systematic and disciplined school environment free of violence is crucial for learning to take place. Therefore, many schools and communities across the nation are working to build effective discipline practices. Using the findings of this study, teachers, administrators, parents, and school board members will possibly be better able to estimate their discipline practices and use some of the suggestions from the participants of the study. On the whole, the process of constructing effective discipline practices is a long and grueling task, however it can be broad in its success.
Literature Review
School discipline is not a new observable fact. Many researchers have documented unsuccessful discipline practices back to the beginning of United States schooling during early colonialism (Empey & Stafford, 1991; Greenberg, 1999; Regoli & Hewitt, 1997). In every age, some American school children have been uncontrollable and negative..........
