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Aleah Hearn Chapter 10 Jerome Freiberg About Jerome: Professor of Education at the University of Houston, Author. Awards: University’s Teaching Excellence Award College of Education Award for Teaching Excellence College of Education Senior Research Excellence Award Books: Revised //Freedom to Learn by: Carl Rogers// Co wrote //Universal Teaching Strategies// Beyond Behaviorism: Changing the Classroom Management Paradigm

Overview of Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline Began as an effort to improve discipline in inner city and diverse schools. Contains classroom constitutions, 1 minute managers and tourists. There are five basic themes to improve behavior- school climate, academic achievement, classroom management, practical classroom and school applications and instructional and school effectiveness. Concepts An entire school must develop a continuity of actions and expectations for staff, teachers, and students and must be committed to giving students consistent messages about self-discipline Teachers should provide a sense of continuity of actions and expectations that help students learn to become responsible for their actions and to develop self-discipline. Teachers should strive for person-centered classrooms ( emphasizing caring, guidance, and cooperation) rather than teacher-centered classrooms. Teachers should turn students from tourists to citizens. Teachers should support five themes: prevention, caring, cooperation, organizations, and community. Pros of CMCD Everyone is on the same page. Every class is ran the same and students know what to expect from every teacher and staff member. ( They can not say “I did not know” Encourages students to be more responsible and take responsibility for their own actions. With the teachers expecting the children to be responsible, it gives them faith and will power to do so. Person- centered classrooms promote everyone to work together like a community and a team. Everyone is equal and has a special part in the classroom. Students are treated like citizens and not tourists. Time is spent on them and they have a feeling of belonging. Focuses more on prevention of discipline rather than how to discipline. More Positive! Cons Of CMCD Very difficult to have all staff members follow the same procedure and act together as a whole. Every adult has a different approach and opinion on how discipline should go, especially in their own classroom. You would have to have many meetings and group staff trainings to ensure uniformity. Time is a factor. Freiberg believes that you must take lots of time to “prevent” misbehaviors rather than having to intervene later. This could take away from instruction. The teachers role is not teacher-centered anymore. This makes the teacher have to adopt several other different roles making it hard to stay consistent. If not followed through chaos and confusion could result.