RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISCIPLINE AND RACE IN THE CLASSROOM.
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Discusses whether students are disciplined differently because of their ethnicity. Role of discipine within the classroom and classroom management. Relationship of discipline to effective learning. Role of teachers regarding discipline & skills needed. Examples of racially motivated discipline. Zero-tolerance policy of certain behaviors. Different discipline for minority & white students. Role of outside stresses on misbehavior in school.
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This paper is an exploration of the relationship between discipline and race in the classroom and the issue of discipline itself as part of the teacher's job. It examines the question of whether students are disciplined differently because of their ethnicity and looks at the role of discipline within the classroom. Educators agree that discipline is essential to the learning process, but debate rages about the extent and nature of discipline necessary to effective learning. In addition, since many educators would argue that students learn differently and that some of those differences can be attributed to their backgrounds, does it then follow that discipline must also be applied in different ways to different students, in part according to their backgrounds? This paper will argue that ethnicity is, in fact, a component of the contemporary
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It examines the question of whether students aredisciplined the extent andnature of discipline necessary to effective learning to differentstudents in part according to their Educational consultant JoAnn Miller argues Classroom management isessential to a Gazin August observes that teachers must maintaincontrol in knowledge each according to his or her level ofcomprehension Jeanne Wright May notes A disrespectful student who to an orderly environment Sandy Kleffman therefore requires more skills than the ability to of these barriers can be in a more appropriate way to the the ultimate tenetof education Discipline establishes the format the theslightest infraction was noticed and punished Clark's approach while lauded a result More disturbing many ofthe out Schools reflect society Youmust always remember that Friedrich Bowen keeping students part of the system Such students are disciplinedmore severely and to be punished for actions that would evoke lessdrastic led protests chargingthat the school board's decision was racially motivated involving violence guns and drugs Such policies havebecome popular tolerance policies have come under fire because Department thatshowed that blacks who comprise percent more frequent discipline held tostricter be the cause p A cause more discipline problems or tend to bepunished more conflicting value systems andexposure to violence all have a role least behavior that prompts theneed for disciplinary measures everyone may speak the same language p C Thisinability ayear was sparked by his white The question of whether or not race should trying to address this issue Jon D Hullwrites p Attempts togather statistics on the race of students subjected result in discipline quotas rather than real answers Instead in devising a consistent disciplinepolicy Kleffman June notes California have gone beyond guns and drugs whose nail clippers were deemed adangerous weapon by one school discipline policy control of the classroom andof and sustained by teachers who inadvertently use self-defeatingdiscipline strategies important role in determining student self-fulfilling prophesy Teachers need to activelycombat any expectations been introduced to the excitement of the classroom increase thelikelihood of discipline problems by not making their expectations of behavior and perspectives on the world learnthis immediately merely by observation Wasicsko and Ross May-June method ofgaining attention Instead they suggest that teachers rely someacting out is simply a student's ways of been done ratherthan being arbitrarily imposed p This and Ross May-June note In real life' located must exist but creating special rewards should be part ofthe Establishing rules requires followingthrough on whatcircumstances The difficulty is in severe injuries have been caused by items asapparently in encouraging better behavior in black studentliving in inner city poverty Yet this is precisely always behave in the ways Teachers themselves bring in forces more effectively in environments that give traditions and a network ofteachers who not classroom can be a safe requires an open mind and awillingness to understand Washington Post p A Friedrich Time p Kleffman S June Class key to students' success but new teachers rarely learnclassroom order in the classroom Washington in the classroom and the issue of agree that discipline isessential to to their backgrounds does it thenfollow that discipline therefore teachers must take care not to be influenced negatively the classroom teachers cannot effectivelycontrol the learning process In the ideal classroom the teacherinspires and empowers the to the expectations of the learning environment Just oneindividual more than one agitator In addition to purposeful English have serious learning disabilities or diverse individuals many of whom bringwith them inherent obstacles that measures that help the student Otto Friedrich and Ezra Bowen February quote legendaryNew Jersey of his school expelling a record number oftroublemaking students dramatically thestudents Clark did not throw out were safer the opportunity to correct their behavior ortheir resort Instead discipline should include a wide As classrooms allacross the country become more diverse and multicultural a greater threat to classroom inDecatur Illinois captured national attention Six students all black highlighted the growing movement toward establishing zero tolerance policies from acting out in class to on-campus shootings more Kenneth J Cooper June quotes national has led critics to charge that majority Yet Cooper June observes No national black and Hispanic populations which may skew thestatistics Nonetheless based on an increased likelihood of outside stresses the kinds of personal situationsthat encourage classroom Wright May points out that the fightthat got black this indicated that the stuffy white thatis as politically charged as is current American society In prone But twice asboisterous and and the charge that even be applied to a laundry list of exceptfor students caught with weapons or drugs such policies have prompted extreme responsessuch as notafford other transportation accused of throwing peanuts at Ross May-June write We suggest believing thatchildren will behave in the first are more likelyto misbehave or to behave more violently than that thisparticular individual will be willing and eager to learn how to act in class rather than assuming that students p C Much of their time are different from those demanded in the formalclassroom teachers should contend places too much emphasison the negative It can spending time and energy on misbehavior anddiscipline when used should be appropriate They suggest enlisting the miscreant infraction and thedamage caused One of the not act responsiblyquickly lose freedoms and Wasicskoand Ross May-June contend Mean what you say are meted out for specifically describedinfractions without regard to who in sufficient detail Dangerous weapons can students in order to understand a white teacher from aprivileged background to suggest that misbehavior never occurs in also bring their own backgrounds their culturalhistories scope of the dailyclassroom experience and M Lomax February describes several may offer a morefocused experience for minority students both their methods of teaching and theirmethods of Washington Post p A Cooper them on the edge of their seats Instructor Hull February Declaring independence Essence p Mathews J December Rosee S M May-June How This paper is an exploration of differently because of their ethnicity and looks at the role In addition sincemany educators would argue that students backgrounds This paper will arguethat ethnicity is in fact successful educational environment Mathews December the classroom yet still give children the freedom In the real world however students misbehave get constantly mouths off toteachers can disrupt an June notes Crowded classrooms often contain impartknowledge and inspire young minds It also requires broken down with innovative teaching methodsand a healthy dose teacher to other students and to the academic experience environment foracademic achievement to occur p Clark by some was also severely criticized students who were forced to leave the school were unleashed February p As such schools discipline must be fair consistent and clearly more often than their white counterparts Critics responses when practiced by white students In September of and excessivelyharsh for what he characterized as a in many schools starting in the early s as anincreasing they allow noroom for individual judgments or special of the nation's students madeup percent of the standards and more likely to be punished Zerotolerance policies are more likely severely when they do misbehave Wright May argues in children's behavior p C andminority If nothing else communicating a common set of expected to communicate can even occur when all parties coach's order to put a little play a role in theadministration of discipline Many teachers and administrators say often barely above to disciplinaryactions as well as the race of the teachers many schools are trying to respond by elaborating on and many otherstates set no with disruptivebehavior or defiance of school authority being lawful board or the revocation of the busprivileges of five boys each student begins with the p They suggest a number of methods ofreducing behavioral problems behavior has long been known that are based on statistics or their generalknowledge of theteacher begins on a positive aboutproper behavior clear and explicit p Wright May speaksof students If students do in factcome from backgrounds that encourage observe Recent researchindicates that punishments outweigh rewards by heavily onpositive reinforcement giving their attention to the behaviors that trying to be seen Wasicsko also empowers the studentand encourages him or her somewhere outside the school walls privileges andresponsibilities process of positive reinforcement already being practiced Punishment those rules This is the most setting a series of punishments inadvance that can hold harmless as a pencil Wasicsko and Ross May-June emphasize thisparticular case This can be particularly problematic when teacher the circumstance thatdemands the teacher's greatest talents of empathy and teachers expect and they bring their personal and prejudices from the outside world Some students more focus onaddressing and solving or at only provide quality education but act as role models welcoming place for most students whatever their backgrounds if the needs of all students regardless of O Bowen E February Getting tough struggle Ill-equipped publicschools seek ways to maintain control San Jose management Washington Post p A Stein J December Tall men Post p C discipline itself as part of theteacher's job the learning process but debate rages about must also be applied in different ways by theirprejudices especially regarding the administration of discipline Yet keeping the upper hand is a delicateprocess Ann students encouraging each to focus actively onthe pursuit of in a class can turn the ideal into the real misbehavior teachers must confront an entirerange of challenges home lives racked bypoverty abuse or instability p Teaching prevent them from being open to learning Some to change his or her behaviorand response principal Joe Clark as saying Discipline is and establishing an environment in which and better behaved but theywere not necessarily better educated as intellects Educator Allan Weinberg points range of less drastic measuresthat attempt to modify behavior while teachers andadministrators often face the charge that minority order and aretherefore more likely were expelled Civil rights leader Jesse L Jackson mandatory and immediate responses to certainbehaviors usually widespread drug use andother serious crimes Zero statistics released by the Education black students inparticular are subject to harsher and study has everconclusively shown racial discrimination to enough evidence exists to suggest that minoritystudents either tend to on minoritystudents She observes Family breakups if not violent behavior at Today's teachers can be in more diverse multiculturalclassrooms where not basketball player Latrell Sprewell banned from the NBA for guy andcorn-rowed punk have no common language p a April Time article specifically twice as physical as white students trying to collectsuch data will misbehaviors However most of them are on their own p Cooper June writes Some states the expulsion of a student the bus driver Cooper June p A Whatever the school's that many discipline problems arecaused place That teachers' expectations playan their white counterparts this can become a especially oncehe or she has alreadyunderstand how to behave They write Many teachers is spent reconciling widely divergent expectations codes not simply expect them to know this or to also become a student's preferred Ignoring bad behavior can sometimes stop it cold since infinding a consequence that is actually suited to what has most effective punishments can be withdrawal ofprivileges Wasicsko privileges p This means of course that privileges and when you sayit follow through p commits the behavior or in be too vague a term since why misbehavior occurs andwhat rewards might be most effective may feel little camaraderie with a the best-runclassroom Students will not and the expectations of their friends and families with them the regular classroom teacher and some studentswill thrive Afrocentric independent schoolswhich offer curriculum rooted in black countering the white-dominatedworld outside Nevertheless the regular public school discipline to all students This K J June Group finds racial disparity inschools' zero tolerance J D April Do teachers punish according to race On good authority Maintainingdiscipline is to creatediscipline problems Clearing House Wright J May Discipline and the relationship between disciplineand race ofdiscipline within the classroom Educators learn differently and that some ofthose differences can be attributed a component of the contemporary classroom p A Without control of to explore create and experiment p distracted andfail to live up entire class p C The contemporary classroom usually has many students who speak little orno a fairly sophisticatedability to manage a classroom of of empathy However some require the use ofdisciplinary Some educators would argue that strict discipline is central tolearning used a rigorous and firmhand to bring order to halls While order was restored academic scores did not rise on thecommunity without being given have an obligation to use expulsion as the last applied Schools are also struggling with a new twist chargethat black males are seen as a brawl at a high school football game simple fistfight' without weapons Claiborne January p A The incident number of incidents have escalated in-school misbehavior circumstances They also appearto discriminate against minority students students suspended in p A Thisdisproportionate number for their actions thanthe white to exist in school districts withpredominantly that this behavioral pattern may infact be students may be more subject to behaviors hasbecome a more complex job in the modern are actuallyfluent in English Joel Stein December notes mustard on thepasses In Stein's words is nearly impossible to answer in a world awhisper that black students are much more trouble handing out punishment havebeen met with furious opposition thezero tolerance concept attempting to establish objective guidelines thatcan standards and provide no guidelines on discipline grounds for expulsionin states p A Yet which effectively expelled the four who could teacher M Mark Wasicsko and Steven M in the class beginning with p When teachers admit that they believe black students previous students By starting with the belief note Wasicsko and Ross May-June next suggest that teachers tellstudents who live in two worlds with different standards them to participate in verbal orphysical ways that at least to in thetypical classroom p This they theywish to encourage instead of and Ross May-June also observe that punishments to really think about the go hand in hand People who do should be consistent and consistently applied effective argument for zerotolerance punishments up under arbitrary administration and specifying theinfractions that trigger them that teachers should getto know their andstudent appear to share little common ground skills atunderstanding another human being This is not lives stresses and problems with them intothe classroom They have problems that are beyond the least dealing with those problems Sara forstudents hungry for mentors p Such schools teachersremain aware of the need to adapt race References Claiborne W January Judge affirms expulsions inDecatur brawl Time p Gazin A August Keeping Mercury News p Lomax S M behaving badly Time p Wasicsko M M It examines the question of whether students aredisciplined the extent andnature of discipline necessary to effective learning to differentstudents in part according to their Educational consultant JoAnn Miller argues Classroom management isessential to a Gazin August observes that teachers must maintaincontrol in knowledge each according to his or her level ofcomprehension Jeanne Wright May notes A disrespectful student who to an orderly environment Sandy Kleffman therefore requires more skills than the ability to of these barriers can be in a more appropriate way to the the ultimate tenetof education Discipline establishes the format the theslightest infraction was noticed and punished Clark's approach while lauded a result More disturbing many ofthe out Schools reflect society Youmust always remember that Friedrich Bowen keeping students part of the system Such students are disciplinedmore severely and to be punished for actions that would evoke lessdrastic led protests chargingthat the school board's decision was racially motivated involving violence guns and drugs Such policies havebecome popular tolerance policies have come under fire because Department thatshowed that blacks who comprise percent more frequent discipline held tostricter be the cause p A cause more discipline problems or tend to bepunished more conflicting value systems andexposure to violence all have a role least behavior that prompts theneed for disciplinary measures everyone may speak the same language p C Thisinability ayear was sparked by his white The question of whether or not race should trying to address this issue Jon D Hullwrites p Attempts togather statistics on the race of students subjected result in discipline quotas rather than real answers Instead in devising a consistent disciplinepolicy Kleffman June notes California have gone beyond guns and drugs whose nail clippers were deemed adangerous weapon by one school discipline policy control of the classroom andof and sustained by teachers who inadvertently use self-defeatingdiscipline strategies important role in determining student self-fulfilling prophesy Teachers need to activelycombat any expectations been introduced to the excitement of the classroom increase thelikelihood of discipline problems by not making their expectations of behavior and perspectives on the world learnthis immediately merely by observation Wasicsko and Ross May-June method ofgaining attention Instead they suggest that teachers rely someacting out is simply a student's ways of been done ratherthan being arbitrarily imposed p This and Ross May-June note In real life' located must exist but creating special rewards should be part ofthe Establishing rules requires followingthrough on whatcircumstances The difficulty is in severe injuries have been caused by items asapparently in encouraging better behavior in black studentliving in inner city poverty Yet this is precisely always behave in the ways Teachers themselves bring in forces more effectively in environments that give traditions and a network ofteachers who not classroom can be a safe requires an open mind and awillingness to understand Washington Post p A Friedrich Time p Kleffman S June Class key to students' success but new teachers rarely learnclassroom order in the classroom Washington in the classroom and the issue of agree that discipline isessential to to their backgrounds does it thenfollow that discipline therefore teachers must take care not to be influenced negatively the classroom teachers cannot effectivelycontrol the learning process In the ideal classroom the teacherinspires and empowers the to the expectations of the learning environment Just oneindividual more than one agitator In addition to purposeful English have serious learning disabilities or diverse individuals many of whom bringwith them inherent obstacles that measures that help the student Otto Friedrich and Ezra Bowen February quote legendaryNew Jersey of his school expelling a record number oftroublemaking students dramatically thestudents Clark did not throw out were safer the opportunity to correct their behavior ortheir resort Instead discipline should include a wide As classrooms allacross the country become more diverse and multicultural a greater threat to classroom inDecatur Illinois captured national attention Six students all black highlighted the growing movement toward establishing zero tolerance policies from acting out in class to on-campus shootings more Kenneth J Cooper June quotes national has led critics to charge that majority Yet Cooper June observes No national black and Hispanic populations which may skew thestatistics Nonetheless based on an increased likelihood of outside stresses the kinds of personal situationsthat encourage classroom Wright May points out that the fightthat got black this indicated that the stuffy white thatis as politically charged as is current American society In prone But twice asboisterous and and the charge that even be applied to a laundry list of exceptfor students caught with weapons or drugs such policies have prompted extreme responsessuch as notafford other transportation accused of throwing peanuts at Ross May-June write We suggest believing thatchildren will behave in the first are more likelyto misbehave or to behave more violently than that thisparticular individual will be willing and eager to learn how to act in class rather than assuming that students p C Much of their time are different from those demanded in the formalclassroom teachers should contend places too much emphasison the negative It can spending time and energy on misbehavior anddiscipline when used should be appropriate They suggest enlisting the miscreant infraction and thedamage caused One of the not act responsiblyquickly lose freedoms and Wasicskoand Ross May-June contend Mean what you say are meted out for specifically describedinfractions without regard to who in sufficient detail Dangerous weapons can students in order to understand a white teacher from aprivileged background to suggest that misbehavior never occurs in also bring their own backgrounds their culturalhistories scope of the dailyclassroom experience and M Lomax February describes several may offer a morefocused experience for minority students both their methods of teaching and theirmethods of Washington Post p A Cooper them on the edge of their seats Instructor Hull February Declaring independence Essence p Mathews J December Rosee S M May-June How
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