Punishment and Punishment and encouragementencouragementPunishment and Punishment and encouragementencouragement

J.PanfilovaJ.Panfilova

School discipline• Rules• Punishments• Behavioral strategies

(encouragement)

• Its aim: to control the students` actions and behavior

The rules:Define the expected standards of • Clothing• Timekeeping• Social conduct• Work ethic And if the rules are broken?

The list of traditional misbehavior at school– Not doing homework – Playing truant (not coming to school/not

telling parents) – Chewing gum or eating sweets in class– Running in the corridors– Not listening/paying attention in lessons– Leaving the classroom without permission– Swearing (using bad language)– Smoking in the school building (in the

toilets?)– Swearing at a teacher or insulting a teacher

– Cheating in exams (copying from secret notes or another pupil)

– Shouting and making noise during lessons– Writing on walls, desks and other school

property– Stealing from other pupils pockets or bags– Calling a teacher or another pupil bad

names (bullying)– Carrying a dangerous weapon (gun, knife,

penknife)– Hitting other pupils or teachers– Wearing unsuitable clothes for school– Kissing boys/girls during the lesson or in the

corridor

Punishment is the means of maintaining discipline in schools

• Corporal punishment• Detention• Suspension• Expulsion

Corporal punishment• The reason: while a child was at

school, a teacher was expected to act as a substitute parent.

• The means: cane, paddle, strap or yardstick

A picture showing the marks left on a student's hand after a

caning

• A rattan cane

paddle

Yardstick

Punishment with a strap

Bend over!

A humorous take on how to bend over for the cane,

from Terry Deary, "Cruel Crime And Painful Punishment",

illustrated by Mike Phillips, in the "Horrible Histories" series,

Scholastic Children's Books, London, 2002

Traditions• “Every Briton you can think of,

from Chaucer to Churchill, from Shakespeare to Shilton, was biten as a child. If you are under thirty, then you are the exception”.

Stephen Fry ‘Moab is my Washpot’

• The Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment (STOPP) was set up in the U.K. in 1968 to campaign for the abolition of corporal punishment in UK schools

The end of tradition• In state-run schools, and also in private

schools where at least part of the funding came from government, corporal punishment was outlawed by Parliament with effect from 1987.

• In other private schools it was banned in 1999 (England and Wales), 2000 (Scotland) and 2003 (Northern Ireland).

Pro and contro• A 2008 poll of 6,162 UK teachers

by the Times Educational Supplement found that one in five teachers would still back the use of caning in extreme cases.

• ("A 'fifth of teachers back caning'". BBC News Online. 3 October 2008).

• A 2005 survey of nearly 1,700 parents by the ParentMail website found 20,8% would welcome the restoration of corporal punishment in schools, with 44,4% saying they would like it to be an option.

(The Guardian, 9 January 2007)

Pro and contro

Pro and contro• “When I think about being caned for

repeatedly talking after lights out, or for Mobbing About In the Malt Queue, and other such mad prep-schooly infraction, I feel less passion and distress than I do when I think about the times I was put into detention for crimes of which I was innocent” (Stephen Fry)

Controversy

• As recently as 2012 the co-founder and chairman of the governors said that the most high-profile of the present government`s brand-new so-called “Free schools” would happily restore CP if it were allowed.

Detention• Is one of the most common

punishments in schools in the USA, the UK, Singapore, Canada, Australia and South Africa

• It requires the pupil to go to a certain area of the school during a specified time on a school day or to attend school on a non-school day

Students can do work, stand against the wall or just sit at the desk in a convenient

and quiet manner

Detention Slip is a convenient 2-part individual slip which provides a useful

duplicate copy. One copy can travel with the student while the other stays with the

issuing teacher or office.

2011

2010

School gyrls.’Detention’

• So tell me what I got to doTo get this boy's attention

• That I forgot to mentionWhere'd you meet him?I met him in detentionI met him, I met him, I met himI met him in detention

Suspension or temporary exclusion

• Is mandatory leave assignes to a student who is forbidden to attend regular lessons

• This punishment can last from one day to several weeks

• Some pupils often have to complete work while being suspended

Types of suspension• In-school Suspension (ISS) (the

student sits in a special room at school all day)

• Out-of-School Suspension (OSS) (the student is not allowed at school)

• Reverse Suspension (the student required to be at school during the holiday)

Expulsion• Is the removal of a student

permanently from the school• This is the ultimate last resort• Some education authorities have a

nominated school in which all excluded students are collected

Positive discipline• Positive discipline promotes the

encouragement of students rather than praise to recognize their accomplishments

• In contrast with punishment encouragement is not confirmed by any legally binding document. It is individual for every school

Different strategies

• A designated place on a blackboard or notice board can post the names of students in recognition of their accomplishments in areas such as being the most helpful, most disciplined, having higher marks or success in extracurricular activities.

• Students can be encouraged to be self-disciplined by being recognized with certificates or awards, or being elected as "student of the month".

• Students are given stamps in their planner if they do well in a lesson. When they receive enough stamps from the same subject (usually 3 or 5) the student has a credit. When 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 credits have been awarded to a particular student, that student receives a certificate. If a student meets certain behavioural criteria, they are rewarded with a trip at the end of term

Conclusion The fact that the system of

punishment is much more developed and legally confirmed than the system of encouragement indicates deep discipline problems in British schools

Resources• ‘Positive discipline’

http://blog.positivediscipline.com/2009/09/encouragement-what-does-it-mean-and-how.html

• ‘School discipline’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_discipline• ‘School corporal punishment’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment• http://education.guardian.co.uk/ Numerous recent reports and articles

on school violence and exclusions in a special section.http://www.childrens-express.org Has interesting articles by UK pupils on detention and disciplinehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/default.stm A search on 'truancy' gives recent news reports and an opinion poll of young people on how to stop truancy/bunking off.