Teaching Self-Discipline

A self-monitoring program

Objective: Integrate self-discipline instruction in the general curriculum.

For staff working with all students grades K–12.

Lack of discipline is a common cause of ineffective instruction. Yet rarely is self-discipline taught in order to create an instructional atmosphere, one in which teacher and student are comfortable and productive. Author Dr. Dennis Knapcyzk, Indiana University, looks at classroom discipline as a curricular concern, comparable to teaching reading and math. In this book, he shows you how to present discipline to students by cueing them to performances by socially competent same age peers and incorporates discipline training into the general curriculum.

Teach students to:

• Set goals for their behavior
• Apply themselves to their work
• Direct their own behavior
• Make decisions about their actions
• Moderate their actions in accord with peers

Softbound, 150 pgs., 2004.