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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:25:34 EST
- From: WENDI BEATTY <WJB112@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93022.152534WJB112@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
- Subject: Re: Hello All
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- Since I don't know yet how to quote someone on net news, (this is my first
- attempt at a post) I'll try to explain what I'm quoting.
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- This post concerns using writing as a disciplinary measure.
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- In an article I recently read, Lisa described having two offending students
- write out the steps to a square dance they were learning as an after school
- punishment for in - class misbehaving. That may seem and effective
- punishment, but consider this:
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- In the early grades, writing is often used as a punnishment for everything
- from talking in class and throwing spitballs to neglecting homework and
- skipping class. The students are conditioned to view writing as something
- unpleasant.
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- When we actually want the students to write to learn, many of them still
- don't like it. They may even view it as just another punishment. I think
- this kind of punishment can be a mistake. From a future teacher to all of
- you in the early grades, please don't use writing as a punnishment. It
- turns the students off to what should be an exciting and enriching
- experience.
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- Instead you might try simply boring them to death. When my one elementary
- teacher had to discipline aone of us, she just made us sit at the desk
- during recess with our hands folded and stare at the blackboard. No long
- lectures, no writing fifty times "I will not talk in class."
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- It worked!
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