The+Ginott+Model

· **Practicing Congruent Communication ** o Delivering Sane Messages o Expressing Anger Appropriately o Avoid Using Labels, Criticism, and Sarcasm o Acknowledge Students Feelings · **Fostering Independence in Students ** o Teachers should show interest in student' success and communicate acceptance to them. They need to help students achieve greater independence. Dependency breeds hostility. Improving student-teacher relationships does not involve doing more for students but rather helping them to achieve greater independence. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Avoiding the Perils of Praise **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Praise has generally been accepted as a way of helping students improve their behavior. Ginott, however, believes that praise can either be destructive or productive depending on how it is used. Evaluative praise, he says, is destructive. Statements such as "Good Boy", "Great Job", and "Good Work", invite dependency, evoke defensiveness, and create anxiety. This type of praise fails to promote self-reliance, self-direction, and self-control. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To praise appropriately, teachers need to tell students what they have accomplished and let them draw their own conclusions about its value. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Disciplining Students **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">According to Ginott, the most critical aspect of discipline is finding effective alternatives to punishment. Punishment is likely to enrage students and make them uneducable. Good discipline requires teachers to act with kindness and patience over a period of time. Good discipline, says Ginott, "is a series of little victories in which a teacher, through small decencies, reaches a child's heart." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Preventing Discipline Problems **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ginott does not propose an explicit plan for preventing discipline problems. Instead, he emphasizes the need for teachers to be loving, warm, and patient. This approach, he says, will prevent many discipline problems.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Ginott Model: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Key Elements **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Addressing the Situation with Sane Messages **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Discipline is little-by-little, step-by-step. The teacher's self-discipline is the key, and the model the behavior you want in students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Use //sane messages// when correcting misbehavior. Address what the student is doing, don't attack the student's character [personal traits]. //Labeling disables//.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Use communication that is //congruent// with student's own feelings about the situation and themselves.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Invite cooperation rather than demanding it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Teachers should express their feelings--anger--but in sane ways. "What you are doing makes me very angry. I need you to ...."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sarcasm is hazardous.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Praise can be dangerous; praise the act, not the student and in a situation that will not turn peers against the pupil.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Apologies are meaningless unless it is clear that the person intends to improve.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Teachers are at their best when they help pupils develop their //self-esteem and to trust their own experience//.