Discipline Strategies

Many teachers, especially new teachers, struggle with classroom discipline. Information in this section is designed to provide teachers and teachers-in-training with the tools and information to assist in understanding many of the issues faced in the classroom.

The Classroom Discipline section of Teacher Matters provides the following:

* An interactive analysis tool to assist in discovering what discipline approach you tend to favor. This analysis tool is based on Wolfgang and Glickman’s Beliefs on Discipline Inventory (1995).

* Articles that may be helpful in understanding behavioral problems and creating classroom rules.

* 9 Discipline Strategies from leading contemporary theorists designed to provide information on how teachers might manage common day-to-day classroom discipline issues.