MIDTERM

** Midterm **
 * // Building Classroom Discipline //**


 * Directions: **
 * ** Each question is a short answer essay (several 2-3 paragraphs should suffice for each –including components). **
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 * ** Exam is due by Saturday Sunday night ( midnight). **

= Name = __ This item pertains to __**//__ Chapter 1. __//**

1. Regarding classroom misbehavior: define and give an example of (a) behavior, (b) misbehavior, and (c) discipline.

__ These items pertain to __**//__ Chapter 2 __//**__. __

2. Explain what is meant by the concept of “hidden rules” as related to the education of students from various economic and cultural groups. (Give examples of such rules that operate in three different groups, and indicate how well those hidden rules correspond with those that characterize most schools.)

3. Select one of the groups described in this chapter and tell what accommodations you, as a teacher, would make to help students profit most from their educational experience.

__ This item pertains to __**//__ Chapter 1. __//** 4. Explain the following: a) The meaning of the term Neurological Based Behavior. b) What causes NBB, and how does it differ from “normal” behavior, if at all. c) Why NBB is a concern in education and how are teachers advised to deal with it.

__ These items pertain to __**//__ Chapter 4 __//**__. __ 5. Given the number of excellent, workable discipline tactics described in Chapter 4, a) Explain why the overall discipline approaches are seldom, if ever, used today in their entirety.  b) Identify five specific discipline tactics you believe would be especially effective and explain how and why you would use them.

6. Take Haim Ginott’s Discipline through Congruent Communication:
 * 1) Identify its strengths and weakness in working with students.
 * 2) Suggest how the weaknesses you identify might be remedied.

7__. This questions relates to Chapter 5__

According to Morrish, the blame for the ever-growing problem of discipline in schools rests at least in part on popular discipline theories, which he believes have gone to excess in allowing students to  make choices concerning how they will conduct themselves in school. What are your thoughts about Morrish’s ideas?

__8. This question relates to Chapter 6__ The Wongs and Jones stress the importance of practice. How can teachers reconcile the time they give initially to teaching and practicing routines rather than to teaching academic content?

__9 and 10 Relates to Chapter 7__ 9. If you had to choose between Jones’s ideas and those of Kounin (lesson management, withitness), which would you prefer? 10. How could they be organized into one system that would be an improvement over each individually?