Maintaining Classroom Discipline

Year Published: 1947

Complete Record: Illustrates approaches that the teacher can use to maintain good class discipline and how to handle “incidents”. Shots: classroom of white junior high/high school students and male teacher, rubber band shot, paper thrown, angry teacher disappointed with performance of students in math insults them, many examples of unruly behavior ensue, discuss the deficiencies in the teacher’s methods of disciplining, same situation repeated teacher responds with good teaching, respect over fear is the moral of this story Contrasts situations in which first poor and then good discipline results from the teacher’s varied approaches. Emphasizes the importance of stimulation of interest, the teacher’s personality, and the handling of minor incidents.