3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue #68, 26th October 2021

Discipline at schools has always been a matter of discussion for me and the school leaders. The students are coming back to school slowly after pandemic and I have been hearing murmurs from teachers across schools that one of the key factors to deal with alongside the learning gap will be discipline. What do you think? here are some points to ponder.

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Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“The ultimate goal of classroom management should not be on simple obedience, but on having students behave appropriately because they know it’s the right thing to do and because they can understand how their actions affect other people” (Hardin).

“Rather than creating rules, (the) students (will) engage in conversation about the type of community they wish their classroom to be” (Hardin).

One Video of the Week

Why do we think urban kids lined up in uniforms, sitting straight, and echoing answers are learning? I experimented with democratic practices in my urban classroom, and was surprised by the transformative power of democratic practices in the lives of students.

Katherine von Duyke, PhD is a professor and socio-cultural researcher. Her research on student agency in schooling contexts highlights the ways in which agents are in tension with, transform, and transcend situated contexts and discourses. Her experiences in education have been varied: she has been a homeschooling parent, directed a cooperative Montessori school, taught in an urban Montessori Charter school, and taught high school science. She currently teaches as a professor of education where she has been teaching math, foundations, and multicultural diversity courses

And Finally…

Dear reader,

I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write.  With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.

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