These two can be implemented in a variety of methods, but they must not be neglected. In our surveys, both teachers and parents indicated that lack of standards and inconsistency were the major reasons teachers fail in regard to classroom discipline. A reasonable balance in firmness tendered with flexibility and very consistent consequences for broken rules. Students must be able to count on their teachers to be the same in regard to discipline every day. Teachers become inconsistent with discipline program.
Daily routines lead to complacency.
Teachers who fail keep moving the boundary areas. Nine-Step Discipline Program Identify standards. Welcome parent involvement . Simplify standards to three or four general classroom rules. These should be broad enough to cover the spectrum of inappropriate behavior.