Stages For Discipline

1. Try to avoid confronting a student in front of his or her peers. You do not want your student to look bad in front of his or her peers and friends
   
2. Classroom discipline does not need to interfere with your classroom teaching. You want to deal with classroom disruptions as quickly and smoothly as you can – you do not want to lose your class momentum. Deal with disruptions immediately.
3. Start your plan of classroom discipline out hard. As the school year goes on, you can loosen the reins a bit.
   
4. Do not assume that your class will need to be disciplined. Do not assume that you will constantly need to enforce some form of classroom discipline or another. Have high expectations. Assume that your class will behave. Then teach your students as though you know they will behave – if your students believe that you think they are good students, maybe they will act like good students. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
5. Make sure that you have enough activities and lessons to fill a day. Classroom discipline can start to get a little rocky if you have too much free time that must be filled. Avoid having free time – this is a time that a class can get disruptive.
6. Treat your students as individuals. Know that what works for one student may not work for another. Just because 9 students understand your rules, it does not mean that the tenth student will. Students learn in different ways. All students are different. Individuals have different needs.
7. Use positive rules of classroom discipline. For instance, instead of having all of your rules say what your students should not do, have rules that state what they should. Instead of, “Do not speak unless called on,” say, “raise your hand if you have a question.”