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Originally Posted by carolynpep73

Whoa! When did my post put me up for attack on my ability to be an effective teacher, xxxsurroundedbyxy?

First of all, the child I posted about has been in my room for two weeks, however, I have worked with him NUMEROUS times while in K! His teacher would frustrate easily and he would need to come to my room to cool down.

No where did I ever say that I DO NOT do time out. Of course I do time out. My students have a cool down area in the room if they need to step aside for a while, I also have another teacher that allows my students to serve a time out in her room if they cannot cool down or settle down in mine. My students lose recess in incriments of 5 minutes for every card color that is flipped. I have a three strikes your out system where if you flip you color three times in one day, you sit out of recess entirely. I also use MANY positive reinforcements in my room. Students are more motiviated by positive rewards than negative consequences. I have written many a referral for students who cannot keep their hands to themselves or are disrespectful to others. I have to document behavior that is inappropriate. Some students need more than a general education classroom can provide.

The K teacher I spoke about in the earlier post is a teacher I have known for several years. I know her style. I know her temperment. I know her prejudices too.

I fully intend to have difficulty with this student (from the previous post) as the honeymoon period comes to an end. How I choose to deal with it will be based on HIS needs for positive discipline and reinforcement.

I run a tight ship and my students are VERY clear on my expectations. I try very hard to build a positive community of learners each year. I have an excellent record at my school. I would invite you into my classroom any time, any day to see how it runs.

I wasn't aware that I attacked so sorry if I did. I, being a teacher, just know that making it sound like I can do a better job than the teacher last year did can sometimes come back to bite you in the butt and make for hard feelings between teachers so I suggested being careful.

Also, I assumed you did no time-out because I thought if a time-out walking on the bball court at recess was humiliating to a student (which is what you said) that any time-out and separation or making them do something different away from the others would be the same. Would it not? Being sent to the principal is humiliating for many too. Do we stop doing that? In the real world, punishment is humiliating to some and will work and will not cause others to blink. It's just the way it is.

Things are different everywhere. We do the walking a recess all the time. If we are caught giving away candy we would be reprimanded. So in my building you wouldn't have a choice of whether to do it or not.

To Allerseelen 4~
Those were my thoughts exactly. This was made out to be a BIG deal like child labor or corporal punishment or something and my first thought (after laughing) was to wonder what the big deal was. And if I had a class full of kids with parents that felt like some on here, I may have started out the year by laying it all out on the line too. Then they could move their kid if necessary.