America is losing talents
BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT STRATEGY THAT WOULD PUT AMERICA IN THE FOREFRONT AGAIN
By Marian-Stella Araka, Ed.S. (87); Ed.D. (2000)
This behavior management strategy is simple and cheap, yet very effective. It is based on honesty. As an experienced public school teacher and currently an educational consultant and substitute teacher/administrator, I worked and still work with public school students, and I guarantee that this behavior management strategy works hundred percent of the time, and it also does for teachers who apply my recommendation. The behavior management makes your students appreciate you more because they realize that you have their interest at heart. I never learned of this strategy in my three rigorous teaching certification programs nor in my two educational leadership training. My in-service training as a teacher never mentioned it. Student achievement does not match the billions of dollars that are invested in public school education in the United States.
Here’s my no-cost behavior management recommendation - just be realistic with the students, as long as you do it without verbally abusing them. It is very simple. It involves immersing students in the consciousness of the future negative consequences TO THEMSELVES of their present actions. That’s it. Note that this concept is different from the action - negative consequences which are emphasized in schools. That strategy does not emphasize negative consequences to oneself. No! That is not my recommendation. I am not condemning the behavior management strategies that are now applied in public schools. My contention is just that those are not enough. They do not work for disadvantaged students whose environments are too unsettled for those behavior strategies to be emphasized at home. Their parents are too busy or too ignorant to monitor them and apply the right attitude. These students learn from their neighborhood and social media.
The United States is losing potential manpower because most of these students fall by the wayside and do not reach their fullest potential. As a former Special Education teacher, I am very aware that some students who entered my classes should not have done so. Their behavior problems hindered their academic performance and landed them in Special Education classes.
Some students mature in high school and learn the importance of Education and doing the right thing. But at that stage, it is almost too late for most of them. The learning gap they inherited in lower grades are hardly bridged. Some of them as a result drop out of school, and those who are resilient are frustrated. Very few of these are able to benefit from the available college scholarship. They end up with student loans which recycle them into poverty for some years after their graduation.
Stakeholders to this new behavior management strategy are teachers, school administrators, the entire school districts, publishers and parents. School - home connections through social workers should make this truth a focus. I guarantee the success of the behavior management strategy because I see its positive effect right away in the public schools I have contact with. Also, teachers who integrate it report its effectiveness.
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