Take the punishments you reach for when you are tired and under pressure, and replace them one by one with responses that teach — in real classroom scenarios.
By the end, you can
replace your own go-to punishments with positive-discipline responses for lateness, missing work, backchat and fighting.
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Swap Your Go-To Punishments for Positive Discipline
Your go-to list
Every teacher has responses they reach for without thinking. Stand outside. Detention. Shouting across the room.
On a hot Thursday with a full class they feel necessary. But if the same learners do the same things every week, the go-to is not working.
Here you swap your go-tos, one at a time, for responses that teach. 🔄
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Apply the four stages to three school incidents — a fight at break, a knife in a bag and a parent shouting in the corridor — and see what each stage asks you to do.
Test your instincts on realistic school situations — WhatsApp groups, play-fights, a teacher's put-down, a leaked photo — and learn to sort violence from conflict, and what to do first.
A parent threatens you at the gate. A learner posts a video of you. A colleague will not stop. Work through real school scenarios and choose the response that protects you — without overstepping.
Map who you tell, who acts and who follows up when something goes wrong at your school. Work through real scenarios and find the gaps where incidents fall through the cracks.
Look honestly at what stresses you at school, how you react and what it costs, then build a short personal plan with warning signs, resets and the people you can turn to for support.
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Swap Your Go-To Punishments for Positive Discipline
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