Guide to School Discipline: Prosocial Skills Training

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Prosocial Skills Training

It is imperative a student understands a problem exists and that he or she can solve it, albeit with guidance from a teacher. Done successfully, the student achieves an ability to recognize future problems, develop strategies for dealing with the problem and then placing a strategy for improvement in to motion. To use educational jargon, it facilitates metacognition and a lifelong framework for handling conflict through basic problem identifying and solving strategies. Cotton (2001) calls it prosocial skills training.

It is not necessary to exclusively use the Behavior Identification & Adjustment sheet (Karadimos, 2003), but any strategy helping a student travel from problem realization to problem solution, involving teacher guidance if necessary, will be crucial for handling a problematic student. It may seem like extra work to handle a student in this fashion, but the long-standing gains for a particular classroom of students and the benefits from positive teacher perception by students in the entire community will be incredibly strong and positive.

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Cotton, K. (2001) Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline. Online Resource Accessed on June 8th, 2005 at: http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html

Karadimos, M. (2003) Behavior Identification & Adjustment. Word Document accessible at: http://www.mathguide.com/services/Discipline/BehaviorIDA.doc