Guide to School Discipline: Reality Therapy

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Reality Therapy (RT)

William Glasser's RT involves teachers helping students make positive choices by making clear the connection between student behavior and consequences. Class meetings, clearly communicated rules, and the use of plans and contracts are featured. Researchers (Emmer and Aussiker, Gottfredson, Hyman and Lally) have noted modest improvements as the result of this approach.

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A document, called Administrative Behavior Contracts (Karadimos, 2005) can be helpful for instituting contracts at the administrative level. It includes sections such as: purpose of contracts, elements of contracts, and a sample contract.

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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. (2005) Administrative Behavior Contracts. Word document available at: http://www.mathguide.com/services/Discipline/Contracts.doc

William Glasser Institute (2005) Counseling With Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy . Retrieved on August 12th, 2005 at: http://www.wglasser.com/thenew.htm