Simon Fraser University

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Faculty of Education

THE PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND

DISCIPLINE WITHIN THE BRITISH COLUMBIA SCHOOL SYSTEM

Course Number: ED.A. 487_14

Time Period Offered: Intersession

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76 (May 10 - June 18)

Days and Times: Tuesday, Thursday: 4:30 - 8:20 p.m.

The general topic of Classroom Management and Discipline is

organized as follows:

1)

The organizational and administrative provisions in the

B.C. school system pertaining to discipline and classroom

management procedures.

Reference to B.C. Public Schools Act and Rules of the Council

of Public Instruction.

2)

Organizational patterns of the various schools and their

implications for discipline and classroom management.

(Political, sociological/social psychological considerations).

Some descriptions of what students observed in their 401

practicum.

3)

An examination of the Adler-Dreikers-Glasser approach to

reality-oriented, humanistic discipline and classroom

management. Discussion and practice of this approach.

The topics to be discussed will include the theoretical

basis for this approach, the development of personality with

reference to Family Constellation, with both the principles

and applications of logical and natural consequences and the

encouragement process.

The course will be presented through a lecture and lab-

seminar format and will comprise four credit hours of course

work.

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For PDP students only

Texts: Dreikers, Rudolf.

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arS, New York

Hawthorne Books Inc. (1974)

Dreikers, Rudolf, Grunwold, B. and Pepper, F.C. Mainta

Srvity in the

C1ssroom. Harper and Row, (1971)

Johnson, Lois V., Bany, Mary A., Classroom Management,

New York, Macmillan (1970)

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