Thursday, February 23, 2012

DD (No, Not THAT DD)...

I found out today that differentiated instruction isn't just awesome for learning, but it works wonders for discipline, too! I probably should have figured that out by now, but differentiated discipline (or DD as I now like to call it) has been my go-to as of late. There are students who just don't respond to a lunch detention or calling the parents, but if you pull them out of the classroom and talk with them in the hallway mono y mono, something clicks and they are the model student once they get back in the classroom. I've been doing some research on disciplining ideas that don't disrupt a class and some things work for certain students, while another method will work for a different set of students. It's really interesting to see just how different the kids are from one another through this concept. Anybody else notice this and/or try DD? Apologies if this was brought up earlier, but I was amazed by it's effectiveness today and had to throw it out there!

1 comment:

  1. Nice! I wouldn't have thought of it in that way. I'm really glad you brought this up because I (and probably most of us) usually get caught up in thinking that only one way of discipline works. I like it!

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