Fast Facts
- In order for there to be a healthy society, teachers must nurture and develop social interests
- Beliefs teachers should subscribe to for this theory: equality of all people, freedom of decision-making, belief in worth and dignity of every person, people can be trusted to make wise decisions
- Students are social beings who want to belong and accepted in society
- Forego rewards and punishments
- Provide logical consequences for misbehaviors
- Mistaken goals
- Attention getting
- Power seeking
- Revenge
- Feelings of inadequacy
- Logical consequences- prior to providing logical consequences, teachers have to establish simple, specific classroom rules
- Encouragement rather than praise- students begin to become dependent on extrinsic rewards and praise
- Encouragement keeps students on task and minimizes student disruption
- Students should help develop classroom rules
- Democratic rather than autocratic
- Students from different cultures respond differently to the identification of their mistaken goals
- Four key concepts:
- Mistaken goals
- Democratic teaching
- Encouragement
- Logical consequences
Lesson Plan Outline
Warm Up: 5-7 minutes
- The Self-Worth Exercise
- 2 minutes:
- SW choose 2-3 words that explain what determines their self-worth
- TW write them on the board
- 3 Minutes:
- Class will add and subtract items based on their relevance to ES, MS, and HS
- 2 minutes:
Theory Review:
- Identifying and Addressing Mistaken Goals:
- Attention getting
- Power seeking
- Revenge
- Feelings of inadequacy
- Logical Consequences
- Encouragement instead of Praise
Theory Application:
- Case study one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkClqz0weW4
- Case study two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZILuL2yrg
- Case study three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tux9BKwX-wU&feature=youtu.be&t=6s
- TW ask:
- How does this apply to Dreikurs’ theory?
- What behaviors do you see?
- What logical consequences could be used for the first offense and repeating offenses?
Theory Discussion: 7-10 minutes
- Pros and Cons discussion
- Step one 5 minutes
- SW be in 2 groups (a pro and a con) and brain dump
- Step two 5 minutes
- Discuss as a class
- Step one 5 minutes
Debrief: 3 minutes
- SW line up in the order of “least likely to use the model” to “most likely to use the model” on a scale of 1 through 10 (details on the slide)
This project was created by Nicole Spreeman and myself, Natalie Griffitts.