The Ways of Discipline

First off, what philosophies? What techniques? This should have been taught in the classroom.

Now, I personally do not see any special ways of discipline teachers use in their classrooms. Most of them are fairly straight forward. From memory, I will try and describe a few methods my past teachers have used.

a) This teacher would ask the student to step out of the class to talk to them in private. From what I have seen, the student usually stops whatever disruptions they were causing and class goes on as normal. However, the student often talks to their peers about what their teacher said.

b) Think the opposite of a. This teacher acknowledges a students disruption to the whole class. Class is usually a little rowdy afterwards and the student is in a bad attitude afterwards.

c) REFERRAL SLIP REFERRAL SLIP REFERRAL SLIP. These teachers will simply write up a student for the slightest tap of a pencil on a desk. Most of the time, the teachers do not want to deal a student and leave their fate in the hands of a principle.

These are about all I can think of. You may have read these short descriptions and thought of a teacher you had, and maybe you have a style of discipline that your prefer over the other. But, in actuality, each one has their flaw, as I somewhat pointed out above. To me, a "perfect" model of discipline should be a combination of the 3. It sounds crazy, but hear me out on this.

1. First encounter. You want to address the problem privately, as to avoid embarrassment to the student and further class disruption. Get your point across and ensure this does not happen again. Go back to class and teach.
2. You thought you already handled it. Guess not. You're in the middle of a lesson, and frankly, you don't have time for another private meeting. This student does not seem to pay any mind to what you said to them outside. What do you do? Address it again, in public. One more screw up, and they're not going to like their next fate.
3. Office. You can't get to this student, you've tried just about anything you can think. A student like this needs to be out of the class until they can behave themselves, and the office will take care of that. Hand them a lovely slip of yellow and send them on your way. Get back to your lesson.

That is my ideal model of discipline. Usually, teachers just find a way that works for them and put their own twist on a technique. Just like a pro skateboarder or something.