To Make Children Responsible

Make them accountable 

“What happens, as a child that you want me to scream the whole time?” Was the question to the teacher on board and eventually led to my brother in the empty corridor to the headmaster’s office. Of course, for a teacher is a rather undesirable, one that only a child rude and calls attention to smells of defiance and signs of the collapse of the authoritarian structure of the class. The question is not only inappropriate, it is embarrassing. It raises the question of management skills of the teacher and requires a connection between the teacher and a terrible and traumatic event in their personal history that can not or have taken place. Ultimately the question of a personal assault on the senses of the doctrine is self-discipline and morale. In this class, such a situation calls for quick and painless to the author.

Since the age of two years, my brother Michael, for want of a better phrase, “had ants in his pants.” As a small child and energetic Tasmanian devil, as I my brother in a barrel by the grocery Turbo-speed hum bars of Rossini’s William Tell Overture remember. Since then, Michael has only additional energy, which won often cynical adults who can not cope with his enthusiasm and zest for life exhausted. Despite their high activity, Michael has a good heart and a keen sense of justice. However, these qualities are not measured in its class. Rather, students who learn quickly to deal with the needs and teachers with respect, if it is controlled or not, are assets to the learning community, and children who do not stay in place while may find to question and challenge the standards are muzzled.

The author was in the Director’s office sat for the rest of the afternoon, where he was asked to examine how and why he had his master before he insulted a passage written apology. Of course, he may have hit a nerve and slightly damaged the sense of teacher self-efficacy. But how can we give candy to children and adults for the same crime punish justified? Is not assume that children are much more resistant than adults?

Maria Montessori once the classroom, a miniature version to society. She suggested that the learning environment designed to create in the class, interactions that take place in society. In society, people are more likely to verbally defend themselves in the middle of an argument. It is from these types of social situations that we learn to act diplomatically, “what we want” and maintain relationships. Instead of silence of our students, we should not point the way to ask questions and express opinions in the most appropriate and socially acceptable manner?

In addition, it is clear that in most societies, freedom of expression is always dependent. In fundamentalist countries, for example, freedom of expression is accepted only if it promotes the agenda of the government. On the other hand, freedom of opinion in Germany is meant by the symbol, such as stickers atheist, foie gras protests, Gay Pride, etc.. In essence it is the essence of a democracy. But in many cases, the freedom of conscience comes with a price if they do not want to support the agenda. In the case of Michael, the freedom of conscience was an afternoon date with the school administration.

Ironically, the goal of education for all children to become responsible citizens, including those who create, we consider to be irresponsible. But a simpler way to achieve the goals set forth education is to give students the opportunity to exercise their freedoms responsibly. For example, the recognition of the inherent potential of a child for intelligent, creative and systematic thinking, and together can promote health, curious to learn everything they need to know in a new context.

Following the “question” I continue to test messages over several incidents with Michael to listen in school. One of them included “talking back” to a professor who was mocked for “acting immature.” Another incident included a suspension for calling another student “Chippy. Lastly, the client mentioned my mother at work, that she thought the discipline would be an effective treatment of misconduct Michael restorative. Michael, his employer, the Deputy Director and teacher who does not have not met for a session of the circle.

Main My brother asked the appropriate remedial questions, why do you call a student “Chippy”? How do you think of it is affected? How has your colleagues has affected? Michael replied: “I called him because he Chippy call my friend” four eyes “was because he wears glasses. My friend does not like glasses, and he does not feel good in their port, but they have to. I called the boys “Chippy” because he has a chipped tooth to beat on other kids, he brought his tooth chipped on it. “The major said,” So you think twice wrong to make something good? “No,” said my brother, ” but I think it is just as wrong as a spectator to be there. ”

The client decided that the best form of punishment would be suspended for all students involved in bullying at school. Therefore, the worst punishment, the so-called “restorative circle” was that the Spanish Inquisition and was like an act of questioning itself was bullying. The goals of restorative justice could be further from the binding arbitration.

Is it possible that our current concepts of education are a bit confused? We understand the goals of education, but try to attend to it later. We recognize that teachers want a lot of modeling behavior and attitudes, we present to our children. In addition, we have recognized that education is an aspect of training, but how? Did we treat model justice, compassion, empathy and the ability to chaotic situations in the classroom with ease and fairness? Do we need to instill a sense of democracy in our classrooms, with pupils a say in how they learn? Do we recognize the many layers of our students? Do we recognize their academic, physical and emotional, or we should consider them as semi-private?

We have also developed the talk “when the” phase, and recognized that the children of individuals with the same fundamental rights as adults are spoken. But every day, Michael finds himself constantly bite her tongue to avoid bureaucratic showdown Michael. has finally begun to understand that his mouth is his worst enemy, even in the midst of injustice. For Michael, the school is a refuge where he is able to express his thoughts and concerns. Instead, he was an experiment in which the survival of the fittest prevailed inquiry and a passion for learning.

Unfortunately, Michael was regarded as half a person in his school. Michael is the little chatterbox in the class is the class clown. He is the child that sabotage the teaching that the teachers spend time planning and preparation, and we look forward to teaching. He is the child of a teacher can feel.

In addition, Michael is the kid with the golden heart. It is strange. The child wonders who are why things like them. It is of little intuition, that the motives of other challenges and recognize the different forms of injustice is guided in his world. Michael is the child who so desperately need guidance in the direction of his passion and energy on appropriate targets.

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The other day, said Professor Michael my mother. He said: “Would this boy a pencil, please?” “Yes,” she said. “But you do something for the” Young? “Do you want in the least, please give it a name with dignity?”

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The goal of education is to teach our students, to help writing a research paper a passion they teach during the preparation for responsible and compassionate citizens to be. If we have no responsibility and compassion model, it is unreasonable to expect that child to do the same. In addition, we have a responsibility not only to model certain behaviors, but with dignity for our students.

compared By educating the whole person-to pseudo-person, we begin to students like their counterparts of equality by treating them the feeling of a “real democracy.” to communicate in a truly democratic classroom, students freedom to express their thoughts and needs. Therefore, through the exercise of these freedoms, the children learn to communicate their ideas through appropriate and effective means in the classroom and beyond.

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