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An excerpt from Nurturing Positive Behaviors in Your Classroom,



“Guiding children individually is usually more effective than trying to address the whole group.”  p. 3



Scamardella and Daggett (1997) teach their children that “everyone has different needs and that in order to be treated fairly, we all need to be treated differently.” Individually, what is appropriate for… Continue

Are you a new teacher? Are you struggling with discipline and classroom management?

To many teachers, discipline means to punish, but does punishment transform the misbehavior? Does it work?

Discipline means to teach. Rather than detention and missing recess, positive child guidance focuses on both the weaknesses and strengths of each child and then teaches the specific skills necessary to be successful in the classroom. It is time to discard the traditional paradigm…

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