Positive Discipline approach for Children’s Success

March 9, 2020 Educator's Corner

As children grow, we must recognize that how they think and how they act also evolve, consistent with their development as children and adolescents. Children are not small adults. In school, their actions can easily be seen as misbehavior that requires disciplinary action.
But discipline imposed by teachers and school administrators, for it to be in the best interest of the child, should be positive and non-violent. The role of teacher and educator in molding the behavior of children to be responsible, productive, empowered, and successful individuals.
Positive Discipline is an approach to teaching that helps children succeed, gives them the information they need to learn, and supports their development. It respects children’s rights to healthy development, protection from violence, and active participation in their learning.
The Department of Education has issued Department Order 40, s.2012, which prohibits the use of corporal punishment and promotes the use of positive discipline in public and private schools. Effective discipline is positive and constructive.
It involves setting goals for learning, and finding constructive solutions to challenging situations. School should respect children’s developmental levels, their rights to dignity and physical integrity, and their right to participate
fully in their learning.
Teachers play a vital role in disciplining the child in school. But it needs need support from their school administration, concerned organizations and the educational community. A disciplined child are the ones who are successful in life. Academic intelligence may make a child successful in the world but character matters most. We can develop a future discipline leader if we will start to discipline them now. This could be possible with the help of their parents.
Values should not only teach in school but also at home. The child’s major influences are their family. A discipline family could have a better children in school. They easy to discipline in school no matter what their peers or classmates influence them.
Children learn best and will cooperate more in a warm, safe and caring environment. Both school and home should give warmth environment to them. Giving them time , listening to them, showing them respect even when they make mistakes, encouraging them especially when they are having difficulties and looking at things from their point of view are very important things that we should give to our children. The standard of positive discipline is teaching them with love.
When we teach values along academic then they will be happier, more successful and will develop great leader in the future.
 
MAYBELLAINE JOY N. LANGBIS
Becday Chasoras Lamsis Elem. School-Tublay District