Assertive Discipline The Canter Model

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Assertive DisciplineThe Canter Model

• BY
• Regina Klotz
• Melissa Wannemacher

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Assertive Discipline

• A direct and positive approach making teachers
  and student successful

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Model

• Teachers insist on responsible behavior
• When teachers fail, it is typically due to poor
  class control
• Firm control maintained humanely is liberating
• Teachers and students have basic rights

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Teachers Basic Rights as Educators

• Right to maintain an optimal setting for learning
• Right to expect appropriate behavior
• Right to expect help from administration and
  parents when appropriate

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Students Basic Rights as Learners

• The right to have teachers who help them develop
  by helping them limit self-destructive and
  inappropriate behaviors
• The right to have appropriate support from their
  teachers for their appropriate behavior
• The right to choose how to behave with advance
  knowledge of the consequences that will logically
  and certainly follow

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Discipline Plan

• State and teach expectations early
• Persistence in stating expectations with I
  statements
• Use clear, calm, firm voice and eye contact
• Use non-verbal gestures that support the verbal
  statement
• Influence student behavior without threats or
  shouting
• Practice the broken record technique rather than
  escalating into an argument

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Types of Teachers

• Hostile - hostile
• Nonassertive wishy washy
• Assertive calm, firm, consistent

The assertive teacher is more effective than the
nonassertive or the hostile teacher
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Assertive Discipline Steps

• Recognize and remove roadblocks
• Practice the use of assertive response styles
• Learning to set limits
• Learning to follow through on limits
• Implementing a system of positive assertions

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Rewards

• Personal attention
• Positive notes/phone calls to parents
• Special awards
• Special privileges
• Material rewards
• Home rewards
• Group rewards

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References/Websites

• http//www.humboldt.edu/tha1/canter.html
• http//www.honorlevel.com/techniques.html
• http//atschool.eduweb.co.uk.gyhsmith.assdis.html
• http//webpages.marshall.edu/hardest3/disc.html
• http//www.msrossbec.com/discipline.shtml
• http//maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_
  MCINTYRE/AssertiveDiscipline.html
• http//www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/wagerman/486FOO/ch420can
  ter.html
• http//www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/wageman/486F00/ch4
  20Canter.htm
• http//www.ceres.k12.ca.us/caswell/Disc.htm