The+Canter+Model

//**__ THE CANTER MODEL __**//
 * Assertively Taking Charge **
 * THE CANTERS’ KEY IDEAS: **


 * 1. **** Teachers should insist on decent, responsible behavior from their students. Students need this type of behavior, parents want it, the community at large expects it, and the educational process is crippled without it. **


 * 2. **** Teacher failure, for all practical purposes, is synonymous with failure to maintain adequate classroom discipline. **


 * 3. **** Many teachers labor under false assumptions about discipline. They believe that firm control is stifling and inhumane. It is not. Firm control maintained correctly is humane and liberating. **

a. The right to establish optimal learning environments. b. The right to determine, request, and expect appropriate behavior from students. c. The right to receive help from administration and parents when it is needed.
 * 4. **** Teachers have basic educational rights in their classrooms including: **

a. The right to have teachers who help them limit their in appropriate, self-destructive behavior. b. The right to have teachers who provide positive support for their appropriate behavior. c. The right to choose how to behave, with full understanding of the consequences that automatically follow their choices.
 * 5. **** Students have basic rights in the classroom, too, including: **

a. Identifying expectations clearly. b. Willingness to say, "I need you to ..." and "I like that." ["I messages don't interfere with the pupil's positive self-esteem.” You are no good, why won't you behave," does interfere.] c. Persistence in stating expectations and feelings. d. Use of firm tone of voice. e. Maintenance of eye contact. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">f. Use of nonverbal gestures in support of verbal statements.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">6. **** These needs, rights, and conditions are best met through assertive discipline, in which the teacher clearly communicates expectations to students and consistently follows up with appropriate actions but never violates the best interests of the students. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">7. **** This assertive discipline consists of the following elements: **

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">a. Say no, without feeling guilty. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">b. Give and receive compliments genuinely and gracefully. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">c. Express thoughts and feelings that others might find intimidating. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">d. Stand up for feelings and rights when under fire from others. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">e. Place demands comfortably on others. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">f. Influence students’ behavior firmly without yelling and threatening. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">g. Work more successfully with chronic behavior problems.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">8. **** Assertive discipline enables teachers to do such things as: **

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">a. Employ assertive response styles, as opposed to non assertive or hostile response styles. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">b. Eliminate negative expectations about student behavior. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">c. Establish and communicate clear expectations for positive student behavior. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">d. Use hints questions, and I-message rather than demand for requesting student behavior. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">e. Use eye contact, gestures, and touches to supplement verbal messages. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">f. Follow through with promises (reasonable consequences, previously established) rather than with threats. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">g. Be assertive in confrontations with students, including using statements of expectations, indicating consequences that will occur, and noting why the action is necessary.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">9. **** Teachers who use assertive discipline do the following: **

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">a. Practice assertive response styles. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">b. Set clear limits and consequence. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">c. Follow through consistently. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">d. Make specific assertive discipline plans and rehearse them mentally. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">e. Write things down; do not trust the memory. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">f. Practice the broken record technique for repeating expectations. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">g. Ask school principals and parents for support in the efforts to help students.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">10. **** To become more assertive in discipline, teachers should do the following: **