The+Dreikurs+Model

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Confronting Mistaken Goals

DREIKURS’ KEY IDEAS:

1. Discipline is **not** punishment. It means self-control.

2. The teacher's role is helping pupils to impose limits on themselves.

3. Teachers can model democratic behavior by providing guidance and leadership and involving pupils in setting rules and consequences.

4. All students want to belong. Their behavior is directed to belonging.

5. Misbehavior is the result of their mistaken belief that it will gain them peer recognition. [It is usually a mistake to assume that misbehavior is an attack directed at the teacher.]

6. Misbehavior is directed at mistaken goals: attention-getting, power-seeking, revenge, and displaying inadequacy. The trick is to identify the goal and act in ways that do not reinforce mistaken goals.

7. Teachers should encourage students' efforts, but avoid praising their work or character.

8. Support the idea that negative consequences follow inappropriate behavior by your actions.