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Time-Out Room in the School Setting

Tania Blažević orcid.org/0000-0003-1082-6378 ; Pravni fakultet u Splitu

Sažetak

This article focuses on discipline and offers an insight into methods to encourage and maintain student discipline which would result in improved teaching and learning. It advocates the methods of positive discipline and the time out room as process which can be implemented to help teachers combat discipline problems among students. It describes the implementation of the time-out room in an Australian school where the author was employed. The author then advocates adopting the implementation of a time-out room in Croatian schools and expands on its benefits for teachers/students. Positive discipline goes hand in hand with the time-out room. Examples of how positive discipline can be achieved at no extra financial cost are given. Time-out and positive discipline can be implemented with aim of assisting teachers and students to carry out their jobs of teaching and learning in the formal compulsory educational system. It also focuses on these methods as a means of liberating teacher assessment from the shackles of being a disciplinary measure. By using the disciplinary measures suggested in this article, teachers would be given encouragement to revert their focus more onto implementing teacher assessment of students for assessment’s true purpose. This is that teacher assessment of students describes student competence in achieving certain tasks rather than being a disciplinary measure.

Ključne riječi

time-out; time-out room; student discipline; positive discipline; teacher assessment of students

Hrčak ID:

124734

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/124734

Datum izdavanja:

15.6.2014.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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