I can definitely see how disciplining is exhausting and can make a teacher cranky at the end of the day. Dealing with discipline on your own terms and using short interactions seems like it would take off a lot of stress. Plus, the kids can sense when you're stressed and it usually has a negative effect on them as well.
I also found the idea of asking a problem student to do work or behave for me to be helpful. I have a student who came from living with an abusive father and is now living in a shelter home. His reading level is 2 grade levels below average and his self-confidence is really low. He even wrote that when he grew up he wanted to be a high school dropout. I'm hoping that this method will at least get him to try instead of just giving up right away because he thinks it will be too hard for him. I am going to try this along with the one sentence intervention, but if he continues on this path, I can't see how he will make it to the next grade level. But, at the same time, holding him back would have such a negative effect on his self-confidence. What do you do in this situation?
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I'm interested to see how the one-sentence intervention works with this student.
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