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i go back & forth on whether to discuss directly w/ my kindergartners that i try to avoid the use of punitive discipline (in 2 years 1/week, i can think of 1 time ive revoked a privelege/participation) but, thinking about how explicitly most classrooms discuss that they use it...
i'm realizing it's actually probably very important to hold that conversation. i still remember in kindergarten "flipping my fish" (one flip was a warning, two there were some sort of consequences, and parents were contacted at some point in the structure)
if i remember that...
if i remember that...
then these kids are likely also receiving this hidden curriculum about punishment. if those structures can and do tell them explicitly about punishment, i can and should talk explicitly about why that is not how i want my classroom to work.
i think on day 1 next time we're in person, i'm going to describe to them that i don't like to do time outs, or make someone be silent, etc., but that if we're going to learn and get along here, that means i need them to be willing to work with me. that doesn't mean do exactly
what i want all the time, but rather for them to see when what they're doing is making it hard for me to teach the other children, and when i ask them to stop, to stop. and that this has to be an ongoing deal between us. and try to talk about and remind about that p regularly.
yep. that's part of what spurred this line of thinking. https://twitter.com/themonaogg/status/1264208660927922178?s=21
