At a recent workshop, I asked participants: “How many people in the room have given a consequence and had it make the behavior you were trying to stop get worse?” Then I asked: “How many people in the room have given a consequence and had it have no effect on the behavior you were trying to…
Earlier this month I blogged about the Art of the Consequence, sharing ideas for how to give consequences so they actually improved your classroom culture—as opposed to, say, setting a student off and making him or her even more difficult—and just maybe helped students to learn and reflect and grow. As part of the post I…
We’ve been doing a lot of work at Taxonomy Towers on a new topic: The Art of the Consequence. Roughly, it’s how to give a consequence in a way that successfully changes student behavior and avoids a downward spiral where behavior actually gets worse in response to a consequence. A few rules of thumb. In general…