Discipline with dignity summary
- Curwin and mendler theory
- Richard Curwin was born on May 25, 1944, in Cambridge He developed the "Discipline with Dignity" methodology of classroom management with Allen Mendler.
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Richard Curwin and Allen Mendler
Discipline with Dignity<strong>Richard</strong> <strong>Curwin</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Allen</strong> <strong>Mendler</strong>
<strong>Richard</strong> <strong>Curwin</strong>• Started teaching in a 7 th gradeclass of boys who were out ofcontrol• This led him to a careerspecialization in schooldiscipline• Classroom teacher, universityprofessor, private consultant<strong>and</strong> writer• Wrote Rediscovering Hope: OurGreatest Teaching Strategy
<strong>Allen</strong> <strong>Mendler</strong>• born 1949• Doctorate in Psychology• served as a schoolpsychologist <strong>and</strong> psychoeducationalconsultant• Author <strong>and</strong> co-author of manybooks on discipline <strong>and</strong>classroom management(Motivating Students WhoDon’t Care)• Co-authored the book AsTough As Necessary with<strong>Curwin</strong>
Dignity• Dignity is the state of beingworthy,
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Richard Curwin
American educationist (1944–2018)
Richard Curwin (May 25, 1944 - December 26, 2018[1]) was an expert in the fields of school discipline and classroom management, and taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, San Francisco State University and David Yellin College in Jerusalem.
Biography
Richard Curwin was born on May 25, 1944, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he attended Brookline High School. He received his B.A. in English at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his MA in education at the Boston State College (now known as University of Massachusetts Boston) and then returned to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he received his Ed.D.[2] He taught seventh grade English and a class for emotionally disturbed children, and later served as a professor of education at the State University of New York at Geneseo, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and the San Francisco State University.
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- Bib ID:
- 5500130
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Curwin, Richard L
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED302938
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- Description:
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988
- 279 p.
- ISBN:
- Summary:
Theoretically and practically, this book helps teachers develop a repertoire of practical consequences to use when students forget or do not know how to perform the behaviors agreed upon in their social contracts. A range of strategies are suggested for creating additional consequences and encouraging treating students in fair, dignified, and individualized ways. The book respects students' individuality and notes the distinction between consequence and punishment. Thus the process and strategies presented are intended to enhance student self-esteem, to invest social problem-solving and self-regulation as serious components of curriculum and instruction, and to cast teachers as professional educators--mediators of learning--rather than policemen. Titles of t
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