Emily Laurie gives talk at Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline, Dallas, TX, June 2-4, 2011. Addressing Encouraging Positive Discipline in Schools Worldwide.

Pressure is building on Governor Martinez to sign a bill that would ban corporal punishment in public schools statewide. Supporters rallied at the University of New Mexico at noon today, urging the governor to sign the bill. It passed narrowly in this year’s legislative session, after heated debate in the House and the Senate. ” Where else but in a public school in the state of New Mexico right now can you actually inflict some sort of damage to a child, hoping to change some sort of behavior,” Rep. Rick Miera, (D) Albuquerque, asked the crowd. ” I think that’s archaic and that needs to stop, period.” Miera, chairman of the House Education Committee, sponsored the bill.

I’ve noticed some teachers on Yahoo Answers ask questions that I thought would be covered in every Teacher Training program! thought it would be interesting to see what different K-12 teachers did as part of the Teacher Training program. This would also help people thinking of becoming a teacher make decisions about their education.

TWO YEAR BACHELOR OF EDUCATION DEGREE

Entrance requirement: Bachelor’s degree & GPA ~ 3.2

Semester One: two days per week observing classes in a real school, two days on campus. Classes dealing with child development, brain research, classroom management, assessment, learning styles and theories, diversity education and ethical issues.

Semester Two: Still two days of observation in a school, plus two days of classes dealing with curriculum in our chosen subject area. Grade-by-grade curriculum analysis, unit planning, lesson planning and teaching strategies.
Semester Three (Year 2): Four days per week of teaching in a school while observed by a classroom teacher, and one day per week of discussion on campus.

Semester Four: Student-selected options on campus. Choices include special education, counseling, ESL, gifted education and educational leadership.
I go to a top-level university. Bachelor of Education degrees are awarded in two years FOLLOWING the completion of a first Bachelor’s degree.
I don’t know what you people are thinking. ALL CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES (that have Education programs) offer post-degree Bachelor’s of Education degrees in either twelve or sixteen months of full-time studies (not counting summer break). You don’t have to get it from the same university you did your first undergraduate degree in. I think it’s a pretty sad state of affairs when people can’t see beyond their own local borders.

Gaston County Schools puts down the paddle
Paddling as punishment won’t be permitted at Gaston County Schools next year. The Board of Education voted Monday night to prohibit corporal punishment, dropping the number of North Carolina school districts that allow the controversial form of…

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‘Hitting Stops Here’ targets schools, policies
A mother’s claim that her son was choked by his teacher helped spark events that will be held across the state this month aimed at ending corporal punishment in Mississippi.

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tonight investigate reporter jeremy jojola looks into a district that still allows corporal punishment–includ ing spanking—and one case where a parent says the paddler went overboard….to the point where state police are now involved. he’s a 14 year old boy whose mother admits has problems paying attention in class. but his mother who we will call brandy says her 90-pound son didn’t deserve what she calls excessive spanking at school, resulting in a bruised behind, last fall. he was paddled at san jon school near tucumcari. “i think it caused more damage to his behavior.” brandy was out of town that day but was sent photos of her sons purple behind by his grandmother. now these photos are part of a state police report. “and when i got the pictures, i was devestated.” “jojola: what went through your mind when you saw those pictures?” “i was sick, i was hurt it could be taken this far…i was very very upset.” she claims her family was told the female principal would swat her son when they gave permission. instead the report says it was the coach who swatted the boy three times while allegedly telling the student “if he was tough enough to talk back to teachers, then he was tough enough to take the swats.” because of the bruising and because her son cried after the first swat, the investigating officer concluded in his report the paddling “could have been excessive” but also noted it did not effect his mobility, and that permission for the swatting was granted by the …

Rules a crimp in schools’ plans
In one corner of a classroom at Schilling-Douglas School of Hair Design this week, two women crimped and curled the hair flowing from wigs mounted on mannequins in front of them.

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A last resort?: corporal punishment in schools;

When it comes to public schools, you get what you pay for
There has been much head-scratching of late over what has become of the B.C. public school system, that once-respected and reliable institution that, generally speaking, did a good job of prepping our children, both academically and socially, for the big bad world.

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Judicial Rulings, State Statutes and State Administrative Regulations Dealing With the Use of Corporal Punishment in Public Schools

Corporal punishment is illegal in the majority of the US, but remains legal in 21 states. Kelly Wallace reports on a new study that shows some children are more likely to get hit than others.

Maintaining Classroom Discipline (1947). Good and bad methods of disciplining inappropriate classsroom behavior. This was a very well made instructional movie for teachers. While there are new & different problems in the modern schools, the basic ideas of this film still holds. The opening messages are exactly what the best research on classroom behaviour tells us:
1. The vast majority of behaviour problems in the classrom involve minor breaches of discipline.
2. These incidents originate in the classroom situation itself and are within the control of the teacher.
3. Disciplinary problems in the classroom are symptoms of underlying weaknesses in total learning situation. BY CONTRASTING METHODS OF HANDLING THE SAME CLASS, TECHNIQUES ARE SHOWN FOR SECURING CLASS DISCIPLINE and STIMULATING THE INTEREST OF STUDENTS.Producer: McGraw-Hill Films; Creative Commons license: Public Domain.

Duration : 0:13:43

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