Children need encouragement, just like plants need water.
——Psychologist Drex
Teachers often see groups of lovely, out-going children and seek to encourage them to grow up in a healthy manner. At the same time, we may also encounter children who are naughty, children who lack confidence, children who make the same mistakes time and time again, and children who find it hard to concentrate and have with difficulty managing their emotions.
How do our words and actions affect children’s mindsets?
How can we communicate with them to win their cooperation?
How can we guide our kids to develop healthy mindsets such as responsibility, self-discipline, will power, cooperation, positivity and confidence?
When teachers are struggling to find the answers to these big questions, the school invites a positive discipline expert, Mr. Li Jiashu. On June 5th and June 12th, Mr. Li delivered two lively, interesting, practical and effective positive discipline lectures for all Chinese and foreign teachers.
Positive Discipline” (PD for short), based on the theory of “individual psychology” by Austrian psychologists Alfred Adler and Rudolf Drex. PD advocates an approach that is neither punishment nor indulgence in behaviour management.
Mr. Li led the teachers to embark on a kind and forceful education journey through activity, role-playing, case study, feedbacks and communication. Teachers truly feel different languages (imperative language and heuristic questions) have different influences on students’ psychology, emotions and behaviors. We fully understand the nuance between “praise” and “encouragement” and their different educational effects, the reasons behind the students’ offensive behaviors, and are willing to rethink how to construct new communication methods with students in future.
It is only through ongoing training that the seeds of positive discipline will gradually grow in the hearts of SUIS QP teachers where it is expected to bloom in the future. It is through love and wisdom that teachers will lead children towards the education path of kindness and determination.