Self-Assessment: Discipline and Learning Environment (page 127)

This self-assessment helps educators to measure where they stand on handling the first four causes of disruptive or inattentive student behavior.

Causes 1 to 4 all have to do with laying the foundations of management, relationship building, and solid instruction. All are related to aspects of teaching over which teachers have nearly complete control and, when well executed, can serve as preventive measures to discipline issues.

The reason for doing this analysis is that prevention and response to off-task or disruptive behavior must be done in relation to the cause of the behavior to begin with. Some of the causes of these behaviors have their origins in our choices, not the student’s faults. As we walk through each of the causes of disruptive or inattentive behavior, we point to the many tools available to address specific issues of student behavior addressed in detail in relevant chapters of this book.

Referenced in The Skillful Teacher, 7th Edition, p.127