Working with Students from Poverty: Discipline

From this section, I was most intersted by the little four part questionnaire that was used when students behaved badly in order to get them to think through it and come up with possible ideas as to how to better handle similar situations in the future. It asks that the students write down what he did, why he did it, four other things he could have done, and what he will do next time. Payne then suggests that the teacher or whoever is implementing this sits down with the student and goes over it to make sure that he leaves with a few appropriate ideas of how to better behave in the future.
I think the reason I picked this out of the reading is because it was practiced in my own elementary school. I attended a very artsy grade school, and it didn't have a lot of rules or discipline, but this was something that every student encountered because they strongly believed in its power to better behavior. I think I learned a lot from this questionnaire when I had to fill it out because it forced me to decide what were better ways to handle things which is something I wouldn't have done otherwise, but that I acutally did refer to when the situation came up again. This kind of practice is really beneficial I think because it gives the student a chance to think about what he did alone, and then get feedback from the teacher as well.