Restorative Discipline

Restorative Discipline

With Educator and Facilitator, Anne Burger

Restorative discipline requires a paradigm shift in thinking from all stakeholders, but most notably from the side of the teachers and school management. More and more schools are starting to realise that the more traditional approach to discipline is becoming ineffectual. The restorative discipline approach aims to create a balance between being too lenient and too punitive.

Furthermore, it has as its basis an attempt to find a solution to the problem of bad behaviour rather than just punishing the child at will. In so doing fair punishment is imposed which fosters understanding from all parties concerned and when implemented correctly will ensure that bad behaviour is positively adjusted.

The following essential components of restorative discipline will be discussed:-

  1. Building your schools  community: The anchor is in shared values, which will ensure that the entire school community knows and understands what is expected of them. 
  2. Participation in school community: This must be compulsory and not optional. School is a special place where we all want to belong.
  3. Teaching the school’s value system: We are all aware that it takes a child between four and forty exposures for them to learn something new. It is thus imperative that the school’s values are entrenched in every child by teaching these in creative ways. 
  4. Enforcing the values: There is little point in doing any of the above unless we are prepared to hold all stakeholders accountable to the shared values of the school. If the relationships is violated, the child needs to understand that they will have to make amends and there will be consequences.

About Anne Burger

Anne’s teaching career spans 37 years. In 1998 she was promoted to deputy principal, where one of her key result areas was managing discipline for the entire school.  Anne held this position until she was promoted to principal of Brackenhurst Primary School in 2007, a position she held until her retirement in 2018 . As principal at Brackenhurst Primary, Anne was instrumental in introducing e-learning.  This project was so successful that the school was approached by Matthew Goniwe School of Leadership through MEC for Education in Gauteng, Penyaza Lesufi, to develop e-lessons for his schools of the future project. Anne has a wealth of knowledge and now shares what she has learned to assist and upskill others in the education sector.   

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Wednesday 24 August @ 14h30 - 16h00

Cost R475 per person

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