Students wander in their thoughts while trying to nourish adolescent cravings, so naturally they are going to want to explore during school. Intertwining this yearning for academic satisfaction, along with social success desires into my lessons will help the student feel calm, fulfilled, and respected. Misbehavior is rooted in boredom, frustration, desire for attention, self-centeredness, threat to dignity, and strong curiosity. This classroom behavior will be controlled with my philosophy of discipline.

I believe humans are born with admirable qualities, but their surroundings in society will change their behavior. There are many people in the United States with as many cultures as there are in the world, and all cultures constantly change. Therefore, in a classroom there will be a variety of misbehaviors, or breaking of the classroom norms.  When students break the rules, they need help to learn from these mistakes and shown how these mistakes can be a valuable learning experience each and every time. The teacher and student will earn mutual trust and respect over time by implementing strong policies maintained by consistent, fair, consequences. These mistakes will happen less, and student behavior thus improves.

Continual helpfulness and consideration are the two main ingredients of what I believe help shape desired student behavior.  Being constantly aware of each individual learning style, multiple intelligence, and considering cultural differences will help fulfill the need of having good rapport with my students in order to build that trust and respect we need to be a successful team. Since I believe in shaping student behavior, students who misbehave will be tightly guided, and many re-enforcers will be ready for both discipline cases and for those students who do behave properly. Prizes, special assignments, extra credit assignments, winks, nods, smiles, and encouraging words all will be used. The desire for attention is extreme in all age groups and the students will receive the attention they may be seeking appropriately.  

The students I have will learn an attitude with characteristics that are calm, satisfied, controlled, and wondrous. My art room will have a nourishing environment rich in activities just above cognitive levels along with leadership and responsible roles for all students. Extremely intricate curriculum-based lessons will take place with ingredients that were designed by my past experiences, helpful feedback and concerns from previous students and teachers, my artistic abilities, and my knowledge of art and secondary education. This will engage my family of students to the fullest extent to help prevent discipline problems so my classroom is as bright and colorful as the learners within it.