11: Avoiding the "Wait 'Till Your Father Gets Home" Trap
The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Jennifer Gonzalez
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
For some teachers, it has become a habit to send the majority of discipline problems elsewhere: Either we write up an office referral, threaten to call parents, or even enlist a more intimidating colleague to deal with a problematic student. When we do this, we are giving our power away, limiting the respect our students have for us and missing an opportunity to model assertive, skillful problem solving. In this episode, I'll share some ideas for breaking this habit and reclaiming control of your classroom management.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 11 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | In this episode, I'm going to talk about how to avoid the wait till your father gets home |
| 0:09.0 | trap of classroom management and get control of your class all by yourself. |
| 0:24.5 | If this is your first time listening to the podcast, I'd like to invite you over to my website, |
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| 1:00.1 | Okay, so let's get into our topic for this episode. The wait till your father gets home trap. |
| 1:05.7 | So what is this? Well, I nicknamed it myself, so this is not anything you're going to find anywhere else, |
| 1:12.5 | I don't think. But this is basically what it is. It's when you as a teacher make someone else the |
| 1:21.7 | ultimate threat to your students. This would be an administrator, parents, or another teacher |
| 1:27.6 | instead of establishing consequences in your own classroom and making yourself the person to |
| 1:32.1 | contend with. So I gave it the nickname because it's sort of similar to a mother who's at home with |
| 1:39.7 | her kids all day and they're misbehaving and she says you just wait till your father gets home |
| 1:43.8 | and she sort of defers the punishment to him. And I think sometimes teachers do the same thing. |
| 1:50.5 | It's not the father as much as it is the administrator or someone else who the kids see as more scary |
| 1:59.6 | than the teacher themselves. And if you are in this habit, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about |
| 2:09.5 | why it is less than ideal and some ways that you can work to cut way back on that habit. So first |
| 2:18.3 | of all, why is this a problem? Why is it a problem to take this approach of threatening and then |
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