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Spencer Kagan's educational research focuses on a Win-Win Strategy and Structures.  His Win-Win disciplinary strategy is composed of four steps where teachers and students work together on the same side in order to identify the student's emotions.  This discipline is used before, during, and after the event to process the emotion thoroughly.  Through this disciplinary method students learn appropriate behaviors as well as self-monitoring strategies.   

Win-Win Discipline

Step 1: Teacher Identifies Misbehavior
  • Aggression
  • Break class rules
  • Confrontation
  • Disengage

Step 2: Identifies Student Position
  • Students will interrupt, show off, annoy others, or even work at a slow pace in attempts to exhibit attention-seeking behavior.  
  • Students will do everything they can to avoid embarrassment in front of their peers.
  • Students have difficulty dealing with their anger because they do not know how to properly handle frustration, humiliation, loss, or pain.
  • Some students might seek to have control by disregarding and defying the teacher's instructions.
  • Students may show they are energetic by constantly moving and speaking.
  • Students may exhibit signs of boredom through body language, disengagement, and disinclination to participate.
  • Students may seem uninformed from a lack of information, skills, or appropriate habits.

Step 3: Select and Apply a Structure
  • During the moment of disruption, the following structures are applied: (1) Involve the student in an alternative activity, (2) Appropriately communicate with the student that his or her behavior is unacceptable, (3) Request cooperation from the student, and (4) Acknowledge the student's position. 

Step 4: Create a Win-Win Follow Up
  • Have a "same-side" conversation
  • Gain rapport and respect for one another
  • Reflect on individual needs as well as the needs of others
  • Create a plan for next time containing procedures, consequences, and appropriate replacement behaviors.