The document outlines the Love and Logic classroom management program created by Jim Fay and Foster Cline, which focuses on giving students choices, empathy, and natural consequences rather than punishments to build positive relationships and teach problem-solving skills. It provides examples of how to implement the program through neutralizing arguments, delayed consequences, developing expectations, and guiding students to solve their own problems. The principles are meant to put teachers in control while raising student responsibility.

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2. Love and Logic
Kate Avink, Andria Barberi, Liz Nieboer

3. Pop Quiz

4. Jim Fay
31 years of experience in education and speaking as a teacher, principal and administrator
Saw a need to structure the classroom, schools, and home in ways
that build positive relationships with children

5. Foster Cline
Adult and child psychologist specializing in:
Attachment and bonding in children
The gifted and talented child
Communication systems and patterns
Parenting and child management
Classroom behavior management

6. Theory
You can have a conflict-free classroom by using
empathy, giving choices and allowing students to face
delayed consequences rather than giving them
punishments.
This creates positive relationships and
teaches students to become their own problem
solvers.

7. Classroom Management
Strengths
Puts teachers in control
Teaches students to think for themselves
Raises the level of student responsibility
Prepares kids to function effectively in a society filled with
temptations, decisions, and consequences

8. Classroom Management
Weaknesses
Delayed consequences take discipline
Empathetic responses take practice
Based on years of experience, but not on formal
research.

10. Real Life Applications
How to integrate
Love and Logic
in your classroom

11. The principles of Love and Logic
Neutralizing student arguing
Delaying consequence
Empathy
The recovery process
Developing positive teacher-student relationships
Setting limits with enforceable statements
Using choices to prevent power struggles
Quick and easy preventative interventions
Guiding students to own and solve their problems

12. It’s all about choices…
When you set limits, rather than telling kids what to do, you
reduce the potential for disruptive behaviors.
By using “I” statements in your classroom expectations, you shape
their behaviors by telling them what they are going to do rather than
telling them what to do.
For example, you may state, “I only grade papers with names on them.”

13. Classroom Expectations
Classroom expectations set by the teacher may include 5-7
of the guiding principles described in the Love and Logic
program.
Initially, though, the Love and Logic program suggests that a
teacher implements just one principle and experiments with it
before instituting the entire program.

14. Sample Classroom Expectations
1.) I allow students to remain in my classroom as long as they do not cause
a problem for anyone else.
2.) If they cause a problem, I will ask them to fix it.
3.) If they can’t or will not fix it, I will do something.
4.) What I do will depend on the unique situation.

15. Problem of the Day