Positive discipline aims to teach and guide children rather than punish. It focuses on establishing a supportive learning environment and positive relationship with children to help them develop self-discipline and appropriate behaviors. The principles of positive discipline include understanding how children think and feel, setting long-term goals, solving problems, and creating a warm and structured environment where children feel respected, safe, and supported. The goal is to help children become well-rounded, confident individuals by teaching life-long skills while respecting their rights.

1. Positive Discipline
In the Progressive Face to Face
Learning

2. Discipline and Punishment
- Is there a difference?
Discipline
Discere – to learn
Discipere – to comprehend
Discipere – to teach
Punishment
Punire – to inflict a penalty
on or cause pain for some
offense.

3. Discipline
• Discipline aims to teach, mentor, guide help learn..
• Role of the “teacher” or “mentor” is to explain well
and demonstrate/model good behavior
• Discipline is part of child rearing and is not limited
to situations when there is a mistake or offence.

4. Positive
Discipline

5. Discipline = Teaching
Positive Discipline is part of an education process, a
way of thinking and an approach to teaching that:
• Helps children develop appropriate thinking and
behavior in the short and long-term.
• Helps students develop self discipline and
confidence.
• Guides children to be in harmony with self and
others

6. Positive Discipline is not…
• Permissive parenting
• An absence of rules, limits or expectations
• Short term reactions or alternative punishments
to slapping or hitting

7. Positive Discipline and Children’s Rights
• Respect for the human dignity and
physical integrity of children
• Recognition of children’s capacities and
their right to participate.
• Ensuring children’s best interest at all
times.

8. POSITIVE DISCIPLINE PRINCIPLES
Problem - Solving
Positive and Healthy
Relationship (Warmth)
Supportive Learning
Environment
(Structure)
Understanding how children think and feel
Long-term Goals

9. Long-term Goals
Planning
• What kind of people do we want our
children/learners to become?
• What can we do?

10. Understanding how children think and feel
Long-term Goals
Knowledge
• Understanding how children think and feel
• Tools for understanding how children think and feel
 Typical development
 Empathy
 Observation
 Listening
 Specific context or situation

11. Tools
Positive and Healthy
Relationship (Warmth)
Supportive Learning
Environment
(Structure)
Understanding how children think and feel
Long-term Goals

12. A Positive and Healthy Relationship with
Children
Children learn best
when they feel
respected,
understood,
trusted, safe and
loved.

13. Creating a Supportive Learning Environment
A supportive environment
provides children with
appropriate information
and guidance to facilitate
learning, decision making
and problem-solving.

14. Skills
Problem - Solving
Positive and Healthy
Relationship (Warmth)
Supportive Learning
Environment
(Structure)
Understanding how children think and feel
Long-term Goals

15. • Remember your long-term goal
- Think before you act.
• Find long-term solutions to everyday challenges that will develop a
child’s self-discipline
• Involves building mutually respectful relationships with children,
clearly communicating expectations, rules and limits and increasing
children’s competence and confidence to handle challenging
situations.
• Teaching life-long skills among children and at the same time
respecting their rights as human beings.
Problem – solving