Con-sis-sten-cy

My roommates and I still joke about the training we attended as 1st years in JPS. There were just so many comments that seemed so obvious to us that the other attendees were so proud of. One in particular was from a lady who thought the best way to voice her position on being consistent with your discipline was to just repeat the word broken down into fragments. "Con-sis-sten-cy....you've got to be consistent in the classroom"....I thought it was quite humorous, but everyone else in the classroom thought it deserved applause and affirmation. "Oh yeah baby, you have got to be consistent". Anyways, even after joking about that lady's comments I do agree with how important it is to stay consistent with your policies and procedures.

For this particular assignment we were supposed to try and enforce all of your consequences for two weeks straight and see what the results were. The results are a more efficient classroom. However, you get a more tired teacher. It was so mentally taxing to keep up with ALL of them, and then call home at night. I think it would be extremely beneficial if so much of your energy at the first of the year was spent on being consistent with all of your discipline. I mean every little thing. Candy, gum-chewing, talking out of turn....nothing is out of bounds. If you broke the rule, it's not sliding. It just gets so much more tiring to have to try and enforce these things at the mid-point of the year; especially because you are so tired. It does work though.