The Discipline Coach E-Book

Jim Roberson

• Herausgeber: Independent Thinking Press
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 55

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Jim Roberson believes that school should be the place where you learn all you need to learn to succeed in life, whatever form that success may take. Most importantly, in his view, you have to learn discipline. For Jim, behaviour is the 'B-word' and he forbids mention of it. Discipline, on the other hand, is neatly described not as something others do to you to get you to behave nor even as something you do to yourself, but rather as 'what you do for yourself'. What Jim advocates is a partnership between children and schools, whereby schools open up to teaching children everything they will need to prosper at and beyond school, no matter what career or life choices they make. In return, children will start to acquire and then implement the strategies and benefits that come with self-discipline on an ongoing basis. Jim has worked with some of the most challenging young people in the UK and, whether he's working with experienced classroom practitioners, struggling supply teachers, students themselves or even the police, he delivers powerful, practical, common sense strategies that bring the best out of some of the most demanding and hard-to-reach young people.

Leseprobe

The Discipline Coach

The Discipline Coach

If you’re thinking discipline is keeping them in check, sorting them out, showing them what’s good for them, because it’s for their own good, because it’s what the youth of today are so sorely lacking

… you’ve got the wrong book

The

Discipline Coach

Jim Roberson

edited by Ian Gilbert

Published by Independent Thinking Press, Crown Buildings, Bancyfelin, Carmarthen, Wales, SA33 5ND, UKwww.independentthinkingpress.com

Independent Thinking Press is an imprint of Crown House Publishing Ltd.

© Jim Roberson, 2012

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Print ISBN 978-1-78135-005-8 Mobi ISBN 978-1-78135-036-2 ePub ISBN 978-1-78135-037-9

Edited by Ian Gilbert Printed and bound in the UK

To my parents James and Nettie Roberson, I know the world has not always been an ideal place, but thank you for being my ideal parents.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Caroline Lenton and Tom Fitton at Independent Thinking Press, also a big hug to my friend, editor and boss, Ian Gilbert. You folks are professionals, loved the process, let’s do it again soon!

To my lovely wife, Teresa, folks I’m blessed I have it all, thanks for all the typing and pre-editing. To my children, thanks for the support, Maria and Gemma my typing crew, David and Courtney, sales department. Wow, thanks!

Contents

iii

Foreword

4

Discipline

40

Thinking it Through

58

Self-Discipline

72

Crossover

86

Discipline Action Plan

124

The Theatre of Dreams

132

It Takes Energy to Commit

142

The Art – To Make Others Feel Good

152

Start with an Ethos

168

It’s a State of Mind Thing

184

Driving Change

192

Exploiting Opportunity

206

The Discipline Coach

209

Image Credits

Foreword

How often do you start sentences – or hear others start sentences – with the words ‘Not my ...’? Sentences like, not my fault, not my problem, not my responsibility, not my job ...?

And how often do you look around and wish things were different?

I realised way back in my first ever ‘proper’ job that there were two sorts of people in the world of work. There were DDMs and DMDs. DDMS were the Don’t Do: Moans. They didn’t like what was going on but they never did anything about it. Apart from moaning. In my third ever ‘proper’ job I soon discovered that this is what staffrooms were for.

DMDs didn’t like it either but, rather than sitting around berating the world and all who lived in it for not being good enough, they found ways of getting on and making it better. Making it different. Making a difference. These were life’s Don’t Moan: Dos. These are very special people and should be cherished.

Making a difference, however, is hard work. It means nipping all those ‘Not my ...’ sentences in the bud. It’s not about what isn’t my fault, problem, responsibility or job, but all about doing everything I need to in order to bring the world kicking and screaming in line with all that it can be. It means not sitting around making myself feel good because I am surrounded by others who have the same complaints, mitherings, whinges and excuses I have. It means applying myself to making myself better each day in order to make things better each day.

And that takes discipline.

Jim Roberson has discipline. He is an enigma. He is a force of nature. He is, in the words of so many of the young people whose lives he has helped transform, a ‘f@*#%ing legend’! And he is very much the sort of person who, as his fellow Americans like to say, ‘walks the talk’.

Foreword iii

I have known Jim for many years now, ever since we first met when I was doing an INSET session at the school where he was based, a school in one of the rougher parts of Portsmouth on England’s south coast. At this school, Jim was ‘The Discipline Coach’. Not in a ‘Do your work or we’ll send for Mr Roberson and he’ll sort you out!’ sort of way. Quite the opposite. Discipline isn’t something, in Jim’s world, we do to others. Disciplining someone just teaches them that they didn’t work hard enough at not getting caught. That it’s OK to be naughty until someone stops you and if no one stops you then just carry on. That the reason you haven’t got that nice pair of trainers is because life is crap. And the reason for that is everyone else.