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By DAPHNE HITCHINSON Rappahannock !N«»w* Staff Writer Helen Rolfe, former high school English instructor and full-time lecturer for the Virginia Education Association, offered Rappahannock teachers logical, common sense suggestions on getting kids to behave in a recent two-day workshop on classroom discipline held at the elementary school. Before parents shudder at the spectre of unruly students challenging teachers and defying principals, there’s no cause for alarm: discipline in the county’s public schools is intact.
"But the most effective approach to discipline is a preventive approach,” explained superintendent Robert Estabrook. "We have no extreme discipline problems and to ensure that we won’t have them, we scheduled this kind of workshop."
A cooperative endeavor sponsored by the Rappahannock County Education Association and school administration, the workshop was aimed at keeping kids in line rather than getting them back in line.
And the lessons Rolfe offered teachers during the three-hour workshop aren't just limited to the classroom. Mothers and fathers can apply her ideas on assertive discipline equally as well in the home.
In the first hour-and-a-half session. Rolfe detailed the three basic response styles teachers use with children — n on-assertive, hostile and assertive—and divided the audience into groups to dramatize confrontations illustrating the three styles.
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