Summary Of Noncoercive By William Glasser

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Through reading William Glasser use of noncoercive choice to promote quality learning and student self-control, it sheds light on the realities of today’s schools and students and how the approaches that teachers have used in attempting to make students behave responsibly have been unsuccessful. Teachers often times try to force their students to behave a certain way or to do things, but in reality it may cause your students to act out against you and you are still unsuccessful in making the student behaving responsibly. Glasser believes that you get far better results when, instead of using force, you use positive influence to get students behave more effectively and you accomplish this by employing noncoercive behaviors (Charles, 2011).

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