Promoting a positive climate for teaching and learning, increasing teaching time and creating a positive learning climate, CMCD® is one of the best attitude and behaviour programmes in the USA.

It compliments the UK Key Stage 3 Behaviour and Attendance Strategies and has been successfully implemented in the UK by two schools in Bracknell Forest LEA with support from the Universities of Houston and Nottingham.

Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline® is based on 5 Themes:

1. Prevention
    Students become partners in the classroom
    Every classroom must have a vision and a plan
    Clear procedures and routines for teachers and students
    Students and teachers share the same expectations

2. Caring
    Know the students’ names
    Use seating plans
    Listen to students
    Reward good behaviour
    Acknowledge and support all class members

3. Cooperation
    Teachers share the classroom management with students
    Create classroom rules and expectations and consequences together
    Teachers and students work together as partners or in cooperative group
    Help each other with equipment, resources and work

4. Organisation
    Student managers and planners organize the classroom
    Student work is displayed
    Tools for Learning posters
    Learning objectives and tasks shared with students
    Use meaningful assessment

5. Community
    Build a sense of community with students, teachers, parents and visitors to the school
    Students become model citizens of the school
    Students work in teams
    Good news is shared by phone calls and praise postcards

Practical concepts of CMCD®

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CMCD 3 Fold leaflet