Teachers can help learning and behavior disordered students in middle and secondary grades develop self control through a strategy in which students are taught to stop, look, listen, and think before carrying out a task. The final step is to reinforce themselves. (CL)

A supplemental curriculum based on the philosophies of Karl Popper, John Eccles, and Jean Piaget in which the self is seen as actively constructing its own reality was developed. Examples of learning activities used with emotionally disturbed preadolescents and adolescents are offered as is information on goals/objectives, methodology, materials,…

The article describes the "Competency Based Curriculum" for the affective domain which is designed to teach children basic social interaction skills necessary to develop and internalize self-controlling behaviors. Instructional activities and assessment tasks are considered for several types of the 11 objectives. (CL)

The article describes the helping styles proposed by P. Brickman, et al.--moral, compensatory, medical, enlightenment--and relates them to teachers' disciplinary practices with emotionally disturbed and other disabled students. Factors impeding teachers' ability to provide discipline and curricular methods that support student autonomy and…