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Reflective Questions - A Sampling
Some of which were originally posted on the
Discipline
Without Stress Mailring
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Are you willing to try something different?
Are you willing to look at this in a different way?
How is what you are doing helping you?
How is this going to get you what you want?
How would you like things to be? (Meaning: What do you want?)
What can you do to get what you want?
Will you?
How will you know?
Is what you're doing going to move you forward—or backward?
What do you want to be like in this situation?
What can I do to help you?
Are you going to let this (situation, person, problem, setback,
disappointment) hold you back?
What are you going to do about it?
Are you going to be able to rise above this (situation,
challenge)? How?
Look at _______'s face. How is he/she feeling right now as a
result of what you have (done/said)? What can you do about it?
Are you making a friend or pushing a friend
away?
What would a ________ (mature, kind, reliable, responsible,
extraordinary) person do now?
Now that you have __________, how could you repair the situation?
When you _____________, what kind of a relationship are you
creating with me? (other kids? other adults?)
When you __________, what pictures are you creating about
yourself in your mind? (in the minds of your friends? teachers? adults in our
school?)
What kind of impression are you making on all the people here
when you _______?
Is this the impression you want to make?
Does it feel as if we're moving forward here, or does it feel as
if we're stuck?
What would you have to do if you wanted to move forward in this
situation?
Can you picture yourself doing_______ (a
very specific procedure)?
Is what you're doing going to make you better in the long run?
Is there a better choice?
What's an example of one?
How might you feel if someone did that to
you?
What do you want?
Is what you are doing getting you what you want?
If not, what is you plan?
What are your procedures to implement the plan?
AFTER
SOMEONE HAS ACKNOWLEDGED LEVEL B BEHAVIOR:
Do you want to be in charge of you or have someone else be in
charge of you?
Do you want me to be a Level B teacher?
What would a Level B teacher probably do now?
Is what
you're doing on a high level?
What will you do to get on a higher level?
Here's an opportunity for you to act on a higher level.
What can you do?
What will you do?
Think to yourself of someone in your class or someone you know
who operates on a high level.
What would that person do now in your situation?
If you
continue on this level, what will likely happen?
Is that what you want?
What will you do now?
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