Hi, educators!
As a teacher, you may have punished your students. The punishment you give to students may have reasons. For example, your students break the rules, or your students do not do homework, or your students make noise in the classroom, or your students do not pay attention to your explanation, and others.
Then, is punishment to the students need to be given? I think the punishment to students is permissible, provided that is done the right way. Never give physical or mental punishment to your students. Physical punishment for example hitting a student with your hand, or you slap him/her. Mental punishment for example by verbal violence.
Physical and verbal punishment is a punishment once practiced by previous teachers. This practice seems to be inherited to the teacher of the present generation. This perception must be changed. Giving punishment to students must be an educational punishment.
How to give punishment to educate?
There are many ways you can do it. Based on my experience, I punish my students according to the level of their mistakes. For example students are not disciplined (late coming to school or rarely attend school), then I will ask what problems faced by students. There may be certain reasons that cause students to become undisciplined. Speaking from the heart to the troubled students will awaken the students to understand their mistakes slowly. If it does not work? I will coordinate with their parents.
If the students dress unkempt or long haired (male students here are required to have short hair, this is our culture), then I will remind the student. I will order the students to straighten his clothes immediately, while the long haired students, I will warn them to cut their hair. If the student is still doing the same thing, then I will hand the student over to the barber. The tidiness of clothing and self is part of the cleanliness.
Then what about cheating students? I will punish the student with a reduced score. If the student fails to follow my lesson, I will hold a remedial for these students.
If there are students who make trouble in class, then I will advise the student. If the student is still making trouble, then I will move the student to sit in front of me.
Then what about the students who made a big mistake? For example students fighting, students smoking, or students doing bully? I ask for help from other teachers to solve this problem. If we do not find a solution, then we will report to the principal. The school will call the parents of the students, discuss the problems faced by the students, and the toughest punishment that must be accepted by students is expelled from school. This is what I do not expect, but must be realized as a consequence.
That's some kind of punishment I've practiced. How was your experience? Please comment!