WILLIAM GLASSER - Choice Theory and Reality Therapy
William Glasser described in his theory that humans are drived by five basic needs, which influence their behaviour.
1. Survival, safety and security
This need includes health, shelter, warmth, food, water as well as a sense of personal security and safety. If students are fearful in the classroom and a sense of emotional security is at risk, their ability to learn effectively is impeded.2. Love and belongingThis need recognises the the importance to love and be love. We need to belong and be accepted by others as significant and important.3. Power or recognitionPower and recognition is the need to know that in some way we are important, accepted, capable and able to achieve. We all need sufficient power to regulate our lives.4. FreedomThis is the ability to do what we want, to have free choice. It is connected with procedural justice where we seek fair play.5. FunChildren are driven by the need for fun, and a relationship exists between learning and our genetic need for fun.
CHOICE THEORY
Choice Theory posits the existence of a "Quality World" in which, starting at birth and continuing throughout our lives, we place those things that we highly value: primarily the people who are important to us, things we prize, and systems of belief, i.e. religion, cultural values and icons, etc. Glasser also posits a "Comparing Place" in which we compare the world we experience with our Quality World. We behave to achieve as best we can a real world experience consonant with our Quality World.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_Theory
It states that all we do is behave, that almost all behavior is chosen, and that we are driven by our genes to satisfy five basic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun.
http://www.wglasser.com/whatisct.htm
The Ten Axioms of Choice Theory1. The only person whose behavior we can control is our own.2. All we can give another person is information.3. All long-lasting psychological problems are relationship problems.4. The problem relationship is always part of our present life.5. What happened in the past has everything to do with what we are today, but we can only satisfy our basic needs right now and plan to continue satisfying them in the future.6. We can only satisfy our needs by satisfying the pictures in our Quality World.7. All we do is behave.8. All behavior is Total Behavior and is made up of four components: acting, thinking, feeling and physiology.9. All Total Behavior is chosen, but we only have direct control over the acting and thinking components. We can only control our feeling and physiology indirectly through how we choose to act and think.10. All Total Behavior is designated by verbs and named by the part that is the most recognizable.
http://www.choicetheory.com/
REALITY THERAPY
The Reality Therapy approach to counselling and problem-solving focuses on the here-and-now of the client and how to create a better future, instead of concentrating at length on the past. It emphasizes making decisions, and taking action and control of one's own life. Typically, clients seek to discover what they really want and whether what they are currently doing (how they are choosing to behave) is actually bringing them nearer to, or further away from, that goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Therapy
Since unsatisfactory or non-existent connections with people we need are the source of almost all human problems, the goal of Reality Therapy is to help people reconnect. This reconnection almost always starts with the counselor/teacher first connecting with the individual and then using this connection as a model for how the disconnected person can begin to connect with the people he or she needs.
http://www.wglasser.com/whatisrt.htm
William Glasser described in his theory that humans are drived by five basic needs, which influence their behaviour.
1. Survival, safety and security
This need includes health, shelter, warmth, food, water as well as a sense of personal security and safety. If students are fearful in the classroom and a sense of emotional security is at risk, their ability to learn effectively is impeded.2. Love and belongingThis need recognises the the importance to love and be love. We need to belong and be accepted by others as significant and important.3. Power or recognitionPower and recognition is the need to know that in some way we are important, accepted, capable and able to achieve. We all need sufficient power to regulate our lives.4. FreedomThis is the ability to do what we want, to have free choice. It is connected with procedural justice where we seek fair play.5. FunChildren are driven by the need for fun, and a relationship exists between learning and our genetic need for fun.
CHOICE THEORY
Choice Theory posits the existence of a "Quality World" in which, starting at birth and continuing throughout our lives, we place those things that we highly value: primarily the people who are important to us, things we prize, and systems of belief, i.e. religion, cultural values and icons, etc. Glasser also posits a "Comparing Place" in which we compare the world we experience with our Quality World. We behave to achieve as best we can a real world experience consonant with our Quality World.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_Theory
It states that all we do is behave, that almost all behavior is chosen, and that we are driven by our genes to satisfy five basic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun.
http://www.wglasser.com/whatisct.htm
The Ten Axioms of Choice Theory1. The only person whose behavior we can control is our own.2. All we can give another person is information.3. All long-lasting psychological problems are relationship problems.4. The problem relationship is always part of our present life.5. What happened in the past has everything to do with what we are today, but we can only satisfy our basic needs right now and plan to continue satisfying them in the future.6. We can only satisfy our needs by satisfying the pictures in our Quality World.7. All we do is behave.8. All behavior is Total Behavior and is made up of four components: acting, thinking, feeling and physiology.9. All Total Behavior is chosen, but we only have direct control over the acting and thinking components. We can only control our feeling and physiology indirectly through how we choose to act and think.10. All Total Behavior is designated by verbs and named by the part that is the most recognizable.
http://www.choicetheory.com/
REALITY THERAPY
The Reality Therapy approach to counselling and problem-solving focuses on the here-and-now of the client and how to create a better future, instead of concentrating at length on the past. It emphasizes making decisions, and taking action and control of one's own life. Typically, clients seek to discover what they really want and whether what they are currently doing (how they are choosing to behave) is actually bringing them nearer to, or further away from, that goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Therapy
Since unsatisfactory or non-existent connections with people we need are the source of almost all human problems, the goal of Reality Therapy is to help people reconnect. This reconnection almost always starts with the counselor/teacher first connecting with the individual and then using this connection as a model for how the disconnected person can begin to connect with the people he or she needs.
http://www.wglasser.com/whatisrt.htm
MY THOUGHTS
William Glasser's theories are very well repected and well known. He bases his theory on the five basic needs. Since learning of this theory i feel i have a greater understanding of how students learn and how they develop. If one of the 5 survival needs is missing the student is likely to act up and want attention and this would destract from teaching, so it is vital that all students have all 5 needs to prevent any misbehavior.
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