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The big picture is for teachers to learn how to
use different strategies to reinforce positive behaviors while decreasing the
negative behaviors. Operant conditioning
is most commonly used in schools in which good consequences make the behavior
more likely to occur while bad consequences are more likely to decrease the
behavior. It’s all about understanding which behaviors to reinforce or punish,
and how and when to use these punishments and reinforcements.
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I I think that the most challenging thing about
the concepts in this chapter is learning how to understand how to read your
students. On the first day of class you
will have a lot less knowledge of the students in your classroom and the
punishments and reinforcements that may work on certain kids but not on other
students.
It’s more effective to use positive consequences
than negative consequences in many instances.
When teachers continue to yell to get their students to quiet down,
eventually it becomes something normal that doesn’t surprise or change the
behavior of the students. While when the
teacher awards students with less homework, stickers, or other positive
consequences students are more likely to increase positive behaviors.
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Behaviorists suggest that learning must include
an association between a stimulus and a response, it also must include a change
in behavior (that way we know the new behavior as learned)
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By changing the environment, the behavior may
change for a specific individual. If a
student who is acting up is quietly removed from the classroom, he will no
longer receive the attention from the other students for acting up, and then
his negative behaviors will decrease.
I like your big idea description. Could you also sum this up by saying 'consequences are important'?
ReplyDeleteIt's good that you bring up that consequences are relative to different students (some may enjoy time out because they like to be alone). You're right that it will take some time to understand what will work best, but it will also take an immense amount of energy to specialize things for each student. I'd try to think of some things that should be common for everyone.
Kate had an interesting idea in her post about creating a community setting in the classroom and punishing or reinforcing within the community.
http://p251.blogspot.com/2012/08/module-9-post-2_29.html
Students could earn money individually but also were rewarded or punished as a community. Do you think this would be an alternative to figuring out appropriate consequences for each child?
Is your middle piece, that positive consequences are better than negative, your own opinion or something you took away from the chapter? Why do you think that's true? Also, be careful in using the terms positive and negative. I think you mean, here, positive or negative emotions or attitudes. The idea of something being 'positive' is relative to what kind of things you value. Remember in behaviorism 'positive' only means that a stimulus is being introduced and negative means that it's taken away. You have the terms switched up here.
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